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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
"A beautiful artificial pond that was created as part of an erosion control system, built to prevent damage to Biei in case of an eruption by nearby Mount Tokachidake. Its charm is that, depending on how the light falls, the pond can be a breathtaking turquoise blue color or a stunning emerald green. The blue color of the pond, for which it is known, has not been fully explained but is attributed to the presence of aluminum hydroxide in the water that reflects the shorter wavelength blue light the same way the earth’s atmosphere does."
INODA - 07 eases along the Morganza levee with a 5mph restriction. The Mississippi River has overflowed its banks to the Morganza Spillway and is being held back by this levee and flood control system. Corp of Engineers stuck a hundred no parking signs everywhere along the road, so it ruins the shot. Oh well.
This is the companion photo to the prior one I posted.
On the same frosty clear early winter (technically still fall) morning an Anchorage Yard crew shoves a cut of 189-series 89 ft flat cars loaded with assorted military vehicles that came down overnight from Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks into the new railhead facility. The crew is using GP38u 2004 which is still dressed in its bright blue and yellow 1980s 'Alaska Bold' scheme. The geep came to the Alaska Railroad in 1986 after being rebuilt from an ex Conrail straight GP38 originally blt. Sep. 1969 as PC 7773.
Cut out of virgin forest adjacent the little used old yard, the $15 million dollar facility opened the prior year. The following information comes from the US Air Force's Military Construction Program Fiscal Year 2011 Budget Estimates justification data submitted to congress February 2010.
Description of Proposed Construction: Construct a railhead complex to include
loading/unloading rail spurs, loading/unloading ramps and staging area for
marshaling tactical vehicles, a container transfer pad, shipping and receiving
building, security fencing, connection to energy monitoring and control systems
(EMCS), and building information systems.
Supporting facilities will include:
utilities, gates, storm drainage, information systems, lighting, site improvements
and information systems. Heating will be provided by a self contained unit.
Mechanical ventilation will be provided for in all areas. This project will comply
with DoD antiterrorism force protection requirements per unified facilities
criteria.
Requirement: This project will support Airborne Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) and
Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) air and surface deployments, as a rail receiving
and shipping hub for all of Alaska Army Units. The SBCT stationed at Ft Wainwright,
and the Airborne Combat Team require a rail facility to allow equipment to be
shipped by rail to and from the Port of Anchorage. Fort Richardson supports Fort
Wainwright during surface deployment operations and re-deployments. The new rail operations facility will increase the installation's railcar handling capability by
300 percent. Existing capability is about 30 railcars per day; after completion Fort Richardson will have the loading tracks and supporting infrastructure to handle the required 80-100 railcars per day. The need is due to both transformation of the Army forces structure and also changes in the nature of the mission.
Current Situation: The existing facilities consist of lightweight rail and two inadequate end ramps in the warehouse loop area. Current infrastructure will not support required throughput for surface movement required by US Army Alaska. The Stryker vehicle loading and increased movements of both brigades in Alaska is such that rapid rail bed deterioration will occur if the rail system is not upgraded and the facilities augmented with new more substantial facilities and equipment.
Impact if not provided: The existing facilities are not able to meet US Army Alaska's requirement to deploy the Army Units in Alaska within the specified timelines. Rail capability must be provided, at a minimum, which can handle trainsof 80-100 railcar units to/from Fort Wainwright, and other locations throughout
Alaska.
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson
Anchorage, Alaska
Friday November 30, 2012
Gyulbudaghian's Nebula(in left- bottom corner) is a little-known variable reflection nebula, similar to Hubble's variable nebula.
t the heart of the Herbig-Haro object lies the variable Herbig AbBe pre-main sequence star PV Cep. This is a newly formed star that is surrounded by a rotating disk of material. At right angles to this disk are two jets of material, streaming away from the star at high speeds. We see the effects of one of these jets on the north side of PV Cep as the stream of material meets the surrounding gas in the interstellar medium. The jet to the south is obscured by a dark nebula (producing an absorption of over 3 magnitudes) (text: www.skyhound.com/observing/archives/oct/GM_1-29.html )
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 = 46* 900 seconds, RGB = 15 * 600 seconds in each filter, bin.1. Total of 23 hours.
FWHM source (in the filter L) 2.26″-3.14″, Sum in L channel - 2.60"
The height above the horizon from 72 ° to 52 °, scale = 1.01"/ pixel.
Processed Pixinsight 1.8 and Photoshop CS6
Rolling down the main at RAF Fairford for departure is the Royal Air Force Boeing RC 135W Rivet Joint - ZZ665 which has been displayed in the static park.
