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Toldos brazos extensibles de Cerramientos Candela en Elche, Alicante, Murcia. www.cerramientoscandela.com
Toldos brazos extensibles de Cerramientos Candela en Elche, Alicante, Murcia. www.cerramientoscandela.com
Toldos brazos extensibles de Cerramientos Candela en Elche, Alicante, Murcia. www.cerramientoscandela.com
The industry’s first “flex-chassis” enterprise switch family, the H3C® S5800 Series, is designed to enhance network reliability, lower customers’ total cost of ownership (TCO) and improve application delivery, to fulfill 3Com’s promise to customers they no longer have to compromise on network performance and features because of budget constraints.
The S5820X-28C is a 2RU Flex Chassis switch that delivers high density 10G and Gigabit connectivity and supports embedded extensible application services including security, wireless and monitoring.
FarCry CMS is Daemon's flagship offering, an intuitive and extensible Content Management System that puts "controlled power" into the hands of the people who own your site content. FarCry is a cutting edge ColdFusion MX application framework for web based content management that blends the very best of open source development with commercial backing and support.
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From a presentation at the W3C Technical plenary [slides] Seems like I'm still encountering people encountering this issue for the first time, some six years after first hitting it with XML Schema. Oh joy!
Inspired by an image from a book, Philosophy of Structure by the great Engineer Torroja, the project has long been conceived as an automated, iterative joint able to incorporate morphable, stretchable and infinitely extensible formal possibilities - as well as all AISC pipe sizes.
From an aesthetic standpoint we prefer a bio-mechanical look, while from an industrial standpoing we conceive of the jont being produced in rapid prototyping and made available via ftp download (or as actual parts from Shapeways) as an open source, low-cost method of space formation for rapid deployment.
The manufacturing of the joint could be via low-tech sand casting, direct to metal rapid prototyping or via more mass-production technologies. With one simple, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) we can optimize the joint for an active performative connection for its respective location and function.
We imagine extra room in the joint for fit-up, or even pass-trhough sleeving of pipe within the joint for Waterloo-type adjustability.
In this five-frame sequence, an American White Pelican expells material from its extensible pouch, which is used to to scoop up fish while the bird swims.
Inspired by an image from a book, Philosophy of Structure by the great Engineer Torroja, the project has long been conceived as an automated, iterative joint able to incorporate morphable, stretchable and infinitely extensible formal possibilities - as well as all AISC pipe sizes.
From an aesthetic standpoint we prefer a bio-mechanical look, while from an industrial standpoing we conceive of the jont being produced in rapid prototyping and made available via ftp download (or as actual parts from Shapeways) as an open source, low-cost method of space formation for rapid deployment.
The manufacturing of the joint could be via low-tech sand casting, direct to metal rapid prototyping or via more mass-production technologies. With one simple, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) we can optimize the joint for an active performative connection for its respective location and function.
We imagine extra room in the joint for fit-up, or even pass-trhough sleeving of pipe within the joint for Waterloo-type adjustability.
Linkview connects your web server over GPRS to collect data from remote locations with extensible data responses from server to be presented at Linkview console. A low cost high performance mini black box based on microchip pic18f45xx micro controller is here that keep posting live physical data to web server with no human intervention.
L'imaginari popular relaciona la Cuca fera amb diferents menes de criatures relacionades amb els dracs.
La Cuca fera de Tortosa segons una auca nou-centista
Una de les formes més populars, està emparentada amb la Tarasca de Provença. Es tractaria d'una mena de tortuga gegant, amb la closca d'aquest animal, però amb cap semblant al cocodril a la punta d'un coll extensible. Peta les dents d'una manera seguida que fa esporuguir la mainada, a la qual hom explica que cada dia es menja tretze gats i tres infants vius. A Tortosa es passejava la mare seguida de les seves dues filles.
Una altra forma que no deixa de ser popular, sobretot entre la mainada, és una mena de drac -segons com una procesionària molt grossa- no alat que s'arrossega per terra amb un nombre indeterminat de potes. En el bestiari popular català, cada pota és una persona diferent. Vegeu-ne aquí un exemple.
Building, deploying, and running a scalable and extensible serverless application using AWS John Chapin (Symphonia), Mike Roberts (Symphonia)
Washington, DC
Listed 5/5/2014
Reference Number: 14000186
Bunker Hill Elementary School was designed as an extensible school building and was constructed in phases between 1939 and 1953 to replace an earlier school building on the site. The new school building was needed as the surrounding Michigan Park community came to include a growing school-age population. Its construction was strongly urged by the Michigan Park Citizens1 Association and was built by the city's Office of Municipal Architect according to designs made by private practitioner Arthur B. Heaton. The school was executed in the Colonial Revival style, the then preferred style of the Municipal Architect's office (which supervised school construction) and by the Commission of Fine Arts. The idea of the extensible school building originated in the 1920s in the Municipal Architect's Office and was intended as a way to expand buildings in an organic manner as the need for larger buildings arose, which in the case of Bunker Hill, it did in the 1940s and early 1950s. Bunker Hill school remains an almost perfect example of an extensible school, described in the Multiple Property Document, Public School Buildings ofWashington, D.C.1862-1960.
National Register of Historic Places Homepage
This little jig is not part of the RV-10 plans. I'd like to allow for the easy installation of a camera in this bay (probably attached to the hatch cover), but not have to worry about running wires to this location later. So what I'm going to do is run a bunch of extra wires to this connector, then plug the two wires from the stall warning switch into it and leave the other 7 connections empty. Extensibility pays off, eventually.
Inspired by an image from a book, Philosophy of Structure by the great Engineer Torroja, the project has long been conceived as an automated, iterative joint able to incorporate morphable, stretchable and infinitely extensible formal possibilities - as well as all AISC pipe sizes.
From an aesthetic standpoint we prefer a bio-mechanical look, while from an industrial standpoing we conceive of the jont being produced in rapid prototyping and made available via ftp download (or as actual parts from Shapeways) as an open source, low-cost method of space formation for rapid deployment.
The manufacturing of the joint could be via low-tech sand casting, direct to metal rapid prototyping or via more mass-production technologies. With one simple, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) we can optimize the joint for an active performative connection for its respective location and function.
We imagine extra room in the joint for fit-up, or even pass-trhough sleeving of pipe within the joint for Waterloo-type adjustability.
Toldos brazos extensibles de Cerramientos Candela en Elche, Alicante, Murcia. www.cerramientoscandela.com
03/11/11 - 05/11/11
WORKSHOP WITH SANDRA BIWER
@ Mudam Luxembourg - Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
An A4 paper sheet - does that sound ordinary to you? In this workshop young people form 12 to 19 years old explored the sculptural potential of paper.
Artiste Sandra Biwer showed them different techniques to construct an extensible and transformable sculpture. By cutting, folding, repeating and assembling the participants developped a creative process through the medium of paper.
!!!! NEXT ART FREAK WORKSHOPS !!!
YOUR NAME HERE
Workshop with Sumo
23/02/11 - 25/02/11
FULLY BOOKED!
