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Some photos while waiting around on set filming this week. Took up the opportunity to play with my Sony RX100 M3. Very pleased with this little camera. I also had my Canon 7D with me and the Sony holds up very well when comparing similar images taken with each camera.
These pictures were taken with my brand new Tokina 11-16mm 2.8 wide angle lens and I was just having some fun. The location for these pics is the University of Illinois, particularly the Main and Engineering Quad.
This is a one in a billion nanoparticle. It did not resist the extreme temperature conditions it was submitted to during its formation, and literally burst from the inside, expelling water vapour from the pores, thus creating that intricate nanostructure that reminds me of a brain. Nano-brain would be more accurate, as its diameter is about 500 nm, that is roughly 200 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.
The other nanoparticles that can be seen in the foreground and the background did not burst, and were able to act as a catalyst for carbon nanotube growth. Interestingly, noticing this one in a billion nanoparticle among all the others gave us the idea to change our synthesis method in order to selectively produce these “nano-brains” on purpose, as their porosity and high surface area is of interest to advanced energy storage devices.
The picture was taken using a scanning electron microscope allowing to capture details smaller than the wavelength of light. Artificial colours were added during post-processing to highlight the eeriness of the scene.
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The best place to be on the Waverley, and more often than not the warmest. Clydebuilt engineering at it's finest. Could spend hours watching these magnificent engines working.
Standard Vangaurd Phase 3 (1955-58) Engine 2088cc S4
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The Phase III Vangaurd was debuted at the 1953 Earls Court, London, Motorshow, radically different from its predecessor with the elimination of a separate chassis.
Powered by the 2088cc engine fed through a single Solexof carburettor of the earlier model, but now with an increased rating of 68bhp, thanks to an increased compression ratio and no longer having the need to run on low octane pool petrol.
The front suspension was independent, using coil springs, and was bolted to a substantial sub-frame which also carried the recirculating ball steering gear. Semi-elliptic leaf springs were used on the rear axle. Lockheed hydraulic brakes with 9 in (229 mm) drums were fitted front and rear. The three-speed gearbox had a column change and the optional overdrive was operated by a switch on the steering column. A four-speed floor change became an option.
The new body was lower and had an increased glass area, making it look much more modern, and the old two-piece flat windscreen gave way to a one-piece curved design, the car was also lighter than the outgoing car leading to a better economy and a more lively performance.
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Shot 23.08.2015 at Lupin Farm, Classic Vehicle Gathering, Orgreave, Alrewas, Staffordshire - Ref 109-1010
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As a implies of sophisticated solution style, reverse engineering in China are now far more and much more significance in enterprises, reverse technologies, consideration of a lot more and much more broadly. Reverse Engineering (Reverse Engineering) project idea: By way of the...
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Colas Rail 70809 running on the Diverted 6M50 Westbury Down TC to Bescot Up Engineers Sidings approaching Standish Junction.13 April 2023
When I arrived at the bus station the repair was underway so I don't know what bus service was effected. To be fair the bus was soon back on the road well before our bus to Ware.
Bus original owner Go West Kings Lyn registered it in March 2007, then sold on to Stagecoach East but I don't know when that was. Last summer (2019) the bus was aquired by Galleon Travel/Trustybus as you can see from change the livery.
Bus: Optare Solo M950SL
The Cargo, All-Terrain Transport, or C.A.T.T., is a rugged and versatile utility vehicle used across the galaxy for moving cargo of all kinds. With its tough engineering and proprietary cargo connection system, the C.A.T.T. ensures safe and reliable delivery every time.
This video by Tek Domain gives you insight about Computer science vs Computer engineering -- Which is Right for you ? We are a community of tech pros sharing our experiences in the tech world, the successes and failures.
Where the chief engineer monitors and controls the star ships warp drive, weapons, life support and all things critical to the ship and crew. Set used for the fan films "Star Trek Continues". Neutral Zone Studios, Kingsland, Georgia.
Some cool milling engineering images:
Hagen – Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Zink Walzwerk Karusellgießer Fa. Hoesch
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The Hagen Open-air Museum (LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik English: "LWL Open-air Museum Ha...
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Speaking of engineering and bulky costumes. "Iron Man" is another interesting challenge. I've read that it's taken the designers of the "real" costume three movies to figure out how to make the armor work without pinching the hell out of the actor.