Departing Prestwick is this PDG Eurocopter EC135.
The Eurocopter EC135 (now Airbus Helicopters H135) is a twin-engine civil light utility helicopter produced by Airbus Helicopters (formerly known as Eurocopter). It is capable of flight under instrument flight rules (IFR) and is outfitted with a digital automatic flight control system (AFCS).The Eurocopter EC135 (now Airbus Helicopters H135) is a twin-engine civil light utility helicopter produced by Airbus Helicopters (formerly known as Eurocopter). It is capable of flight under instrument flight rules (IFR) and is outfitted with a digital automatic flight control system (AFCS).
Former UP SD40 3048. Sold by UP to WC/Oxford Leasing and leased to W&LE in late 1992. Purchased by W&LE in 1997 then sold to CIT Financial and leased to the W&LE. Unit was rebuilt by W&LE with Q-Tron excitation control system December 1998. Painted in latest version of W&LE black with large orange lettering and numbers. Unit has dynamic braking and is equipped with Canac Controltac LT remote control system.
Wheeling Lake Erie 3048 headed East through Sherrodsville fall/winter 2005. Photo was taken with 35mm film and scanned to computer.
Manufacturers: Grumman
Operators: US Navy, VAW-120 "Greyhawks" NAS Oceana, Norfolk, VA
Type: E-2C Hawkeye (164492/ 627) Naval Airborne warning and control system (AWACS)
Event/ Location: 2005 Air SHow, NAS Oceana, Norfolk, VA
Comment: The Hawkeye known as “The eyes of the Fleet” is always looking out for threats to the aircraft or their Carrier. It carries a radar dome on its back encasing the powerful electronic equipment similar to the E-3 Sentry aircraft. Being a large aircraft she is able to fold her wings when stored on board at sea. Note she has almost completed unfolding her wings to the flying position as she taxi's to access the runway for takeoff. Photo by my son William John Jardim.
Introduced in 1956 as 1500v DC suburban stock for the London Liverpool Street to Southend Victoria route the class 307s were all converted to 25kv AC in 1960-61 when the route was upgraded to AC electrification standards. Mass withdrawals started in 1990 as they were being replaced by newer class 321 units on the Southend Victoria route out of Liverpool Street and by June 1990 their days on the London commuter run had ended with all 32 sets withdrawn. Four units were reprieved and hastily refurbished for use on the newly electrified Doncaster to Leeds local services but only as a stop gap while WYPTE awaited delivery of a small fleet of class 321/9's. Of the four sets seen here stored in Burton Dassett Yard at MOD Kineton 307 105 on the right is in WYPTE livery while the other sets; 307 129, 125 and 131 are in BR blue & grey or NSE red, white and blue livery.
In 1993 the Engineering Development Unit at Derby Research Centre converted two class 307 DTSO (Driving Trailer Second Open) vehicles to PCV's (Propelling Control Vehicles) the two prototypes proved very successful and a further 43 were converted by Hunslet-Barclay, Caledonia Works, Kilmarnock in 1994-96. Their use being on parcels and mail trains where propelling moves could be controlled by a driver riding in the PCV cab operating a system known as PACS (Propelling Advisory Control System). Of the 64 class 307 DTSO vehicles 45 became PCV vans with seating and windows removed and roller shutter doors fitted and renumbered as NPCCS vehicles 94300 to 94345 TOPS Code NAA. The unusable intermediate motor coaches and trailer cars mostly went for scrap.
Small one-bird short range fighter equipped with Electrosplosive Graviton Grenade cannons and peck-and-shoot control system.
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Manufacturer: General Motors Company (GM), Cadillac Motor Car Division, Detroit, Michigan - USA
Type: Series Sixty Special 57-60S Fleetwood 4-door Hardtop Sedan
Production time: October 1956 - November 1957
Production outlet: 24,000
Engine: 5972cc GM Cadillac V-8 365 OHV valve-in-head
Power: 300 bhp / 4.800 rpm
Torque: 542 Nm / 2.800 rpm
Drivetrain: rear wheels
Speed: 187 km/h
Curb weight: 2390 kg
Wheelbase: 133 inch
Chassis: GM C-body X-frame chassis with box beams and an all-steel body (by Fleewood Metal Body Co., Fleetwood (Pennsylvania)
Steering: Saginaw circulatory power-assisted
Gearbox: GM Hydra-Matic four-speed automatic / column steering shift
Clutch: not applicable
Carburettor: Carter WCFB 24795 downdraft 4-barrel
Fuel tank: 76 liter
Electric system: Delco 12 Volts
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, sway bar, coil springs + hydraulic telescopic shock absorbers
Suspension rear: longitudinal shear arms, stabilizer triangle, longitudinal semi-elliptic leaf springs + hydraulic telescopic shock absorbers
Rear axle: live semi-floating type
Differential: hypoid
Wheels: 15 inch
Tires: 8.20 x 15
Options: air suspension, anodized-gold “Sabre Spoke” wheels (by alcoa/Kelsey Hayes and standard on the Eldorado model), anodized gold grille, whitewall tires, pre-selector radio, 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, a gold finish grille, a four-way electrically power bench seat, an Autronic eye, side-mounted spotlights, fog lamps, “E-Z Eye” tinted glass, two-tone colouring
* street find in a low sunset ☺☺!