LAUNDROMAT NATIONAL
Workshop with Claudia Passeri
12/04/11, 13/04/11 & 14/04/11 2pm-5pm
Min. 3, max. 12 participants
Free of charge
Booking and information:
artfreak@mudam.lu
t +352 45 37 85 531
© Photo : Mudam Luxembourg
Inspired by an image from a book, Philosophy of Structure by the great Engineer Torroja, the project has long been conceived as an automated, iterative joint able to incorporate morphable, stretchable and infinitely extensible formal possibilities - as well as all AISC pipe sizes.
From an aesthetic standpoint we prefer a bio-mechanical look, while from an industrial standpoing we conceive of the jont being produced in rapid prototyping and made available via ftp download (or as actual parts from Shapeways) as an open source, low-cost method of space formation for rapid deployment.
The manufacturing of the joint could be via low-tech sand casting, direct to metal rapid prototyping or via more mass-production technologies. With one simple, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) we can optimize the joint for an active performative connection for its respective location and function.
We imagine extra room in the joint for fit-up, or even pass-trhough sleeving of pipe within the joint for Waterloo-type adjustability.
"Hasta que las cosas y los cuerpos sean como queremos que sean" no es un ciclo de cine. Se trata más bien de un conjunto de obras audio/visuales que se oponen a la norma, a la taxonomía, al paradigma biológico de lo ‘natural’, a la Realidad con mayúscula y unívoca, a la pureza y al binarismo. Atravesadas todas ellas por la relación entre tecnología y género (entendido éste como un constructo social no limitado únicamente a la norma sexual, sino extensible a todo sistema de dominación identitaria), las piezas comisariadas abordan la (de)construcción de cuerpos y roles desde una perspectiva queer, tecno(dis)útopica, a veces mística; recuperan ese potencial liberador primigenio del ciberespacio y las telecomunicaciones, convirtiéndolas en herramientas para trascender la carne; se agencian el código estético y narrativo propio de internet, lo subvierten; son fracturas, manifiestos, (auto)retratos, (hiper)conexiones. Ruidos que proponen una mirada autónoma e independiente de estándares (a veces colectiva pero siempre ‘alien’) sobre la propia imagen, que buscan borrarla y retomarla de nuevo, jugar con ella, erotizarla, moldearla, pixelarla, sobreexponerla y volver a borrarla hasta que las cosas y los cuerpos sean como queremos que sean.
Enlaces: WEB CA2M | FACEBOOK CA2M | YOUTUBE CA2M | TWITTER CA2M
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& quot; Until things and bodies are as we want them to be & quot; it is not a film series. Rather, it is a set of audio / visual works that oppose the norm, the taxonomy, the biological paradigm of the ‘natural’, the Reality with a capital and univocal letter, purity and binarism. All of them traversed by the relationship between technology and gender (understood as a social construct not limited only to the sexual norm, but extended to any system of identity domination), the curated pieces address the (de) construction of bodies and roles from a queer perspective, techno (dis) utopian, sometimes mystical; they recover that original liberating potential of cyberspace and telecommunications, turning them into tools to transcend the flesh; they get together the aesthetic and narrative code of the internet, subvert it; they are fractures, manifestos, (self) portraits, (hyper) connections. Noises that propose an autonomous and standards-independent gaze (sometimes collective but always 'alien') on the image itself, which seek to erase it and retake it again, play with it, eroticize it, mold it, pixelate it, overexpose it and erase it again until things and bodies are as we want them to be.
03/11/11 - 05/11/11
WORKSHOP WITH SANDRA BIWER
@ Mudam Luxembourg - Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
An A4 paper sheet - does that sound ordinary to you? In this workshop young people form 12 to 19 years old explored the sculptural potential of paper.
Artiste Sandra Biwer showed them different techniques to construct an extensible and transformable sculpture. By cutting, folding, repeating and assembling the participants developped a creative process through the medium of paper.
!!!! NEXT ART FREAK WORKSHOPS !!!
YOUR NAME HERE
Workshop with Sumo
23/02/11 - 25/02/11
FULLY BOOKED!
LAUNDROMAT NATIONAL
Workshop with Claudia Passeri
12/04/11, 13/04/11 & 14/04/11 2pm-5pm
Min. 3, max. 12 participants
Free of charge
Booking and information:
artfreak@mudam.lu
t +352 45 37 85 531
© Photo : Mudam Luxembourg
Inspired by an image from a book, Philosophy of Structure by the great Engineer Torroja, the project has long been conceived as an automated, iterative joint able to incorporate morphable, stretchable and infinitely extensible formal possibilities - as well as all AISC pipe sizes.
From an aesthetic standpoint we prefer a bio-mechanical look, while from an industrial standpoing we conceive of the jont being produced in rapid prototyping and made available via ftp download (or as actual parts from Shapeways) as an open source, low-cost method of space formation for rapid deployment.
The manufacturing of the joint could be via low-tech sand casting, direct to metal rapid prototyping or via more mass-production technologies. With one simple, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) we can optimize the joint for an active performative connection for its respective location and function.
We imagine extra room in the joint for fit-up, or even pass-trhough sleeving of pipe within the joint for Waterloo-type adjustability.
Beautiful and extremely attractive,this dining extension table by Cattelan Italia is just what is needed to transform any dining space into a heavenly abode. Generously sized and elegantly designed,the Rodeo Drive Extensible Dining Table has a smartly shaped glass top available in Mix frosted Painted glass or Mix Brown Painted Glass finish. The table stands on a strong and durable leg made out of wenge wood or stainless steel attached to a base made up of Stainless Steel. The top and extension is in Mixed Glass.
"Hasta que las cosas y los cuerpos sean como queremos que sean" no es un ciclo de cine. Se trata más bien de un conjunto de obras audio/visuales que se oponen a la norma, a la taxonomía, al paradigma biológico de lo ‘natural’, a la Realidad con mayúscula y unívoca, a la pureza y al binarismo. Atravesadas todas ellas por la relación entre tecnología y género (entendido éste como un constructo social no limitado únicamente a la norma sexual, sino extensible a todo sistema de dominación identitaria), las piezas comisariadas abordan la (de)construcción de cuerpos y roles desde una perspectiva queer, tecno(dis)útopica, a veces mística; recuperan ese potencial liberador primigenio del ciberespacio y las telecomunicaciones, convirtiéndolas en herramientas para trascender la carne; se agencian el código estético y narrativo propio de internet, lo subvierten; son fracturas, manifiestos, (auto)retratos, (hiper)conexiones. Ruidos que proponen una mirada autónoma e independiente de estándares (a veces colectiva pero siempre ‘alien’) sobre la propia imagen, que buscan borrarla y retomarla de nuevo, jugar con ella, erotizarla, moldearla, pixelarla, sobreexponerla y volver a borrarla hasta que las cosas y los cuerpos sean como queremos que sean.