So the challenge for cosplayers is to make it lightweight, comfortable, practical, and affordable. Like all engineering challenges, it's always a question of "how do we define the goal of this project?" and then giving yourself the freedom to jettison ideas and features that you "want" instead of "need," if necessary.
What good is a rigid costume that you can wear for about 27 minutes before you cry "uncle"? I've seen people in chain-mail suits who looked — what a surprise — like they were carrying 72 pounds of metal all over their bodies. Hardly happy campers and you rarely see them twice on the same day.
This set of Iron Man armor is made of foamcore, it seems, and it looks great. Would it fool you into thinking it's the movie costume? Of course not, but that's not really the goal of cosplay. It hits all of the design points, it's well-executed, and you can look at it without thinking "Oh, that poor, poor man..."
In preparation for weekend engineering duties along the North Wales Coast, last Friday two Colas positioning moves took place a) 56302 / 56113 ex Washwood Heath (0C56) and b) 56078 / 56105 / 56096 ex Rugby DED (0C57). The following Monday on completion of engineering duties 56302 'Peco' / 56078 / 56113 / 56096 and 56105 worked the 0Z56 Crewe Basford Hall - Shrewsbury Coleham (Network Rail Depot) l/e cavalcade which is seen passing Upper Battlefield (north of Shrewsbury) making a colourful sight on an otherwise dreary day. I stand corrected but I can only assume that these locos are being stabled at Coleham until next weekend when they will resume North Wales engineering duties.
A ground engineering expert applying shotcrete to a retaining structure
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This is a photo of one of the James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror segments coated with gold by Quantum Coating Incorporated. It's NOT a flight segment, it's the engineering design unit. The photo was taken at BATC by Drew Noel.
Credit: Photo by Drew Noel
Image description:
A hexagonal mirror reflects golden light in a darkened room with purple and blue backlighting. It is on a stand which is holding it vertically. A person in a "bunny suit," a white coverall with protective hood and booties, is standing next to the mirror looking at it.
The Special heads into the yard; the crew ended up stuffing it deep in the back tracks of Butler Yard to keep the noise down for the soon to be sleeping VIP's. The WB "Z" waits to the left.
A 1958 Buick Roadmaster, as seen in front of Kettering University (née General Motors Institute).
From my youth in Flint through about the end of my high school days, I had wanted to be a car designer. I spent countless hours sketching cars and dreaming of what it would be like to be the next Harley Earl.
The turning point for me was a loss of faith in my math and science abilities, but I did enjoy attending a two-week summer program here at GMI in the summer of 1991, where I got a taste of some college-level math and science courses before my senior year of high school.
Carriagetown, Flint, Michigan.
Thursday, August 14, 2014.
Photographed whilst engaged in an engineering procession at Woodsmoor with the Wigan Re-Railing train is class 40 locomotive 40150 (D350) the remains of the Woodsmoor footbridge can be seen on the flat wagons which was behind 40181 (D381)
At this time there were only sixteen class 40's remaining in service, and all were switched off in this month on the 22nd January 1985.
New to York on the 21/06/61 withdrawn from Carlisle Kingmoor 01/85 cut up at BREL Crewe 03/87
13th January 1985
The engineering marvel this is and the effort that goes into this just leaves me amazed. These ducts regulate airflow and maintain the temperature inside remarkably cool even while it may be blistering outside.
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Trapped in their own stabling sidings are 450064 and 040 as the Basingstoke resignalling scheme gets going. New pointwork and ballast means a full block of the lines and many buses filling in the gaps between stations.
The Rendsburg High Bridge (in German: "Rendsburger Hochbrücke") with its suspension ferry (in German: "Schwebefähre") crossing the Kiel Canal (in German: "Nord-Ostsee-Kanal") on the left, Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Some background information:
The Rendsburg High Bridge (officially: "Eisenbahnhochbrücke Rendsburg") is a railway viaduct on the Neumünster–Flensburg line that also serves as a transporter bridge. The bridge, which is made out of steel, crosses the Kiel Canal at Rendsburg in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. It is owned by the Federal Water and Navigation Administration that also owns and runs the canal.