Special:
- The Cadillac Sixty Special name has been used by Cadillac to denote a special model since the 1938 Harley Earl-Bill Mitchell-designed Series 60 derivative, inspired by the space program and the era of jet engines.
- The European export model (January 1957 - November 1957) has slightly less power: 275 bhp / 4.600 rpm - 515 Nm / 2.800 rpm (no torque-converter) - Rochester 7010100 4-barrel carburettor.
- This sixth generation Series Sixty Special Fleetwood (1957-1958), designed by Bill Mitchell, was only available as this 4-door Sedan and assembled at the Detroit Assembly, Detroit (Michigan).
- It came standard with knobby, P-38 inspired tail fins, radio, electric windshield washers, heater, leather interior, full carpeting (also in the trunk area), power steering, power brakes, power seats and power windows.
Union Pacific GP40N 1337 splits the US&S H-2 searchlight signals that protect the east end of Clinton Jct. on UP's Harvard Subdivision.
Sporting "Baby Wings", the GP40N is something of a baby itself, having been the first GP40N released from UP's "Modernization Program" just six months prior to this October 2016 scene. The "N" in the locomotive nomenclature reflects not just a complete rebuilding but also the unit's use of the NEXSYS control system by ZTR Control Systems, which replaced the Dash 2 components from when the locomotive was UP GP40-2 914/WP 3559/UP 9993.
OSR's Woodstock job makes a move in their namesake yard with CP 4602, OSRX 378, and CP 1614.
The 4602 had just been lifted upon arrival, for ZTR Control Systems to do some contract work on it back at Salford
7/2018 - Altoona, PA
NS 8520 AC44C6CF DC to AC rebuild from Roanoke. This unit is similar to the AC44C6M rebuilds, but uses the original cab with a new control stand, TMV control system, and CAF traction motors in the original trucks. Sold to KLW 8/2020.
DHC-8-100/200
Details
Country of Origin
Canada
Type
Turboprop regional airliner
History
Bombardier's de Havilland Dash 8 has proven to be a popular player in the regional turboprop airliner market. De Havilland Canada began development of the Dash 8 in the late 1970s in response to what it saw as a considerable market demand for a new generation 30 to 40 seat commuter airliner. The first flight of the first of two preproduction aircraft was on June 20 1983, while Canadian certification was awarded on September 28 1984. The first customer delivery was to norOntair of Canada on October 23 1984. Like the Dash 7, the Dash 8 features a high mounted wing and Ttail, and has an advanced flight control system and large full length trailing edge flaps. Power meanwhile is supplied by two Pratt & Whitney Canada PW120 series (originally designated PT7A) turboprops. Initial Dash 8 production was of the Series 100, which was followed by the Series 100A in 1990. The 100A introduced a revised interior with extra headroom and PW120A turboprops. The Series 100B was offered from 1992 with more powerful PW121s for better climb and airfield performance. Production since switched to the improved performance Dash 8-200. Announced in 1992 and delivered from April 1995 the -200 features more powerful PW123C engines which give a 56km/h (30kt) increase in cruising speed, as well as greater commonality with the stretched Dash 8300. The 200B derivative has PW123Bs for better hot and high performance. From the second quarter of 1996 all Dash 8s delivered have been fitted with a computer controlled noise and vibration suppression system (or NVS). To reflect this the designation was changed to Dash 8Q (Q for `quiet'). In 1998 that was changed again to Dash 8 Q200 when a new interior was introduced.
Powerplants
100 - Two 1490kW (2000shp) Pratt & Whitney Canada PW120A turboprops driving four blade constant speed Hamilton Standard propellers. 100B - Two 1605kW (2150shp) PW121As. 200 - Two 1605kW (2150shp) PW123Cs in 200A, or two PW123Ds in 200B.
