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The Saber Dart is a compact, highly maneuverable fighter designed for short-range combat support. Lacking FTL capability, it excels in defensive operations and hit-and-run strikes when deployed from larger capital ships. Its sleek design prioritizes agility, making it a formidable asset in fast-paced skirmishes.
Unlike standard fighters, the Saber Dart features a low-profile canopy, reducing its visibility and making it harder for enemies to lock onto. This unique design requires pilots to adopt a prone position, accessing dual flight sticks and a streamlined control panel for maximum efficiency in tight, high-speed engagements. Additionally, the fighter’s advanced articulating wings fold seamlessly to minimize its footprint within the hangar bays of the assault carriers it typically serves, ensuring rapid deployment and optimized storage capacity.
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My favourite bus in Edinburgh: Dennis Dart SLF, Plaxton Pointer SPD, number 188 (Y188 CFS) and what a thrill to see her arriving here at Penicuik on Service 37. It was absolutely marvellous to see it sitting here right under the Pentland Hills.
188 normally runs around the inner parts of Edinburgh's City Centre and is branded for route 36. The first eco-bus AD-Blue with special exhaust features to reduce emissions, Lothian made this, their oldest public service bus, the cleanest and greenest in the entire fleet. The constant stop-start nature of the 36 diagram means that, while operating between Holyrood and Ocean Terminal, it never gets a long run of any sort.
On this day this must have felt like a dog that's usually kept on the lead and then suddenly let free to roam about - I wonder if 188 still has such things called sparking plugs - they'd certainly be clean now!
For us enthusiasts this unusual working was a delightful treat and even one or two of the drivers noticed the sense of excitement prevailing in the strong wind!
I made a tiny film of 188 leaving Penicuik which can be viewed here: Please enjoy:
Dart 188 the movie!
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1967 Dodge Dart driven by Terrance Underwood during the Saturday morning race for Group 9A (1966-1972 Trans-Am) at the 2012 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion.
Operated by: Dallas Area Rapid Transit
Built in: 2013
Manufacturer: North American Bus Industries
Model: 31-LFW Gen III CNG
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38016 seen departing SMU/Mockingbird on the 84.
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Venerable Dart moth, Agrotis venerabilis, drawn to a blacklight in our front yard. Leavenworth, Kansas, USA, October 8, 2021.
Back to 2013, and another in my "Dart lasts" series of shots, for this is my last photo of Arriva Kent & Surrey 3090 (P290 FPK).
Seen here descending North Street on service 3, it would unfortunately be in the depot workshops on Christmas Eve, and suffer serious damage when the depot flooded. As well as being a headache for Arriva, it means it fell a week short of making the 2014 milestone - unless there's a miraculous recovery (which it's already done once!).
Still, in years to come when history is written, at the very least, it suffered a much more exotic fate than its sisters!
North Street, Guildford, Surrey.
Operated by: Dallas Area Rapid Transit
Built in: 2012
Manufacturer: North American Bus Industries
Model: 40-LFW Gen III CNG
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39156 seen awiaitng departure for the 534 at Trinity Mills Station
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Arriva Kent & Surrey 3223 (P223 MKL) is still going - the final Mk1 Dart at Guildford (3090 having died in the Christmas flood) - and you have to wonder how much longer it's got left. The other Volvo B10BLE will presumably see it off eventually, so the real question is with 3109/3110 - there doesn't seem to be a lot happening which would enable their displacement.
It was good to see 3223 on the 101 on Sunday - it did evade me during the morning so I was pleased to see it still on the route later in the day. This was in fact the last trip it did before having a break, with Enviro 4018 running onto the service.
North Street/Chertsey Street, Guildford, Surrey.
An express courier aircraft.
As the trade in greebles grew increasingly important to the economy of the galaxy, mini-fig hands were used for more and more purposes, as were other body parts. Arms smuggling became a major problem across the galactic disc. Greebles were grown in vats and then rushed to eagerly waiting MOCers to be used whilst the ABS was still fresh. A specialist courier service grew up around this trade and Dai's Dart was part of this.