The Kiel Canal (formerly known as the "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal") is a 98 km (61 miles) long freshwater canal in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The canal was finished in 1895, but later widened. It links the North Sea at Brunsbüttel to the Baltic Sea at Kiel-Holtenau. An average of 460 km (290 miles) is saved by using the Kiel Canal instead of going around the Jutland Peninsula. This not only saves time but also avoids storm-prone seas and having to pass through the Danish straits. The Kiel Canal is one of the world's most frequented artificial waterways with an annual average of 32,000 ships (90 daily), transporting approximately 100 million tons of goods.
The first connection between the North and Baltic Seas was constructed while the area was ruled by Denmark–Norway. It was called the Eider Canal and used stretches of the Eider river for the link between the two seas. Completed during the reign of Christian VII of Denmark in 1784, the Eider Canal was a 43 km (27 miles) part of a 175 km (109 miles) waterway from Kiel to the Eider river's mouth at Tönning on the west coast. It was only 29 m (95 feet) wide with a depth of 3 m (9.8 feet), which limited the vessels that could use the canal to 300 tons.
After 1864, the Second Schleswig War put Schleswig-Holstein under the government of Prussia (from 1871 the German Empire). A new canal was sought by merchants and by the German navy, which wanted to link its bases in the Baltic and the North Sea without the need to sail around Denmark. In June 1887, construction started at Holtenau, near Kiel. The canal took over 9,000 workers eight years to build. In 1895, emperor Wilhelm II officially opened the canal for transiting from Brunsbüttel to Holtenau. The next day a ceremony took place in Holtenau, where Wilhelm II named the waterway the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal (after his grandfather, emperor Wilhelm I), and laid the final stone.
To cope with the increasing traffic and the demands of the Imperial German Navy, between 1907 and 1914 the canal was widened by Germany to allow dreadnought battleships to pass through. Two larger canal locks in Brunsbüttel and Holtenau were installed to complete the enlargement. After World War I, the Treaty of Versailles required the canal to be open to vessels of commerce and of war of any nation at peace with Germany, while leaving it under German administration. Only the United States opposed this proposal to avoid setting a precedent for similar concessions on the Panama Canal. The government under Adolf Hitler repudiated its international status in 1936, but the canal was reopened to all traffic after World War II. In 1948, its current name was adopted.
The canal is governed by detailed traffic rules. Each vessel using the canal is categorized into one of six traffic groups according to its dimensions. Larger ships are obliged to accept pilots and specialized canal helmsmen, in some cases even the assistance of a tugboat. Furthermore, there are regulations regarding the passing of oncoming ships. Larger ships may also be required to moor at the bollards provided at intervals along the canal to allow the passage of oncoming vessels. All permanent, fixed bridges crossing the canal since its construction have a clearance of 42 m (138 feet).
Maximum length for ships passing the Kiel Canal is 235.50 m (772.6 feet), with the maximum width (beam) of 32.50 m (106.6 feet). These ships can have a draught of up to 7.00 m (22.97 feet). Ships up to a length of 160.00 m (524.93 feet) may have a draught up to 9.50 m (31.2 feet). The bulker Ever Leader (deadweight 74,001 t) is considered to be the cargo ship that to date has come closest to the overall limits.
When the Kiel Canal was built, it cutted through existing traffic lines including the railway line between Neumünster and Flensburg for which two parallel swing bridges were erected. Main railway lines had right of way over ships on the canal and ships had to stop, losing about half an hour when a train passed. This was considered the major obstacle as the ships were unable to overtake and could pass each other at dedicated enlarged areas so that the traffic on the entire canal was hampered. Especially the navy pressed for a separation of traffic flows as closed bridges could delay flotillas by several hours.
In order to allow the railway line to pass above the canal, the new railway bridge was to have a clearance of 42 metres over the canal's mean water level. It was erected between 1911 and 1913 to a design by the civil engineer Friedrich Voss and replaced the earlier swing bridges. The steel viaduct has a length of 2,486 metres (8,156 feet) and is supplemented by embankments that bring the overall length of the structure to about 7.5 kilometres (4.7 miles). The cantilever main bridge is 317 metres (1,040 feet) long, has a main span of 140 metres (460 feet).