Performance
100A - Max cruising speed 490km/h (265kt), long range cruising speed 440km/h (237kt). Initial rate of climb 1560ft/min. Range with full passenger load, fuel and reserves 1520km (820nm), range with a 2720kg (6000lb) payload 2040km (1100nm). 100B - Same except max cruising speed of 500km/h (270kt). 200A & 200B - Same except max cruising speed 546km/h (295kt). Initial rate of climb 1475ft/min. Range with 37 passengers 1795km (970nm).
Weights
100A - Operating empty 10,250kg (22,600lb), max takeoff 15,650kg (34,500lb). 100B - Operating empty 10,273kg (22,648lb), max takeoff 16,465kg (36,300lb). 200A & 200B - Operating empty 10,434kg (23,004lb), max takeoff 16,465kg (36,300lb).
Dimensions
Wing span 25.91m (85ft 0in), length 22.25m (73ft 0in), height 7.49m (24ft 7in). Wing area 54.4m2 (585.0sq ft).
Capacity
Flightcrew of two. Typical passenger seating for 37 at four abreast and 79cm (31in) pitch, max seating for 40.
Production
347 Dash 8-100s/-200s in service or on order at late 1998.
Source: www.airliners.net/aircraft-data/de-havilland-canada-dhc-8...
Chesapeake Bay
-was formed nearly 12,000 years ago when glaciers melted and flooded the Susquehanna River valley;
-is—most historians believe—named after the Algonquin word chesepiooc, meaning "great shellfish bay;"
-is approximately 200 miles long, stretching from Havre de Grace, Maryland, to Norfolk, Virginia;
-has an average depth of 21 feet (the deepest part of the Bay, a.k.a. "The Hole," is 174 feet deep and located off of Bloody Point, southeast of
Annapolis, Maryland;
-ranges from 3.4 to 35 miles wide;
-holds more than 15 trillion gallons of water;
-supports 348 species of finfish and 173 species of shellfish;
-supports more than 3,600 species of plant and animal life, including 2,700 types of plants and more than 16 species of underwater grasses;
-is fed by 50 major tributaries (or streams and rivers) every day—the largest of these are the Susquehanna, Potomac, Rappahannock, York, and James;
-produces more than 500 millions pounds of seafood harvest each year.
Source: www.cbf.org/about-the-bay/chesapeake-bay-watershed-geogra...
Crepuscular rays
Crepuscular rays /kr?'p?skj?l?r/ (more commonly known as sunbeams, sun rays, or god rays), in atmospheric optics, are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from the point in the sky where the sun is located. These rays, which stream through gaps in clouds (particularly stratocumulus) or between other objects, are columns of sunlit air separated by darker cloud-shadowed regions. Despite seeming to converge at a point, the rays are in fact near-parallel shafts of sunlight. Their apparent convergence is a perspective effect, similar, for example, to the way that parallel railway lines seem to converge at a point in the distance. The sun rays do converge to the sun, but the sun is much further away than the rays might make it look like.[2]
The name comes from their frequent occurrences during twilight hours (those around dawn and dusk), when the contrasts between light and dark are the most obvious. Crepuscular comes from the Latin word "crepusculum", meaning twilight.[3]
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.
The Metzger Me-16 Hurricane is a twin-engine supersonic multirole lightweight fighter aircraft originally developed by Metzger Aircraft for the United Carpathian Air Force (UCAF). Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft.
TheHurricane has key features including a frameless bubble canopy for better visibility, side-mounted control stick to ease control while maneuvering and the first use of a fly-by-wire flight control system which helps to make it a nimble aircraft.
Stats:
Payload: -1 (6)
Agility: Nimble +0
Range: -2 (550km combat radius)
Speed: +0 (Mach 2.1)
Automatic Flare Dispenser +1
Low Maintenance +1
Good Visibility: +1
Drop tanks: +0
All Weather +0
Price: 64₪
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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CineStill TCS-1000 - Temperature Control System - UK Plug
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°CS "TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM", TCS-1000 IMMERSION CIRCULATOR THERMOSTAT FOR MIXING CHEMISTRY AND PRECISION FILM PROCESSING, 120V ONLY
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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.
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 07.12.2024
T-100 Ogre MBT
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A high tech medium-heavy tank.
A menacing, destructive heavy weapons platform.
It boasts twin AA 25mm autocannons, ATGM, and coaxial/turret-top machineguns. Seen from the front, the chassis looks like an Ogre, giving it the name it has.
The ATGM is able to target low flying air targets along with armour.