Enlaces: WEB CA2M | FACEBOOK CA2M | YOUTUBE CA2M | TWITTER CA2M
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& quot; Until things and bodies are as we want them to be & quot; it is not a film series. Rather, it is a set of audio / visual works that oppose the norm, the taxonomy, the biological paradigm of the ‘natural’, the Reality with a capital and univocal letter, purity and binarism. All of them traversed by the relationship between technology and gender (understood as a social construct not limited only to the sexual norm, but extended to any system of identity domination), the curated pieces address the (de) construction of bodies and roles from a queer perspective, techno (dis) utopian, sometimes mystical; they recover that original liberating potential of cyberspace and telecommunications, turning them into tools to transcend the flesh; they get together the aesthetic and narrative code of the internet, subvert it; they are fractures, manifestos, (self) portraits, (hyper) connections. Noises that propose an autonomous and standards-independent gaze (sometimes collective but always 'alien') on the image itself, which seek to erase it and retake it again, play with it, eroticize it, mold it, pixelate it, overexpose it and erase it again until things and bodies are as we want them to be.
IceDress Thermal Figure Skating Outfit - Drape 3
figureskatingstore.com/icedress-thermal-apparel/
Training outfit “Drape 3” for figure skating made of the Italian techno-fabric Vuelta. A new
set of training clothes “Drape 3”. The mesmerizing model has a perfect fit and interesting
details. The new interpretation allowed us to make the jacket more complex: cutting the
front yoke on the back with the “shelf”, draping over the zipper, fancy sleeves. Also, we want
to offer you to combine the jacket with new double coloured leggings. This allows you to
place the maximum emphasis on the jacket to emphasize the advantages of the suit and
harmoniously completes the image as a whole. The fabric from which the costume has
excellent characteristics. Vuelta ensures good extensibility in four directions, maintainability,
and excellent fit. In addition, it is extremely practical fabric, due to its exceptional resistance
to pilling and abrasion, it is extremely durable. Excellent thermal insulation and anti-bacterial
properties of the fabrics with optimum breathability make the suit as comfortable as possible.
Pliable poche taille intégré Bluetooth Manfrotto bâton extensible pour l’iphone 6 plus 5 5S 4S Samsung Android téléphone
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Viptela briefs investors on Secure Extensible Network in the Information Technology session during DEMO Traction, the Growth Conference, at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, California, Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Viptela's Secure Extensible Network (SEN) virtualizes Wide Area Networking (WAN) infrastructure, enabling enterprises to build a secure, hybrid WAN using a combination of private circuits and commodity broadband/LTE. This policy-controlled network drops WAN costs by 50% and improves application performance by 500%. More information on Viptela can be found at bit.ly/DEMO-Viptela. DEMO Traction is focused obsessively on growth by connecting the most promising growth startups with prospective customers, investors and strategic partners. DEMO Traction is an invite-only event for startups solving problems using cutting-edge technology who are exhibiting traction or are on the cusp of a major growth spurt. Photo by Stephen Brashear (www.stephenbrashear.com)
For complete coverage of DEMO Traction visit bit.ly/DEMOsite.
Ce tissu est extensible dans les deux sens et est idéal pour les tenues de spectacle, la confection de costumes de gymnastique, de maillots de bain.
7,90€ le mètre
www.quartierdestissus.com/tissus-jersey-/176-tissu-jersey...
Living their lives on the forest floor, their dusky orange/brown colours match the leaves. They mostly hunt small invertebrates with their long, extensible tongue. The genus comprising 26 species is endemic to Madasgascar and due to their cryptic coloration is less well studied than other genera in the family. They are most easily found at night when they climb plants and sleep on leaves to avoid ground predators. Found during a night hike in mt. d'Ambre national park.
03/11/11 - 05/11/11
WORKSHOP WITH SANDRA BIWER
@ Mudam Luxembourg - Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
An A4 paper sheet - does that sound ordinary to you? In this workshop young people form 12 to 19 years old explored the sculptural potential of paper.
Artiste Sandra Biwer showed them different techniques to construct an extensible and transformable sculpture. By cutting, folding, repeating and assembling the participants developped a creative process through the medium of paper.
!!!! NEXT ART FREAK WORKSHOPS !!!
YOUR NAME HERE
Workshop with Sumo
23/02/11 - 25/02/11
FULLY BOOKED!
LAUNDROMAT NATIONAL
Workshop with Claudia Passeri
12/04/11, 13/04/11 & 14/04/11 2pm-5pm
Min. 3, max. 12 participants
Free of charge
Booking and information:
artfreak@mudam.lu
t +352 45 37 85 531
© Photo : Mudam Luxembourg
Toldos brazos extensibles de Cerramientos Candela en Elche, Alicante, Murcia. www.cerramientoscandela.com
Toldos brazos extensibles de Cerramientos Candela en Elche, Alicante, Murcia. www.cerramientoscandela.com
Inspired by an image from a book, Philosophy of Structure by the great Engineer Torroja, the project has long been conceived as an automated, iterative joint able to incorporate morphable, stretchable and infinitely extensible formal possibilities - as well as all AISC pipe sizes.
From an aesthetic standpoint we prefer a bio-mechanical look, while from an industrial standpoing we conceive of the jont being produced in rapid prototyping and made available via ftp download (or as actual parts from Shapeways) as an open source, low-cost method of space formation for rapid deployment.
The manufacturing of the joint could be via low-tech sand casting, direct to metal rapid prototyping or via more mass-production technologies. With one simple, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) we can optimize the joint for an active performative connection for its respective location and function.
We imagine extra room in the joint for fit-up, or even pass-trhough sleeving of pipe within the joint for Waterloo-type adjustability.
IceDress Thermal Figure Skating Outfit - Drape 2
figureskatingstore.com/icedress-thermal-apparel/
Training outfit “Drape 2” for figure skating made of the Italian techno-fabric Vuelta. A new set
of training clothes “Drape 2”. The mesmerizing model has a perfect fit and interesting details.
The new interpretation allowed us to make the jacket more complex: cutting the front yoke on
the back with the “shelf”, draping over the zipper, fancy sleeves. Also, we want to offer you to
combine the jacket with new double coloured leggings. This allows you to place the maximum
emphasis on the jacket to emphasize the advantages of the suit and harmoniously completes
the image as a whole. The fabric from which the costume has excellent characteristics. Vuelta
ensures good extensibility in four directions, maintainability, and excellent fit. In addition, it is
extremely practical fabric, due to its exceptional resistance to pilling and abrasion, it is
extremely durable. Excellent thermal insulation and anti-bacterial properties of the fabrics
with optimum breathability make the suit as comfortable as possible.
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Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!
Some background:
The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk was a single seat subsonic carrier-capable attack aircraft developed for the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps in the early 1950s. The delta winged, single turbojet engine Skyhawk was designed and produced by Douglas Aircraft Company, and later by McDonnell Douglas. It was originally designated A4D under the U.S. Navy's pre-1962 designation system. The Skyhawk was a relatively lightweight aircraft with a maximum takeoff weight of 24,500 pounds (11,100 kg) in its late versions and had a top speed of more than 670 miles per hour (1,080 km/h). Late versions were capable of carrying a bomb load equivalent to that of a World War II-era Boeing B-17 bomber and the aircraft supported a variety of missiles, bombs, and other munitions, including nuclear stores. The type saw an intensive career with the US Navy and the US Marine Corps during the Vietnam War era and was furthermore exported and operated by a wide range of countries all over the world, serving well into the 21st century.