To serve Rendsburg station, situated at ground level only a couple of hundred metres from the main bridge, the railway line is routed through a large 360-degree loop on the north bank of the canal. The total cost of the construction, including the relocation of railway lines but excluding work related to the elevation of Rendsburg station, was 13.4 million Mark Today, this figure would correspond to roughly 66 million Euro. It included 5.7 million Mark for bridges, 2.7 million Mark for the mounds and 1.3 million Mark for underpasses and the relocation of roads.
The suspension ferry is already in operation since the bridge’s opening in 1913. Since then even its timetable was never changed. It runs daily every 15 minutes from early morning until late at night. It covers a distance of 125 metres (410 feet) within 1½ minutes and provides the shortest connection between the municipality of Osterrönfeld and the town of Rendsburg. As this means of transportation is especially useful to students on their way to school, larger maintenance work that requires suspension of service is coordinated with school holidays.
The gondola is fourteen metres long and six metres wide, and travels six metres above the canal. In recent years the nominal transport capacity has been reduced from six to four automobiles in order to factor in increased car size and weight. While the gondola is equipped with nautical equipment such as radio, radar and life-rafts, there is no prerequisite for the operator to hold a master's licence for inland navigation.
The suspension ferry met with two major accidents: During a storm in 1993, the unmanned and unlit gondola broke loose at night, was blown over the canal and collided with a ship. But both ship and gondola suffered only minor damage. In 2016 the gondola of the transporter bridge collided with the general cargo ship Evert Prahm and was heavily damaged. Two people, the waterman and the only passenger, were injured. After that, the suspension ferry was demounted and moved to a shipyard, but was found to be irreparably damaged. Construction of its replacement (optically almost true to original) began in 2020 and service resumed in 2022.
At the time, the Rendsburg High Bridge was built, it was regarded as a prime example of the German art of engineering. In 2013, it was awarded a "Historic Icon of German art of Engineering" (in German: "Historisches Wahrzeichen der Ingenieursbaukunst in Deutschland") by the German Chamber of Engineers and hence, also by the Federal Government of Germany. By the way, whenever a ship passes through the Rendsburg High Bridge, it is welcomed by a loudspeaker announcement, the sound of a bugle and last but not least the national anthem of the country, under whose flag it sails. You can imagine that watching the different ships passing by is quite entertaining.
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It took China long way to develop and produce a true supersonic fighter aircraft: in March, 1964, Shenyang Aircraft Factory began the first domestic production of the J-7 jet fighter. However, the mass production of the aircraft, which had been developed through Soviet help, license production and reverse-engineering, was severely hindered by an unexpected problem—the Cultural Revolution. This incident and its consequences resulted in poor initial quality and slow progress.
This, in turn, resulted in full scale production only coming about in the 1980s, by which time the J-7 design was showing its age. However, through the years the J-7 saw constant development and refinement in China.
One of the many directions of the prolific J-7 family was the J-7III series, later re-coded J-7C. This variant was in so far special, as it was not based on the 1st generation MiG-21F. It was rather a reverse-engineered MiG-21MF obtained from Egypt, but just like the Soviet ejection seat, the original Soviet radar failed to impress Chinese, so a domestic Chinese radar was developed for the aircraft called the "JL-7". JL-7 is a 2 cm wavelength mono pulse fire radar weighing 100 kg, with a maximum range of 28 km, and MTBF is 70 hours.
However, due to the limitation of Chinese avionics industry in the 1980s, the performance of the domestic Chinese fire control radars were not satisfactory, because due to their relatively large size, the nosecone had to be enlarged, resulting in decrease in aerodynamic performance of the series. As a result, only very limited numbers of this series were built.
The J-7III prototypes comprised a series of a total of 5 aircraft, equipped with domestically developed HTY-3 ejection seat and KL-11 auto pilot. These machines had to be powered by the domestic WP-7 engine (a copy of the MiG-21F's Tumansky R-11) because the intended WP-13F (a license build of the Tumansky R-13) failed to meet the original schedule. The J-7III was planned to enter service in 1985, but due to the delay of WP-13 development, it was not until 1987 when the design was finally certified.
Production of the true J-7C fighter started in 1989, when the WP-13 became available, but only a total of 17 were built until 1996. It was soon superseded by the J-7IIIA, the prototype of the more sophisticated J-7D. This upgraded all-weather fighter was equipped with KJ-11A auto pilot, JD-3II TACAN, ADS-1 air data computer, Type 563B INS, WL-7A radio compass, Type 256 radar altimeter, TKR-122 radio, 930-4 RWR, 941-4A decoy launcher, and an improved JL-7A radar.