Llwyngwril Space Systems were commissioned by the Tarren Trade Authority to design a practical and useful VTOL transport plane. It had to be capable of landing in small spaces to make deliveries of high-value items in built-up cities. Unfortunately the designers' search of the internet turned up plans of the Convair XFY-1 Pogo and so they decided to base their aircraft on this.
The unusual shape of the Dart was also down to the architects at Llwyngwril Space Systems deciding to take a spaceship design and stick a piston engine and propellor on the back. The engine used was the Watt & Pritney Cerberus, notorious for needing a lot of maintenance due to leaky gaskets on its eight cylinder heads.
Some versions of the Dart were equipped with drop tanks to increase their range. The nose cone hinged down as the cargo hatch and could also be opened for rescuers to gain access to cockpit in an emergency. The version illustrated here was flown by Dai Roberts, on the planet of Abergynolwyn VII. It was also equipped with a search light and weather radar to help it fly through the notoriously cloudy mountains of Eryri. Dai's company owned 6 of these aircraft, which were always kept immaculately clean. Dai Roberts was famous for his tidy darts.
Although the Dart met the specification for VTOL in confined spaces, the cockpit was awkward to access and the cargo hatch was even worse. Once again, a ladder was need to climb in and out. 137 years later, an investigation by the Galactic Revenue & Customs revealed that Llwyngwril Ladders Ltd. was a wholly owned subsisduary of Llwyngwril Space Systems.
FOURTH WALL TIME...
The main inspiration for this build has to be Jon Hall and especially his chapter in the Lego Adventure Book. I also liked Nathan DeCastro's Skypirates and other MOCs. Lastly, doing a degree in aeronautical engineering and loving the Dastardly & Muttley cartoons must have played their part too. The background story is better viewed on this model's MOCpages page.
On 3 October 2022, one of the DART rapid transit vehicles leaves Luton Airport Parkway for the airport. The service is presently carrying out test runs.
Similar to but slightly fancier than the 1963 Plymouth Valiant my parents ordered when we were in San Diego and took delivery of in VIrginia. My guess is this is in the1963-4-5 model year range. Ours was white with a red vinyl interior, probably had black rubber mats, I don't remember carpet. But I could be wrong. Slat six engine with 3-on-the-tree manual transmission.gr4v The previous Dart incarnation had a tire-outline on the trunk lid and all sorts of wacky horizontal fin-shapes above the wheels at all four corners. Very Supercar. By contrast, this generation were simple and elegant, worked fine and lasted a long time. Plymouth manged to put a 'fast back' on that original Valiant shape and produced the first generation Barracuda, with a gigantic rear window that was unequaled until late 1980s Camaro/Firebird GM pony cars. The Dodge was the higher-market version, more chrome, bigger engines, push button automatic transmission (like juke-box buttons, on the left of the steering wheel.) DSC_0564
The second single on the 27 this afternoon, 4th August 2011, was 210 (N210 NNJ) one of nine surviving members of the batch of fifteen Dart SLFs supplied new to Brighton Blue Bus fifteen years ago.
Unlike the Cormorant, this Darter has a long, very slender neck and head and long, pointed bill. When swimming often only the long neck and head are visible. Hence it is sometimes called 'snakebird'. Like the Cormorant its feathers are not waterproof and it can be seen drying them as in this pose.
African Darter Anhinga rufa - Tendaba, The Gambia
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Mating darter dragonflies. Natural light. See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/29173284672/in/dateposted-pub... for a 3D version
Halton Dart 26 has received the red rear, but still has the plain cream dash, Warrington Bus Station, 21 February 2017.
It's a sobering thought that the Dennis Dart has been with us now for all but twenty years. Even more thought provoking is that some of the earliest examples are still working against all odds. Perhaps the most durable, though not the most attractive bodies fitted to them were these built by Wright of Ballymena, who referred to them as 'Handybus'. This elderly but well presented Stagecoach example is seen at Kingswear bus terminus on the river Dart, with Dartmouth on the opposite bank. A vessel belonging to the River Link company, operator of the open top Bristol VR's in the previous posting can be seen half way up the right hand side of the picture.