One of the Skyhawk’s minor operators was Spain, specifically the Spanish Navy (Armada). Like the rest of the Spanish armed forces, the Spanish Navy had maintained Franco's policy of neutrality during World War II. Since the mid-20th century the Spanish Navy began a process of reorganization to become once again one of the major navies of the world. This not only included ships and submarines, but also an aerial warfare branch for coastal defense and to support the Infantería de Marina, the Spanish Navy Marines Corps. After the development of the Baleares-class frigates based on the US Navy's Knox class the Spanish Navy embraced the American naval doctrine and started to look for a light modern fighter bomber to equip a land-based attack squadron, with the prospect to eventually obtain an aircraft carrier and use the aircraft from it.
The choice fell in 1960 on the Douglas A-4, which offered a modern, compact and simple airframe with the desired option to operate the aircraft from older, smaller World War II-era aircraft carriers. These were still used by many smaller navies during the 1960s, and the Spanish Navy envisioned the procurement of one of more of these ships as operational basis for the new jet fighter force. These older ships were often unable to accommodate newer Navy fighters such as the F-4 Phantom II and F-8 Crusader, which were faster and more capable than the A-4, but significantly larger, heavier, complex and also costly than older naval fighters.
The Spanish Navy ordered a total of eighteen new Skyhawks from the USA, fourteen single-seaters and four trainers, locally called SA-4. The Armada’s Skyhawk attack variant was based on the A4D-2 (re-designated A-4B after 1962) but had, compared with the original US Navy aircraft, improved flight control systems and navigation, including an AN/APN-141 radar altimeter and a state-of-the-art AN/ASN-19A navigation computer. The trainers were equivalent with the US Navy's contemporary TA-4J variant.
Unlike the original A-4Bs, which lacked a radar and were therefore only suited for daytime operations, the Armada’s SA-4Bs were outfitted with a compact Dassault-built Aida radar unit within the aircraft's more pointed nose, giving them a unique profile among the Skyhawk family. Like the USN A-4Bs, the Spanish machines all had air-to-air refueling capabilities in the form of a fixed refueling probe, even though it was a cranked variant (intruduced on Amercian machines with the contemporary A-4F) to avoid interferences with the Aida radar. The SA-4Bs furthermore had the ability to carry a center-mounted "buddy store", a large external fuel tank with a hose reel in the aft section and an extensible drogue refueling bucket.
Alongside the Aida radar unit, a Swedish-made SAAB bombing computer was added to increase bombing accuracy. Specific to these machines were a TACAN receiver and a braking parachute under the tail for land operations. Internal armament remained the original pair of American 20 mm (0.79 in) Colt Mk 12 cannon with 200 RPG in the wing roots. For the Spanish Navy the SA-4Bs were outfitted with two additional underwing hardpoints and avionics for AIM-9B Sidewinder AAMs, so that they could carry a broader range of ground attack ordnance and operate in a limited aerial defense role, too. The SA-4Bs also had provision for radio-guided AGM-12 Bullpup missiles, which were the Skyhawks’ primary anti-ship weapon at the time. The missile avionics were housed in a shallow dorsal hump while a guidance antenna was mounted in a small bulge in ahead of the front landing gear well, so that the machine did not have to carry a respective external pod that would block a hardpoint.
The Skyhawk’s service in Spain was not long, though. In 1967, the mothballed US American light WWII aircraft carrier USS Cabot was loaned to Spain, becoming Dédalo, and the loan was eventually converted to a sale in 1972. By that time, the SA-4Bs – originally painted all-over dark blue – had been re-painted in a US Navy-style high-visibility scheme in Light Gull Grey over Whit and were operating from land bases only, allocated to 7th Squadron at Rota Naval Base near Cádiz in Andalusia The original plan to operate the SA-4Bs from Dédalo came to nought because the ship turned out to be too small to carry and deploy the Skyhawks properly, and the ship’s wooden deck would not withstand the stress from the modern jets’ frequent aircraft starts and landings. A new all-metal deck was not possible, due to budget and weight issues. In consequence the Armada’s SA-4s remained land-based and the Spanish Navy employed Dédalo as a helicopter-only antisubmarine warfare carrier with the SH-3D Sea King.
Attempts to add a fixed-wing strikeforce to the venerable carrier were made, though: On 8 November 1972 a Hawker Siddeley Harrier was successfully tested on the Dédalo’s deck, a first in the history of the plane. It was decided to order and deploy short-take-off-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) AV-8S Matadors (AV-8A Harrier) when Dédalo was overhauled. Since the Harriers' downdraft on vertical landing would have damaged the wooden deck, protective metal sheathing was installed on the rear area of the flight deck – a very convenient compromise.
Spain's purchase of Harriers was complicated by long-standing political friction between the British and Spanish governments of the era, though, and even though the Harriers were manufactured in the UK they were sold to Spain only with the US acting as an intermediary. The lengthy negotiation process was bridged by the SA-4s as well as a batch of AH-1G Cobra attack helicopters.
The first batch of six AV-8S single seat and two TAV-8S two seat aircraft were delivered to the Armada Española throughout 1976 and started carrier operations. Due to budget limitations and to simplify maintenance and logistics, the Spanish navy decided in 1977 to phase the Skyhawks out in favor of the more versatile Harrier, which could provide both air defense and strike capabilities for the Spanish fleet. A second batch of five AV-8S aircraft, now directly procured from UK mainly to replace losses, was delivered in 1980-. With this delivery the Spanish Skyhawks were retired and sold to Singapore, to be converted and upgraded by Douglas into A-4S-1s and later into A-4SU ‘Super Skyhawks’. With its Harrier fleet completed, Dédalo then typically carried an air group of eight AV-8S fighters, four Sea King antisubmarine warfare helicopters and four AB 212ASW Twin Hueys.
General characteristics:
Crew: one
Length: 41 ft 9 in (12.72 m) overall
40 ft 1.5 in (12.230 m) fuselage only
Wingspan: 26 ft 6 in (8.38 m)
Height: 15 ft (4.57 m)
Wing area: 259 ft² (24.15 m²)
Airfoil: NACA 0008-1.1-25 root, NACA 0005-0.825-50 tip
Empty weight: 9,146 lb (4,152 kg)
Loaded weight: 18,300 lb (8,318 kg)
Max. takeoff weight: 24,500 lb (11,136 kg)
Powerplant:
1× Curtiss-Wright J65-W-16A turbojet with 7,700 lbf (34 kN)
Performance:
Maximum speed: 575 kn (661 mph, 1,064 km/h)
Range: 1,700 nmi (2,000 mi, 3,220 km)
Combat radius: 625 nmi, 1,158 km
Service ceiling: 42,250 ft (12,880 m)
Rate of climb: 8,440 ft/min (43 m/s)
Wing loading: 70.7 lb/ft² (344.4 kg/m²)
Thrust/weight: 0.51
g-limit: +8/-3 g
Armament:
2× 20 mm (0.79 in) Colt Mk 12 cannon with 200 RPG in the wing roots
5× hardpoints for a total payload of up to 5,000 lbs (2,268 kg)
- 1× Centerline: 3,500 lbs (1.600 kg) capability
- 2× Inboard wing: 2,200 lbs (1.000 kg) capability each
- 2× Outboard wing: 1,000 lbs (454 kg) capability each
[b]The kit and its assembly:[/b]
This simple project was built on short notice after a 1-week extension had been issued for the “Sixties” Group Build at whatifmodellers.com. I had the idea for a Spanish Navy Skyhawk for some time and already stashed away a kit (Airfix, new mould) and a decal sheet from a Special Hobby AH-1 in Spanish markings – but originally planned to assemble it during a “One Week GB”.