The fighter was to be armed with PL-7 & PL-8 AAMs and carried a twin 23 mm gun (a copy of the MiG-21MF's ventral GSh-23-2 cannon). A HK-13A HUD replaced HK-03D optical sight in earlier models. The upgraded JL-7A fire control radar had look-down/shoot-down capability added.
The production J-7D received an uprated WP-13FI engine, and initial certification was received in November 1994, but it was not until more than a year later in December 1995 when the model was finally fully certified due to the need to certify the WP-13FI on the aircraft. But, again, the results were not satisfactory and only 32 were built until 1999.
Even though the J-7C and D had been developed from a much more modern basis than the earlier MiG-21F derivatives, the "new" type offered - except for the more capable radar and the all-weather capability - no considerable benefit, was even less manoueverable in dogfight situations, more complex and expensive, and also had a very limited range. What was needed was a revolutionary step forward.
Such a proposal came from Chengdu Aircraft Corporation's general designer Mr. Wang Zi-fang (王子方) in 1998, who had already worked on the J-7D. He proposed the addition of fuselage elements that would partly replace the inner wing sections and create lift, but also offer additional room for more and better avionics, allowing the carriage of state-of-the-art weaponry like the PL-11 AAM, together with more internal fuel. Furthermore, the adaptation of the WS-13 turbofan, a new engine for which project work had just started and which would improve both range and performance of the modified aircraft.
In 2000, while an alternative design, the J-7FS, had been under parallel development and cleared for service by then, CAC received green lights for a developmental technology demonstrator under the label J-7DS (S stands for Shi-yan, 试验, meaning "experimental" in Chinese).
While the general third generation MiG-21 outlines were retained, the blended wing/body sections - certainly inspired by US American types like the F-16 and the F-18 - and a new, taller fin changed overall proportions considerably. Esp. from above, the bigger wing planform with extended LERXes (reminiscent of the MiG Analog experimental delta wing aircraft that were used during the Tu-144 development in the Soviet union) created the impression of a much more massive and compact aircraft, even though the dimenions remained unchanged.
Thanks to the additional space in the BWB sections, new and better equipment could be installed, and the aerodynamics were changed, too. For instance, the J-7's air brakes under the forward fuselage were deleted and replaced by a new pair of splayed design, stabilizing the aircraft more effectively in a dive. The single air brake in front of the ventral fin was retained, though, as well as the blown flaps from the MiG-21MF.
The ventral gun pod with a domestic copy of the GSh-23-2 was also deleted; this space, together with the air brake compartment, was now used for a semi-recessed laser range finder, so that guided ammunition could be deployed. But a gun was retained: a new, more effective Type 30-I 30 mm (1.18 in) cannon (a copy of the Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-1) with 150 rounds was placed into the port LERX, under the cockpit.
Inside of the LERX on the other side, compartments for new avionics (esp. for the once more upgraded JL-7B fire control radar) were added. With this radar and weapons like the PL-11 missile, the aircraft finally achieved the long desired BVR interception capability.
Flanking the new, longer WS-13 engine, the BWBs held extra fuel tanks. For en even more extended range and loiter time, provisions were made for a fixed air-refuelling probe on the starboard side under the cockpit.
Under the inner wings, an additional pair of pylons was added (for a total of seven), and overall ordnance load could be raised to 3.000 kg (6.600 lb).
The first J-7DS first flew in summer 2005, still only powered by an WP-13I engine, for a 22-month test program. Three prototypes were built, but only the first two aircraft were to fly – the third machine was only used for static tests.
The driving force behind this program was actually the PLANAF, the People's Liberation Army, Naval Air Force (中國人民解放軍海軍航空兵). While the Chinese Air Force rather placed its bet on the more modern and sophisticated Chengdu J-10 fighter, the PLANAF was rather looking for a more simple and inexpensive multi-role combat aircraft that could carry out both air defence and strike missions, and replace the ageing (and rather ineffective) J-8 fighters and Q-5 attack aircraft, as well as early J-7II fighters with limited all-weather capability. Consequently, the type was only operated by the PLANAF from 2010 onwards and received the official designation J-7DH ("H" for 海军 [Haijun] = Navy).