There are two variants: G and K. G employs a normal 125mm heavy tank cannon, while K is equipped with a lower range, high calibre 148mm gun. Both are capable of supermassive destruction.
As with most UT tanks, it features a three-tier protection system.
The first tier is the composite armour. It consists of basic armour shell with an insert of alternating layers of aluminum and plastics and a controlled deformation section.
The second tier is the Kontakt-5 ERA (explosive reactive armor). It severely reduces the blow from kinetic projectiles. They are in the form of blocks on the turret and body or as ERA plates underneath steel outer covering. It results in much better protection than simple steel armour as featured on many other non-UT tanks.
The third tier is a Shtora countermeasures suite. This system includes two IR "dazzlers" on the front of the turret in the shape of blocks, four Laser warning receivers, two 3D6 aerosol grenade discharging systems and a computerized control system. The Shtora-1 warns the tank's crew when the tank has been 'painted' by a weapon-guidance laser and automatically activates the aerosol grenade launchers, effectively jamming the incoming missile. The aerosol grenades are used to mask the tank from laser rangefinders and designators as well as the optics of other weapons systems.
For passive guidance rocket systems, IR dazzlers create a blinding field of infrared light, "blinding" the rocket as it's IR isn't visible anymore.
The Arena active countermeasures suite consist of a computer, incoming projectile warning sensors, and shrapnel launchers all around the tank hull. It detects an incoming projectile, and sends out a stream of shrapnel to meet the incoming projectile. It destroys the projectile while leaving the armour intact.
Powered by a hybrid diesel/electric engine. Fast, has good suspension, and is able to submerge completely into water without leaks. Employs an autoloader.
It has it's own air search radar, allowing it to use autocannons by themselves without external assistance. Range up to 3 kilometer radius.
The tanks are also fitted with nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) protection equipment. It includes a mine disabling kit. The EMT-7 electromagnetic-counter mine system is installed: the EMT-7 emits an electromagnetic pulse to disable magnetic mines and disrupt electronics before the tank reaches them. The Nakidka signature reduction suite is also equipped. Nakidka is designed to reduce the probabilities of an object to be detected by Infrared, Thermal, Radar-Thermal, and Radar bands.
A mineplow is attached to the front of the tank, making sure mines aren't a problem.
All tanks are installed with night vision and infrared cameras, with direct feed into screens inside the tank.
The tank fires anti-tank rounds with tungsten cores.
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Cost: 6,000 GC Credits (7,200 GC Credits - Tier 1)
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Inspiration from Endwar. Spetsnaz Brigade T-100 Ogre Main Battle Tank.
NF-104A s/n 56-0760, the second of three F-104s equipped with a small rocket motor at the base of the tail and a reaction-control system similar to that of the X-15. On display in a dramatic, near-vertical attitude outside of the US Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base.
An E-3 Sentry breaks away from a KC-135 Stratotanker after being refueled Feb. 28, 2019, while flying in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. 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. The aircraft provides an accurate, real-time picture of the battlespace to the joint air operations center. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Clayton Cupit)
LEGO X-Pod Walker
I think I knew about www.flickr.com/photos/legoloverman Peter Reid before his LEGO Ideas set 21109 Exo-Suit came out. Either way, the Exo-Suit got me hooked on his work in the Classic Space genre. His book, "LEGO Space; Building the Future" is probably my favorite LEGO-related book. You can sit down and read it with your kids (it is a storybook, after all); or, you can just go page-by-page and devour its delightfully futuristic ships, robots, and interiors--all illustrated in LEGO.
One of my favorite ships of his is the LL-142 Interceptor, posted way back in 2007. It utilizes an X-Pod as a cockpit, and Pete even reveals its marvelous interior here: www.flickr.com/photos/legoloverman/2112234803/in/datetaken/
I was so inspired by this use of the X-Pod as a cockpit that I set about creating one of my own, and was determined to incorporate it into a mech. In this case, the cockpit is the control center and central 'armature' of a four-legged walker/tank. It had to have the right pilot, and after I had determined the white/orange color scheme, the CMF Series 9 'Mecha' seemed like a good candidate. A mech piloting a mech--why not?
Rather than a 'conventional' control system of levers, gauges, touch screens, etc.; I wanted this craft to be controlled similarly to the Umbaran star fighters depicted in Star Wars: The Clone Wars series. In one of the episodes, clone troopers Fives and Hardcase commandeer a couple of the ships, whose high-tech, touch sensitive cockpits respond to the slightest hand motions of the pilots. Here, the trans-orange Barraki eye serves as the hand and foot controls. Rather than sitting in a seat, the mecha pilot is physically attached and uplinked into the X-Pod Walker's systems.