However, since the aircraft would fall into the Sixties’ time frame and had nothing else on the work bench I decided to add a final/3rd entry into the GB.
The Airfix A-4B/Q kit goes together nicely, even though the plastic appeared a bit soft and somewhat waxy. It was basically built OOB, using the A-4Q’s small dorsal hump for AGM-12 avionics, and with a modified nose: I transplanted the small conical radome from an IAI Kfir onto the Skyhawk’s nose, what made it IMHO look like a prototype aircraft, added an bulged fairing for the AGM-12’s guidance antenna behind it (the small blade antenna on the front landing gear cover does this job in real life!) for an even different look, and I added scratched ejection trigger handles to the seat. The flaps and the air brakes were, after the photo session, mounted in open/extended position, and the ordnance was changed to a pair of AGM-12A Bullpups on scratched launch rails on the outer underwing pylons (IIRC left over from a Fujimi A-4C kit).
[b]Painting and markings:[/b]
Inspiration came from the small Spanish AH-1G Cobra fleet: I wondered if an naval attack aircraft would have carried the same attractive all-blue livery (probably FS35042, USN Gloss Sea Blue, but in photos the AH-1s appear darker and less greenish)? Therefore, the paint scheme was easily settled, even though I used a darker and rather dull/greyish tone as a basis: Humbrol 112 (Tarmac). The landing gear wells and the air intakes were painted gloss white, while the inside of the flaps and the air brakes became bright red – a stark contrast, but very attractive, together with the bright markings.
The cockpit was painted in medium grey.
After basic painting the kit received a black ink washing and some panel shading, in this case with FS35042, because it would subtly add some plasticity
The markings are a mix of decals from a Special Hobby AH-1, together with wing roundels from an AV-8S Matador and some other small bits. The St. Andrews flag on the fin was improvised with generic decal material – even though it was a bit overdone because no Spanish Navy aircraft carries this marking, only the air force machines – and Spanish P-3As in their early USN-style livery? It is, however, a nice detail, and to make it not too obtrusive I limited the fin flash to the rudder’s tip – even though it still stands out on the all dark blue airframe.
Thin white decal lines were used to create the canopy seals, the red warning markings around the air intakes were created with decals (from the optional Argentinian A-4Q from the Airfix kit, very convenient for a Spanish aircraft) and paint.
The kit was sealed with a coat of semi-gloss acrylic varnish, for a clean and shiny look, and the metallic exhaust and the jet pipe were treated with graphite to make the area look darker and burnt.
A quick build, realized over a weekend, even though, due to the Humbrol 112’s poor quality, the finish did not turn out as clean as I had hoped for. The all-blue livery, together with the red and yellow roundels and the other bold marking, suit the Skyhawk very well, it looks IMHO very attractive in this guise, despite the scheme’s simplicity.
A perfect trio, which make the Raspberry Pi into an extensible, powerful arduino-like platform, protecting the GPIO from harm.
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"Hasta que las cosas y los cuerpos sean como queremos que sean" no es un ciclo de cine. Se trata más bien de un conjunto de obras audio/visuales que se oponen a la norma, a la taxonomía, al paradigma biológico de lo ‘natural’, a la Realidad con mayúscula y unívoca, a la pureza y al binarismo. Atravesadas todas ellas por la relación entre tecnología y género (entendido éste como un constructo social no limitado únicamente a la norma sexual, sino extensible a todo sistema de dominación identitaria), las piezas comisariadas abordan la (de)construcción de cuerpos y roles desde una perspectiva queer, tecno(dis)útopica, a veces mística; recuperan ese potencial liberador primigenio del ciberespacio y las telecomunicaciones, convirtiéndolas en herramientas para trascender la carne; se agencian el código estético y narrativo propio de internet, lo subvierten; son fracturas, manifiestos, (auto)retratos, (hiper)conexiones. Ruidos que proponen una mirada autónoma e independiente de estándares (a veces colectiva pero siempre ‘alien’) sobre la propia imagen, que buscan borrarla y retomarla de nuevo, jugar con ella, erotizarla, moldearla, pixelarla, sobreexponerla y volver a borrarla hasta que las cosas y los cuerpos sean como queremos que sean.
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& quot; Until things and bodies are as we want them to be & quot; it is not a film series. Rather, it is a set of audio / visual works that oppose the norm, the taxonomy, the biological paradigm of the ‘natural’, the Reality with a capital and univocal letter, purity and binarism. All of them traversed by the relationship between technology and gender (understood as a social construct not limited only to the sexual norm, but extended to any system of identity domination), the curated pieces address the (de) construction of bodies and roles from a queer perspective, techno (dis) utopian, sometimes mystical; they recover that original liberating potential of cyberspace and telecommunications, turning them into tools to transcend the flesh; they get together the aesthetic and narrative code of the internet, subvert it; they are fractures, manifestos, (self) portraits, (hyper) connections. Noises that propose an autonomous and standards-independent gaze (sometimes collective but always 'alien') on the image itself, which seek to erase it and retake it again, play with it, eroticize it, mold it, pixelate it, overexpose it and erase it again until things and bodies are as we want them to be.
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+++ DISCLAIMER +++
Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!
Some background:
The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk was a single seat subsonic carrier-capable attack aircraft developed for the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps in the early 1950s. The delta winged, single turbojet engine Skyhawk was designed and produced by Douglas Aircraft Company, and later by McDonnell Douglas. It was originally designated A4D under the U.S. Navy's pre-1962 designation system. The Skyhawk was a relatively lightweight aircraft with a maximum takeoff weight of 24,500 pounds (11,100 kg) in its late versions and had a top speed of more than 670 miles per hour (1,080 km/h). Late versions were capable of carrying a bomb load equivalent to that of a World War II-era Boeing B-17 bomber and the aircraft supported a variety of missiles, bombs, and other munitions, including nuclear stores. The type saw an intensive career with the US Navy and the US Marine Corps during the Vietnam War era and was furthermore exported and operated by a wide range of countries all over the world, serving well into the 21st century.