Production was still continuing in small numbers in late 2016, but the number of built specimen is uncertain. About 150 J-7DH are supposed to be in active service, mostly with PLANAF Northern and East Fleet units. Unlike many former J-7 variants (including its ancestor, the PLAAF's more or less stillborn C and D variants), the J-7DH was not offered for export.
General characteristics:
Crew: 1
Length: 14.61 m (47 ft 10½ in)
15.69 m (51 ft 5 in) with pitot
Wingspan: 7,41 m (24 ft 3½ in)
Height: 4.78 m (15 ft 8½ in)
Wing area: 28.88 m² (309.8 ft²)
Aspect ratio: 2.8:1
Empty weight: 5,892 kg (12.977 lb)
Loaded weight: 8,240 kg (18.150 lb)
Max. take-off weight: 9,800 kg (21.585 lb)
Powerplant:
1× Guizhou WS-13 turbofan with a dry thrust of 51.2 kN (11,510 lbf)
and 84.6 kN (19,000 lbf) with afterburner
Performance
Maximum speed: Mach 2.0, 2,200 km/h (1.189 knots, 1.375 mph)
Stall speed: 210 km/h (114 knots, 131 mph) IAS
Combat radius: 1.050 km (568 nmi, 652 mi) (air superiority, two AAMs and three drop tanks)
Ferry range: 2,500 km (1.350 nmi, 1.550 mi)
Service ceiling: 17,500 m (57.420 ft)
Rate of climb: 195 m/s (38.386 ft/min)
Armament:
1× Type 30-I 30mm (1.18") cannon with 150 rounds in the port forward fuselage;
7× hardpoints (6× under-wing, 1× centerline under-fuselage) with a capacity of 3,000 kg maximum (up to 500 kg each); Ordnance primarily comprises air-to-air missiles, including PL-2, PL-5, PL-7, PL-8, PL-9 and PL-11 AAMs, but in a secondary CAS role various rocket pods an unguided bombs of up to 500kg caliber can be carried
The kit and its assembly:
Another Chinese whif, and again a MiG-21 derivative - a fruitful source of inspiration. The J-7DH is not based ona real world project, though, but was rather inspired by an article about a Chinese 2020 update for the MiG-21 from Japan, including some drawings and artwork.
The latter depicted a late MiG-21 with some minor mods, but also some characteristic F-16 parts like the chines and the BWB flanks grafted to it - and it looked good!
Since I recently butchered an Intech F-16 for my Academy T-50 conversion (primariliy donation the whole landing gear, including the wells), I had a donor kit at ahnd, and I also found a Mastercraft MiG-21MF in my stash without a true plan. So I combined both for "something Chinese"...
The build was pretty starightforward - except for the fact that the Intech F-16 is a rather clumsy affair (donating the fin and the fuselage flanks) and that no part from the Mastercraft MiG-21 matches with another one! Lots of improvisation and mods were necessary.
On the other side, the F-16 parts were just glued onto the MiG-21 fuselage and blended into one with putty (in several layers, though).
The fin was taken wholesale from the F-16, but clipped by about 5mm at the top. I originally wanted to use F-16 wings with wing tip launch rails and the stabilizers, too, but when I held them to the model it looked wacky - so I reverted to the Fishbed parts. The stabilizers were taken OOB, but the wing span was reduced at the roots, so that the original MiG-21 wing span was retained. Only the landing gear wells had to be adapted accordingly, but that was easier than expected and the result looks very organic.
With more wing area, I added a third pair of hardpoints under the wing roots, and I kept the gun under the cockpit in the LERX. That offered room inside of the fuselage, filled by a laser rangefinder in a canoe fairing where the original gun used to be.
On the tail, a new jet nozzle was mounted, on the fuselage some air scoops and antennae were added an an IR sensor on the nose. A new seat was used in the cockpit instead of the poor L-shaped OOB thing. The PL-2 & -11 ordnance consists of simple AIM-9Bs and slightly modified AIM-120, plus some launch rails from the scrap box.
Paintings and markings:
Modern Chinese military aircraft are hardly benchmarks for creative paint schemes - and the only "realistic" option in this case would have been a uniform grey livery. The original J-7C PLAAF night fighters carried a high contrast sand/dark green/light blue livery, similar to the MiG-21 export scheme (a.k.a. "Pumpkin"), but I found the latter not suitabel for a naval operator.