I'd like to thank Steve Johnson, Lothian's Environmental Manager for
allowing me to present the following information on Dennis Dart 188:
The work we've done with 188 is part of a wider strategy by LB to combat air
pollution in Edinburgh. The City Council now has three air quality
management areas (AQMA's) in the city - one at St John's Road, another at
Great Junction St and another which covers most of the City Centre. These AQMA's
are established where there are concentrations of air pollutants which exceed
targets set down by European law. Foremost among the problem pollutants at all three
areas are oxides of nitrogen, usually abbreviated to NOx. Ever more stringent Euro
emissions standards are driving down the amount of NOx coming from PCV
exhausts (Euro V has 60% less NOx than Euro II for example) which is helping
but we don't want to wait simply for fleet renewal to get to low NOx emissions.
The arrival of batches of Euro V double- and single-decks is clearly helping
and can be targeted at certain areas - the St Johns Rd AQMA for example will shortly have seen Euro emissions improvements on all bar one service (12 & 48 from Euro II to III, and 26 & 100 from Euro III to V). The problem still exists of Euro II and III vehicles which are not life expired but are less good at the tailpipe than their Euro IV and V sisters. The SCRT exhaust system hopefully provides the solution to this problem. We've been working with a company called Eminox and together devised the plan to convert a Euro II/III into something better. Eminox already had a system optimised for the Dennis Dart SPD so this was the obvious choice.
At the time only four Euro II SPD's remained in service. Two were all-over ads for Scottish Hydro Electricity so were dropped (we wanted something that said Lothian on it), leaving 188 and 192. 192 has the slightly newer registration style so 188 was chosen by virtue of the fact that it had the Y-prefixed registration number.
The system was fitted by Eminox at Marine and the bus underwent a number of test drives on different road types to ensure the system was working perfectly before the bus returned to service.
Service 36 was chosen for two reasons - firstly because it operates mostly within the New and Old Towns, the Unesco World Heritage Sites, Princes St, two AQMA's etc, these are the areas which are most sensitive to air quality levels so would benefit from the technology. The second is to do with the exhaust system itself. The SCRT works through a chemical reaction to convert much of the NOx to harmless compounds before
exiting the exhaust. The chemical reaction requires a minimum temperature to be achieved before NOx is neutralised - below that minimum temperature the
NOx is stored until such time as the temperature threshold is met then the reaction
takes place. Exhaust systems tend to run hotter the faster the vehicle is travelling, so a route had to be chosen where the normal maximum speed of the vehicle is low to make sure that even on slow speed runs the threshold temperature was being met and NOx conversion taking place. The 36 is such a route, with no fast sections of running at all. So the bus has gone to work on the 36 for these reasons.
We've therefore taken the oldest SD in the fleet and made it the cleanest vehicle in the fleet.
My thanks to Steve for this official report.
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“To win a race, the swiftness of a dart availeth not without a timely start.”
Richmond, VA 2011
Canon 5D markII
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broad scarlet, common scarlet-darter, scarlet darter and scarlet dragonfly, Crocothermis erythraea, Vuurlibel
Darters are interesting to watch even when they aren't doing much, it is cool to watch how they can move that neck around. The Darter usually is standing upright but this is more so than usual.
Captain (Capt) Sarah Heer, a member of the Canadian Forces Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART), marks a grid on the operations map. Capt Heer who hails from Guelph, Ontario, is in Sri Lanka to provide humanitarian aid.
Photo by MCpl Paul MacGregor, Canadian Forces Combat Camera
Le Capitaine (Capt) Sarah Heer de l’Équipe d’intervention en cas de catastrophe (EICC) applique un tracé sur la carte des opérations. Le Capt Heer, en provenance de Guelph, Ontario, est au Sri Lanka afin d’appporter l’aide humanitaire.
Photo : Caporal-chef Paul MacGregor, Caméra de combat des Forces canadiennes
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January 23, 2005/23 janvier 2005
AMPARA, SRI LANKA