Two machines become one.
Suzuki says that the new GSX-R1000 will feature a liter-class engine with variable valve timing (VVT), which will also have a 10-level traction control system, launch control, three different riding modes (likely thru a ride-by-wire system), as well as a quick-shifter that allows for seamless upshifts and downshifts.
Manufacturers: Grumman
Operators: US Navy, VAW-120 "Greyhawks" NAS Oceana, Norfolk, VA
Type: E-2C Hawkeye (164492/ 627) Naval Airborne warning and control system (AWACS)
Event/ Location: 2005 Air SHow, NAS Oceana, Norfolk, VA
Comment: The Hawkeye known as “The eyes of the Fleet” is always looking out for threats to the aircraft or their Carrier. It carries a radar dome on its back encasing the powerful electronic equipment similar to the E-3 Sentry aircraft. Being a large aircraft she is able to fold her wings when stored on board at sea. Note she has yet to fold her wings to the parking position as she taxi's to access the ramp.
BTR-90 Bronnetransportyor "Ubiitsa" (Bronnetransportyor - Armoured Transporter) (Ubiitsa - Assassin)
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A heavy APC, with tank features.
It is armed with a 50mm main cannon, twin side mounted 20mm AA/Anti-personnel autocannons, ATGM, and a coaxial MG. Also, it has it's own air search radar, so the tank can venture on it's own and still use it's autocannons accurately up to a 3 kilometer radius.
It's ATGM is effective up to 1 km, and is used on both enemy armoured vehicles and low flying targets such as helicopters.
As with most UT tanks (and some APCs), it features a three-tier protection system.
The first tier is the composite armour. It consists of basic armour shell with an insert of alternating layers of aluminum and plastics and a controlled deformation section.
The second tier is the Kontakt-5 ERA (explosive reactive armor). It severely reduces the blow from kinetic projectiles. They are in the form of blocks on the turret and body or as ERA plates underneath steel outer covering. It results in much better protection than simple steel armour as featured on many other non-UT tanks.
The third tier is a Shtora countermeasures suite. This system includes two IR "dazzlers" on the front of the turret in the shape of blocks, four Laser warning receivers, two 3D6 aerosol grenade discharging systems and a computerized control system. The Shtora-1 warns the tank's crew when the tank has been 'painted' by a weapon-guidance laser and automatically activates the aerosol grenade launchers, effectively jamming the incoming missile. The aerosol grenades are used to mask the tank from laser rangefinders and designators as well as the optics of other weapons systems.
For passive guidance rocket systems, IR dazzlers create a blinding field of infrared light, "blinding" the rocket as it's IR isn't visible anymore.
Powered by a hybrid diesel/electric engine. Fast, has good suspension, and is amphibious. Total speed of 60 km/h on land, 10 km/h in water.
The APCs are also fitted with nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) protection equipment. It includes a mine disabling kit. The EMT-7 electromagnetic-counter mine system is installed: the EMT-7 emits an electromagnetic pulse to disable magnetic mines and disrupt electronics before the tank reaches them. The Nakidka signature reduction suite is also equipped. Nakidka is designed to reduce the probabilities of an object to be detected by Infrared, Thermal, Radar-Thermal, and Radar bands.
All APCs are installed with night vision and infrared cameras, with direct feed into screens inside the APC.
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Cost: 2,000 GC Credits
C5A2 "Chernobyl" Mk2 Heavy Tank
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"The Apocalypse Begins With ME!"
The C5A2 "Chernobyl" is a massive beast. It empolys twin heavy calibre cannons and twin AP/AT missile pods, along with a 20mm autocannon and twin ATGMs.
It is extremely heavy and employs a quad track configuration for rough terrain and absolute awesomeness.
It's known to be almost indestructible by ground forces, earning the nickname "Kaschei Besmertniy", a character from a Russian folk tale.
It employs the same armour as any other UT tank, it just has two times more of it.
The first tier is the composite armour. It consists of basic armour shell with an insert of alternating layers of aluminum and plastics and a controlled deformation section.
The second tier is the Kontakt-5 ERA (explosive reactive armor). It severely reduces the blow from kinetic projectiles. They are in the form of blocks on the turret and body or as ERA plates underneath steel outer covering. It results in much better protection than simple steel armour as featured on many other non-UT tanks.
The third tier is a Shtora countermeasures suite. This system includes two IR "dazzlers" on the front/top of the turret in the shape of blocks, four Laser warning receivers, two 3D6 aerosol grenade discharging systems and a computerized control system. The Shtora-1 warns the tank's crew when the tank has been 'painted' by a weapon-guidance laser and automatically activates the aerosol grenade launchers, effectively jamming the incoming missile. The aerosol grenades are used to mask the tank from laser rangefinders and designators as well as the optics of other weapons systems.