I eventually found a compromise, using one of the J-7C schemes as pattern but using grey tones instead - still not very colorful, but the "clover" patterns would help disrupt the aircraft's outlines and support the modern look and feel of this whif.
Basic colors are Humbrol 140 (Dark Gull Grey, FS 36231) and 165 (RAF Medium Sea Grey) from above, plus 122 (IAF Pale Blue, FS 35622) on the undersides. With the dark grey pattern placed with no direct connection to the Pale Blue undersides, there's even a blending effect between the tones - not spectacular, but IMHO effective.
The cockpit interior became pale teal (a mix of Soviet Cockpit Blue and white), while the landing gear wells were painted with a mix of Humbrol 56, 119 and 225 - for a yellow-ish, dull metallic brown. The wheel discs became bright green (Humbrol 131), and any di-electric panel and the radome became deep green (Humbrol 2).
The decals come from a Begemot MiG-21 sheet (roundels), while the tactical 5-digit code comes from an Airfix 1:72 B-17 sheet. The yellow code is a bit unusual, as well as its place on the fin, but both occur on Chinese fighters.
The code itself is based on the information published in the 2010 book “Chinese Air Power” by Yefim Gordon und Dmitriy Komissarov, where the Chinese code system is explained – I hope that it is more or less authentic.
The kit received a light black ink wash and some dry painting with lighter blue-grey shades, but no weathering, since modern Chinese aircraft tend to look pretty clean and pristine. Since the kits both did not feature much surface details, and a lot of the few OOB details got lost during the PSR process for the BWB wing sections, I painted some details and panel lines with a soft pencil - a compromise, though. Finally, the kit was sealed with matt acrylic varnish.
The result is a pretty subtle whif, and with the F-16 parts added the result even looks very conclusive! From above, the extra fuselage width makes the Fishbed look very massive, which is underlined by the extended stabilizer span. But I think that retailing the original MiG-21 delta wing was a good decision, because it helps retaining the Fishbed's "fast" look.
I am just not 100% happy with the finish - but for the crappy kits I used as basis it's O.K.
Engineering Across Continents
Two Years in Madrid and Two Years in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Welcome to the Department of Engineering at Saint Louis University in Spain
The department is home to more than 20 faculty members who form an interconnected network of researchers and industry professionals contributing to the creation of new frontiers of modern science and engineering. Our students and faculty have access to world-renowned educational resources and outstanding lab facilities. In keeping with the Jesuit tradition of promoting the development of the whole person, the Engineering programs include the Core Curriculum of Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology. This Core provides a framework for acquiring a broad foundation of knowledge in the Humanities, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences. At the same time, the Core fosters intellectual inquiry, ethical decision making, and effective communication across the disciplines.
This is a false-colored STEM image of a copper TEM grid, which was oxidised by a mistake during the sample preparation.
STEM is a powerful and highly versatile technique for atomic resolution imaging and nanoscale analysis.
47332 stands at Selby Street on the main lines out of Hull at the head of an Engineers train on 5th December 1988. The route was closed for several Sundays in order to re-ballast the trackbed and replace both sets of metals.
Olympus OM10 f/11 60th/sec Ektachrome 100
Sunday Engineering works at Gillingham shows this road tractor mounted on railway wheels working at the crossing.24th January 2016.
Engineering studies concerning foreground bokeh
photographed with
Voigtländer Color-Heliar 75mm F2.5 SL @f/2.5 @IR-Cut Filter @Sony NEX-7 modif. removed Sensor-AA-Filterstack @RAW Power (iOS), raw data entry sharpening, raw contrast and more ... apart from that, no photo retouching …
at Fürth, Germany
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Production: 1990 (one-of-one, based on the C4 Corvette)
Engine: 5,7 litre biturbo V8 (petrol)
Power: 650 PS
Gearbox: 6 speed automatic
Layout: mid engine, all wheel drive
Location: Lime Rock Park, Connecticut (USA)
These pictures were taken with my brand new Tokina 11-16mm 2.8 wide angle lens and I was just having some fun. The location for these pics is the University of Illinois, particularly the Main and Engineering Quad.