One of the Skyhawk’s minor operators was Spain, specifically the Spanish Navy (Armada). Like the rest of the Spanish armed forces, the Spanish Navy had maintained Franco's policy of neutrality during World War II. Since the mid-20th century the Spanish Navy began a process of reorganization to become once again one of the major navies of the world. This not only included ships and submarines, but also an aerial warfare branch for coastal defense and to support the Infantería de Marina, the Spanish Navy Marines Corps. After the development of the Baleares-class frigates based on the US Navy's Knox class the Spanish Navy embraced the American naval doctrine and started to look for a light modern fighter bomber to equip a land-based attack squadron, with the prospect to eventually obtain an aircraft carrier and use the aircraft from it.
The choice fell in 1960 on the Douglas A-4, which offered a modern, compact and simple airframe with the desired option to operate the aircraft from older, smaller World War II-era aircraft carriers. These were still used by many smaller navies during the 1960s, and the Spanish Navy envisioned the procurement of one of more of these ships as operational basis for the new jet fighter force. These older ships were often unable to accommodate newer Navy fighters such as the F-4 Phantom II and F-8 Crusader, which were faster and more capable than the A-4, but significantly larger, heavier, complex and also costly than older naval fighters.
The Spanish Navy ordered a total of eighteen new Skyhawks from the USA, fourteen single-seaters and four trainers, locally called SA-4. The Armada’s Skyhawk attack variant was based on the A4D-2 (re-designated A-4B after 1962) but had, compared with the original US Navy aircraft, improved flight control systems and navigation, including an AN/APN-141 radar altimeter and a state-of-the-art AN/ASN-19A navigation computer. The trainers were equivalent with the US Navy's contemporary TA-4J variant.
Unlike the original A-4Bs, which lacked a radar and were therefore only suited for daytime operations, the Armada’s SA-4Bs were outfitted with a compact Dassault-built Aida radar unit within the aircraft's more pointed nose, giving them a unique profile among the Skyhawk family. Like the USN A-4Bs, the Spanish machines all had air-to-air refueling capabilities in the form of a fixed refueling probe, even though it was a cranked variant (intruduced on Amercian machines with the contemporary A-4F) to avoid interferences with the Aida radar. The SA-4Bs furthermore had the ability to carry a center-mounted "buddy store", a large external fuel tank with a hose reel in the aft section and an extensible drogue refueling bucket.
Alongside the Aida radar unit, a Swedish-made SAAB bombing computer was added to increase bombing accuracy. Specific to these machines were a TACAN receiver and a braking parachute under the tail for land operations. Internal armament remained the original pair of American 20 mm (0.79 in) Colt Mk 12 cannon with 200 RPG in the wing roots. For the Spanish Navy the SA-4Bs were outfitted with two additional underwing hardpoints and avionics for AIM-9B Sidewinder AAMs, so that they could carry a broader range of ground attack ordnance and operate in a limited aerial defense role, too. The SA-4Bs also had provision for radio-guided AGM-12 Bullpup missiles, which were the Skyhawks’ primary anti-ship weapon at the time. The missile avionics were housed in a shallow dorsal hump while a guidance antenna was mounted in a small bulge in ahead of the front landing gear well, so that the machine did not have to carry a respective external pod that would block a hardpoint.
The Skyhawk’s service in Spain was not long, though. In 1967, the mothballed US American light WWII aircraft carrier USS Cabot was loaned to Spain, becoming Dédalo, and the loan was eventually converted to a sale in 1972. By that time, the SA-4Bs – originally painted all-over dark blue – had been re-painted in a US Navy-style high-visibility scheme in Light Gull Grey over Whit and were operating from land bases only, allocated to 7th Squadron at Rota Naval Base near Cádiz in Andalusia The original plan to operate the SA-4Bs from Dédalo came to nought because the ship turned out to be too small to carry and deploy the Skyhawks properly, and the ship’s wooden deck would not withstand the stress from the modern jets’ frequent aircraft starts and landings. A new all-metal deck was not possible, due to budget and weight issues. In consequence the Armada’s SA-4s remained land-based and the Spanish Navy employed Dédalo as a helicopter-only antisubmarine warfare carrier with the SH-3D Sea King.
Attempts to add a fixed-wing strikeforce to the venerable carrier were made, though: On 8 November 1972 a Hawker Siddeley Harrier was successfully tested on the Dédalo’s deck, a first in the history of the plane. It was decided to order and deploy short-take-off-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) AV-8S Matadors (AV-8A Harrier) when Dédalo was overhauled. Since the Harriers' downdraft on vertical landing would have damaged the wooden deck, protective metal sheathing was installed on the rear area of the flight deck – a very convenient compromise.
Spain's purchase of Harriers was complicated by long-standing political friction between the British and Spanish governments of the era, though, and even though the Harriers were manufactured in the UK they were sold to Spain only with the US acting as an intermediary. The lengthy negotiation process was bridged by the SA-4s as well as a batch of AH-1G Cobra attack helicopters.
The first batch of six AV-8S single seat and two TAV-8S two seat aircraft were delivered to the Armada Española throughout 1976 and started carrier operations. Due to budget limitations and to simplify maintenance and logistics, the Spanish navy decided in 1977 to phase the Skyhawks out in favor of the more versatile Harrier, which could provide both air defense and strike capabilities for the Spanish fleet. A second batch of five AV-8S aircraft, now directly procured from UK mainly to replace losses, was delivered in 1980-. With this delivery the Spanish Skyhawks were retired and sold to Singapore, to be converted and upgraded by Douglas into A-4S-1s and later into A-4SU ‘Super Skyhawks’. With its Harrier fleet completed, Dédalo then typically carried an air group of eight AV-8S fighters, four Sea King antisubmarine warfare helicopters and four AB 212ASW Twin Hueys.
General characteristics:
Crew: one
Length: 41 ft 9 in (12.72 m) overall
40 ft 1.5 in (12.230 m) fuselage only
Wingspan: 26 ft 6 in (8.38 m)
Height: 15 ft (4.57 m)
Wing area: 259 ft² (24.15 m²)
Airfoil: NACA 0008-1.1-25 root, NACA 0005-0.825-50 tip
Empty weight: 9,146 lb (4,152 kg)
Loaded weight: 18,300 lb (8,318 kg)
Max. takeoff weight: 24,500 lb (11,136 kg)
Powerplant:
1× Curtiss-Wright J65-W-16A turbojet with 7,700 lbf (34 kN)
Performance:
Maximum speed: 575 kn (661 mph, 1,064 km/h)
Range: 1,700 nmi (2,000 mi, 3,220 km)
Combat radius: 625 nmi, 1,158 km
Service ceiling: 42,250 ft (12,880 m)
Rate of climb: 8,440 ft/min (43 m/s)
Wing loading: 70.7 lb/ft² (344.4 kg/m²)
Thrust/weight: 0.51
g-limit: +8/-3 g
Armament:
2× 20 mm (0.79 in) Colt Mk 12 cannon with 200 RPG in the wing roots
5× hardpoints for a total payload of up to 5,000 lbs (2,268 kg)
- 1× Centerline: 3,500 lbs (1.600 kg) capability
- 2× Inboard wing: 2,200 lbs (1.000 kg) capability each
- 2× Outboard wing: 1,000 lbs (454 kg) capability each
[b]The kit and its assembly:[/b]
This simple project was built on short notice after a 1-week extension had been issued for the “Sixties” Group Build at whatifmodellers.com. I had the idea for a Spanish Navy Skyhawk for some time and already stashed away a kit (Airfix, new mould) and a decal sheet from a Special Hobby AH-1 in Spanish markings – but originally planned to assemble it during a “One Week GB”.