For passive guidance rocket systems, IR dazzlers create a blinding field of infrared light, "blinding" the rocket as it's IR isn't visible anymore.
The Arena active countermeasures suite consist of a computer, incoming projectile warning sensors, and shrapnel launchers all around the tank hull. It detects an incoming projectile, and sends out a stream of shrapnel to meet the incoming projectile. It destroys the projectile while leaving the armour intact.
Powered by a hybrid diesel/electric engine. Fast, has good suspension, and is able to submerge completely into water without leaks. Employs an autoloader.
It has it's own air search radar, allowing it to use SAMs standalone. 3 kilometer range.
The tanks are also fitted with nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) protection equipment. It includes a mine disabling kit. The EMT-7 electromagnetic-counter mine system is installed: the EMT-7 emits an electromagnetic pulse to disable magnetic mines and disrupt electronics before the tank reaches them. The Nakidka signature reduction suite is also equipped. Nakidka is designed to reduce the probabilities of an object to be detected by Infrared, Thermal, Radar-Thermal, and Radar bands.
All tanks are installed with night vision and infrared cameras, with direct feed into screens inside the tank.
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GC Cost: 9600 Credits (Tier 1)
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Inspiration from Command and Conquer 1 Mammoth Mk1 Heavy Tank
piping of control system ...
Pic in my Industrialscape Series # 3 ...
Pic taken Oct 28, 2021
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T-120 "Moskva" (Moscow) MBT
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The T-120 Moskva MBT is a state of the art tank equipped with the latest gadgets the world can provide in 2020.
Armed with a large calibre main gun and guided ATGMs on either side. Employs a SAM if air units are too pesky, and the newest AI controlled 20mm autocannon and machinegun turret mounted on top of the tank.
As with most UT tanks, it features a three-tier protection system.
The first tier is the composite armour. It consists of basic armour shell with an insert of alternating layers of aluminum and plastics and a controlled deformation section.
The second tier is the Kontakt-5 ERA (explosive reactive armor). It severely reduces the blow from kinetic projectiles. They are in the form of blocks on the turret and body or as ERA plates underneath steel outer covering. It results in much better protection than simple steel armour as featured on many other non-UT tanks.
The third tier is a Shtora countermeasures suite. This system includes two IR "dazzlers" on the front/top of the turret in the shape of blocks, four Laser warning receivers, two 3D6 aerosol grenade discharging systems and a computerized control system. The Shtora-1 warns the tank's crew when the tank has been 'painted' by a weapon-guidance laser and automatically activates the aerosol grenade launchers, effectively jamming the incoming missile. The aerosol grenades are used to mask the tank from laser rangefinders and designators as well as the optics of other weapons systems.
For passive guidance rocket systems, IR dazzlers create a blinding field of infrared light, "blinding" the rocket as it's IR isn't visible anymore.
The Arena active countermeasures suite consist of a computer, incoming projectile warning sensors, and shrapnel launchers all around the tank hull. It detects an incoming projectile, and sends out a stream of shrapnel to meet the incoming projectile. It destroys the projectile while leaving the armour intact.
Powered by a hybrid diesel/electric engine. Fast, has good suspension, and is able to submerge completely into water without leaks. Employs an autoloader.
It has it's own air search radar, allowing it to use SAMs standalone. 3 kilometer range.
The tanks are also fitted with nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) protection equipment. It includes a mine disabling kit. The EMT-7 electromagnetic-counter mine system is installed: the EMT-7 emits an electromagnetic pulse to disable magnetic mines and disrupt electronics before the tank reaches them. The Nakidka signature reduction suite is also equipped. Nakidka is designed to reduce the probabilities of an object to be detected by Infrared, Thermal, Radar-Thermal, and Radar bands.
All tanks are installed with night vision and infrared cameras, with direct feed into screens inside the tank.
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Cost: 6,000 GC Credits (7,200 GC Credits - Tier 1)
Abandoned water control system for the old Geneva Steel Works cooling/settling pond. Utah Lake, Utah County, Utah. For the Fenced Friday Group. HFF!
Old railroad signal towers abandoned by Southern Pacific as part of the installation of the mandated Positive Train Control System. Sage Ghost Town, Lincoln County, Wyoming.
ZSU-44 "Zamolchi" (Shut Up) SPAAG
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The ZSU-44 is a SPAAG designed to destroy both air units and infantry units alike.
