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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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The Darter...
This was such an elegant looking bird. A real pleasure to photograph.
BEST ON BLACK....
Scientific name: Anhinga melanogaster
Family: Anhingidae
Order: Pelecaniformes
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Description
The Darter is a large, slim water bird with a long snake-like neck, sharp pointed bill, and long, rounded tail. The Australian species should now be known as the Australasian Darter, Anhinga novaehollandiae.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
This is a meaningful buses in the model of Dennis Dart SLF . It is because it is the only Dennis Dart SLF which have a advertisement around the bus at 2011 . It always on route number 208 .
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.
This visitor to my garden yesterday was vey obliging, settling on this chive seed head and posing very nicely
Mating darter dragonflies. Natural light. See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/29173284672/in/dateposted-pub... for a 3D version
How many shots for getting the dart on the reverse of the board? Don't think I ever saw that on Bullseye.
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.
Wardle's buses provide a bit of competition for First in the Potteries. They are now owned by Arriva, but legal ownership is 'Stevenson's of Uttoxeter' - a bit of a blast from the past! This Dart with clumsy Caetano bodywork was delivered to Linkline of Harlesden, but seems to have reached here via Tellings Golden Miller.
Location is the terminus at Birches Head, Diana Road Shops.
“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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