However, since the aircraft would fall into the Sixties’ time frame and had nothing else on the work bench I decided to add a final/3rd entry into the GB.
The Airfix A-4B/Q kit goes together nicely, even though the plastic appeared a bit soft and somewhat waxy. It was basically built OOB, using the A-4Q’s small dorsal hump for AGM-12 avionics, and with a modified nose: I transplanted the small conical radome from an IAI Kfir onto the Skyhawk’s nose, what made it IMHO look like a prototype aircraft, added an bulged fairing for the AGM-12’s guidance antenna behind it (the small blade antenna on the front landing gear cover does this job in real life!) for an even different look, and I added scratched ejection trigger handles to the seat. The flaps and the air brakes were, after the photo session, mounted in open/extended position, and the ordnance was changed to a pair of AGM-12A Bullpups on scratched launch rails on the outer underwing pylons (IIRC left over from a Fujimi A-4C kit).
[b]Painting and markings:[/b]
Inspiration came from the small Spanish AH-1G Cobra fleet: I wondered if an naval attack aircraft would have carried the same attractive all-blue livery (probably FS35042, USN Gloss Sea Blue, but in photos the AH-1s appear darker and less greenish)? Therefore, the paint scheme was easily settled, even though I used a darker and rather dull/greyish tone as a basis: Humbrol 112 (Tarmac). The landing gear wells and the air intakes were painted gloss white, while the inside of the flaps and the air brakes became bright red – a stark contrast, but very attractive, together with the bright markings.
The cockpit was painted in medium grey.
After basic painting the kit received a black ink washing and some panel shading, in this case with FS35042, because it would subtly add some plasticity
The markings are a mix of decals from a Special Hobby AH-1, together with wing roundels from an AV-8S Matador and some other small bits. The St. Andrews flag on the fin was improvised with generic decal material – even though it was a bit overdone because no Spanish Navy aircraft carries this marking, only the air force machines – and Spanish P-3As in their early USN-style livery? It is, however, a nice detail, and to make it not too obtrusive I limited the fin flash to the rudder’s tip – even though it still stands out on the all dark blue airframe.
Thin white decal lines were used to create the canopy seals, the red warning markings around the air intakes were created with decals (from the optional Argentinian A-4Q from the Airfix kit, very convenient for a Spanish aircraft) and paint.
The kit was sealed with a coat of semi-gloss acrylic varnish, for a clean and shiny look, and the metallic exhaust and the jet pipe were treated with graphite to make the area look darker and burnt.
A quick build, realized over a weekend, even though, due to the Humbrol 112’s poor quality, the finish did not turn out as clean as I had hoped for. The all-blue livery, together with the red and yellow roundels and the other bold marking, suit the Skyhawk very well, it looks IMHO very attractive in this guise, despite the scheme’s simplicity.
Damselflies are insects of the suborder Zygoptera in the order Odonata. They are similar to dragonflies, which constitute the other odonatan suborder, Anisoptera, but are smaller, have slimmer bodies, and most species fold the wings along the body when at rest. An ancient group, damselflies have existed since at least the Lower Permian, and are found on every continent except Antarctica.
The general body plan of a damselfly is similar to that of a dragonfly. The compound eyes are large but are more widely separated and relatively smaller than those of a dragonfly. Above the eyes is the frons or forehead, below this the clypeus, and on the upper lip the labrum, an extensible organ used in the capture of prey. The top of the head bears three simple eyes (ocelli), which may measure light intensity, and a tiny pair of antennae that serve no olfactory function but may measure air speed.
Adult damselflies catch and eat flies, mosquitoes, and other small insects. Often they hover among grasses and low vegetation, picking prey off stems and leaves with their spiny legs.
Source : wikipedia
+++ DISCLAIMER +++
Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!
Some background:
The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk was a single seat subsonic carrier-capable attack aircraft developed for the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps in the early 1950s. The delta winged, single turbojet engine Skyhawk was designed and produced by Douglas Aircraft Company, and later by McDonnell Douglas. It was originally designated A4D under the U.S. Navy's pre-1962 designation system. The Skyhawk was a relatively lightweight aircraft with a maximum takeoff weight of 24,500 pounds (11,100 kg) in its late versions and had a top speed of more than 670 miles per hour (1,080 km/h). Late versions were capable of carrying a bomb load equivalent to that of a World War II-era Boeing B-17 bomber and the aircraft supported a variety of missiles, bombs, and other munitions, including nuclear stores. The type saw an intensive career with the US Navy and the US Marine Corps during the Vietnam War era and was furthermore exported and operated by a wide range of countries all over the world, serving well into the 21st century.
One of the Skyhawk’s minor operators was Spain, specifically the Spanish Navy (Armada). Like the rest of the Spanish armed forces, the Spanish Navy had maintained Franco's policy of neutrality during World War II. Since the mid-20th century the Spanish Navy began a process of reorganization to become once again one of the major navies of the world. This not only included ships and submarines, but also an aerial warfare branch for coastal defense and to support the Infantería de Marina, the Spanish Navy Marines Corps. After the development of the Baleares-class frigates based on the US Navy's Knox class the Spanish Navy embraced the American naval doctrine and started to look for a light modern fighter bomber to equip a land-based attack squadron, with the prospect to eventually obtain an aircraft carrier and use the aircraft from it.
The choice fell in 1960 on the Douglas A-4, which offered a modern, compact and simple airframe with the desired option to operate the aircraft from older, smaller World War II-era aircraft carriers. These were still used by many smaller navies during the 1960s, and the Spanish Navy envisioned the procurement of one of more of these ships as operational basis for the new jet fighter force. These older ships were often unable to accommodate newer Navy fighters such as the F-4 Phantom II and F-8 Crusader, which were faster and more capable than the A-4, but significantly larger, heavier, complex and also costly than older naval fighters.
The Spanish Navy ordered a total of eighteen new Skyhawks from the USA, fourteen single-seaters and four trainers, locally called SA-4. The Armada’s Skyhawk attack variant was based on the A4D-2 (re-designated A-4B after 1962) but had, compared with the original US Navy aircraft, improved flight control systems and navigation, including an AN/APN-141 radar altimeter and a state-of-the-art AN/ASN-19A navigation computer. The trainers were equivalent with the US Navy's contemporary TA-4J variant.