It employs a quad 20mm autocannon, and IGLA SAMs on either side of the turret.
It can be loaded with AP ammunition of needed. It features an armour featured on UT tanks:
The first tier is the composite armour. It consists of basic armour shell with an insert of alternating layers of aluminum and plastics and a controlled deformation section.
The second tier is the Kontakt-5 ERA (explosive reactive armor). It severely reduces the blow from kinetic projectiles. They are in the form of blocks on the turret and body or as ERA plates underneath steel outer covering. It results in much better protection than simple steel armour as featured on many other non-UT tanks.
The third tier is a Shtora countermeasures suite. This system includes two IR "dazzlers" on the front/top of the turret in the shape of blocks, four Laser warning receivers, two 3D6 aerosol grenade discharging systems and a computerized control system. The Shtora-1 warns the tank's crew when the tank has been 'painted' by a weapon-guidance laser and automatically activates the aerosol grenade launchers, effectively jamming the incoming missile. The aerosol grenades are used to mask the tank from laser rangefinders and designators as well as the optics of other weapons systems.
For passive guidance rocket systems, IR dazzlers create a blinding field of infrared light, "blinding" the rocket as it's IR isn't visible anymore.
The Arena active countermeasures suite consist of a computer, incoming projectile warning sensors, and shrapnel launchers all around the tank hull. It detects an incoming projectile, and sends out a stream of shrapnel to meet the incoming projectile. It destroys the projectile while leaving the armour intact.
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GC Cost: 1400 Credits
The Leo Triplet (also known as the M66 Group) is a small group of galaxies about 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. This galaxy group consists of the spiral galaxies M65, M66, and NGC 3628.
This session was first light of my new ASI2600MC Air camera / control system and my new mount. The real intent was to "kick the tires" to make sure all worked as intended. While simple enough, there was definitely a learning curve. That combined with bitter cold made it for a shorter session than I would have liked. But overall, I'm very pleased with my new rig and the results.
-= Tech Data =-
-Equipment-
Imaging Scope: Askar FRA300 Pro
Mount: SkyWatcher Star Adventuer GTi
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MC Air
Focus: ZWO EAF
- Acquisition -
∙ 105 minutes of 5 minute exposures
Shot at the Lennox and Addington County Dark Sky Viewing area in Eastern Ontario.
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.
© PHH Sykes 2023
phhsykes@gmail.com
CineStill TCS-1000 - Temperature Control System - UK Plug
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°CS "TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM", TCS-1000 IMMERSION CIRCULATOR THERMOSTAT FOR MIXING CHEMISTRY AND PRECISION FILM PROCESSING, 120V ONLY
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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
Information as at 28.09.2022
The bellmouth spillway at Blackton reservoir, Durham. Used to regulate the water level in the reservoir.
Victorian engineering which dates from 1896.
Explanation: This composition in stardust covers about 0.5 degrees on the sky, close to the border of the zodiacal constellation Aries and the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. At the right of the gorgeous skyscape is a dusty blue reflection nebula surrounding a bright star cataloged as van den Bergh 16 (vdB 16), while dark dusty nebulae sprawl across the scene. Near the edge of a large molecular cloud, they can hide newly formed stars and young stellar objects or protostars from prying optical telescopes. Collapsing due to self-gravity, the protostars form around dense cores embedded in the molecular cloud. (text: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap101125.html)
This picture was photographed November, 17-18, 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.
LRGB filter set Baader Planetarium.
L = 8 * 900 seconds , bin.1, RGB = 14 * 300-450 seconds, bin.2 each filter. About 6 hours.
FWHM source in L filter 2.54 "-3.30", sum in L channel - 2.80"
The height above the horizon from 52° to 78°, the scale of 1"/ pixel.
Processed Pixinsight 1.8 and Photoshop CS6
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 - M.Zuiko ED 40-150mm F4.0-5.6
Ein Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AWACS) ist ein fliegendes Radarsystem. Aufgabe des AWACS ist die luftgestützte Luftraumaufklärung und -überwachung mit dem Ziel der Früherkennung und Vorwarnung (englischAirborne Early Warning, kurz AEW). Zu den Aufgaben der NATO Raumüberwachung gehört auch die Seeüberwachung.[1] Die Flugzeuge werden gleichzeitig als Einsatzleitzentrale eingesetzt, um eigene Verbände oder Einheiten direkt dirigieren oder koordinieren zu können. Bündnisse wie die NATO und Großmächte oder größere Staaten verfügen über solche Kapazitäten. Wikipedia
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