Unlike the original A-4Bs, which lacked a radar and were therefore only suited for daytime operations, the Armada’s SA-4Bs were outfitted with a compact Dassault-built Aida radar unit within the aircraft's more pointed nose, giving them a unique profile among the Skyhawk family. Like the USN A-4Bs, the Spanish machines all had air-to-air refueling capabilities in the form of a fixed refueling probe, even though it was a cranked variant (intruduced on Amercian machines with the contemporary A-4F) to avoid interferences with the Aida radar. The SA-4Bs furthermore had the ability to carry a center-mounted "buddy store", a large external fuel tank with a hose reel in the aft section and an extensible drogue refueling bucket.
Alongside the Aida radar unit, a Swedish-made SAAB bombing computer was added to increase bombing accuracy. Specific to these machines were a TACAN receiver and a braking parachute under the tail for land operations. Internal armament remained the original pair of American 20 mm (0.79 in) Colt Mk 12 cannon with 200 RPG in the wing roots. For the Spanish Navy the SA-4Bs were outfitted with two additional underwing hardpoints and avionics for AIM-9B Sidewinder AAMs, so that they could carry a broader range of ground attack ordnance and operate in a limited aerial defense role, too. The SA-4Bs also had provision for radio-guided AGM-12 Bullpup missiles, which were the Skyhawks’ primary anti-ship weapon at the time. The missile avionics were housed in a shallow dorsal hump while a guidance antenna was mounted in a small bulge in ahead of the front landing gear well, so that the machine did not have to carry a respective external pod that would block a hardpoint.
The Skyhawk’s service in Spain was not long, though. In 1967, the mothballed US American light WWII aircraft carrier USS Cabot was loaned to Spain, becoming Dédalo, and the loan was eventually converted to a sale in 1972. By that time, the SA-4Bs – originally painted all-over dark blue – had been re-painted in a US Navy-style high-visibility scheme in Light Gull Grey over Whit and were operating from land bases only, allocated to 7th Squadron at Rota Naval Base near Cádiz in Andalusia The original plan to operate the SA-4Bs from Dédalo came to nought because the ship turned out to be too small to carry and deploy the Skyhawks properly, and the ship’s wooden deck would not withstand the stress from the modern jets’ frequent aircraft starts and landings. A new all-metal deck was not possible, due to budget and weight issues. In consequence the Armada’s SA-4s remained land-based and the Spanish Navy employed Dédalo as a helicopter-only antisubmarine warfare carrier with the SH-3D Sea King.
Attempts to add a fixed-wing strikeforce to the venerable carrier were made, though: On 8 November 1972 a Hawker Siddeley Harrier was successfully tested on the Dédalo’s deck, a first in the history of the plane. It was decided to order and deploy short-take-off-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) AV-8S Matadors (AV-8A Harrier) when Dédalo was overhauled. Since the Harriers' downdraft on vertical landing would have damaged the wooden deck, protective metal sheathing was installed on the rear area of the flight deck – a very convenient compromise.
Spain's purchase of Harriers was complicated by long-standing political friction between the British and Spanish governments of the era, though, and even though the Harriers were manufactured in the UK they were sold to Spain only with the US acting as an intermediary. The lengthy negotiation process was bridged by the SA-4s as well as a batch of AH-1G Cobra attack helicopters.
The first batch of six AV-8S single seat and two TAV-8S two seat aircraft were delivered to the Armada Española throughout 1976 and started carrier operations. Due to budget limitations and to simplify maintenance and logistics, the Spanish navy decided in 1977 to phase the Skyhawks out in favor of the more versatile Harrier, which could provide both air defense and strike capabilities for the Spanish fleet. A second batch of five AV-8S aircraft, now directly procured from UK mainly to replace losses, was delivered in 1980-. With this delivery the Spanish Skyhawks were retired and sold to Singapore, to be converted and upgraded by Douglas into A-4S-1s and later into A-4SU ‘Super Skyhawks’. With its Harrier fleet completed, Dédalo then typically carried an air group of eight AV-8S fighters, four Sea King antisubmarine warfare helicopters and four AB 212ASW Twin Hueys.
General characteristics:
Crew: one
Length: 41 ft 9 in (12.72 m) overall
40 ft 1.5 in (12.230 m) fuselage only
Wingspan: 26 ft 6 in (8.38 m)
Height: 15 ft (4.57 m)
Wing area: 259 ft² (24.15 m²)
Airfoil: NACA 0008-1.1-25 root, NACA 0005-0.825-50 tip
Empty weight: 9,146 lb (4,152 kg)
Loaded weight: 18,300 lb (8,318 kg)
Max. takeoff weight: 24,500 lb (11,136 kg)
Powerplant:
1× Curtiss-Wright J65-W-16A turbojet with 7,700 lbf (34 kN)
Performance:
Maximum speed: 575 kn (661 mph, 1,064 km/h)
Range: 1,700 nmi (2,000 mi, 3,220 km)
Combat radius: 625 nmi, 1,158 km
Service ceiling: 42,250 ft (12,880 m)
Rate of climb: 8,440 ft/min (43 m/s)
Wing loading: 70.7 lb/ft² (344.4 kg/m²)
Thrust/weight: 0.51
g-limit: +8/-3 g
Armament:
2× 20 mm (0.79 in) Colt Mk 12 cannon with 200 RPG in the wing roots
5× hardpoints for a total payload of up to 5,000 lbs (2,268 kg)
- 1× Centerline: 3,500 lbs (1.600 kg) capability
- 2× Inboard wing: 2,200 lbs (1.000 kg) capability each
- 2× Outboard wing: 1,000 lbs (454 kg) capability each
[b]The kit and its assembly:[/b]
This simple project was built on short notice after a 1-week extension had been issued for the “Sixties” Group Build at whatifmodellers.com. I had the idea for a Spanish Navy Skyhawk for some time and already stashed away a kit (Airfix, new mould) and a decal sheet from a Special Hobby AH-1 in Spanish markings – but originally planned to assemble it during a “One Week GB”.
However, since the aircraft would fall into the Sixties’ time frame and had nothing else on the work bench I decided to add a final/3rd entry into the GB.
The Airfix A-4B/Q kit goes together nicely, even though the plastic appeared a bit soft and somewhat waxy. It was basically built OOB, using the A-4Q’s small dorsal hump for AGM-12 avionics, and with a modified nose: I transplanted the small conical radome from an IAI Kfir onto the Skyhawk’s nose, what made it IMHO look like a prototype aircraft, added an bulged fairing for the AGM-12’s guidance antenna behind it (the small blade antenna on the front landing gear cover does this job in real life!) for an even different look, and I added scratched ejection trigger handles to the seat. The flaps and the air brakes were, after the photo session, mounted in open/extended position, and the ordnance was changed to a pair of AGM-12A Bullpups on scratched launch rails on the outer underwing pylons (IIRC left over from a Fujimi A-4C kit).
[b]Painting and markings:[/b]
Inspiration came from the small Spanish AH-1G Cobra fleet: I wondered if an naval attack aircraft would have carried the same attractive all-blue livery (probably FS35042, USN Gloss Sea Blue, but in photos the AH-1s appear darker and less greenish)? Therefore, the paint scheme was easily settled, even though I used a darker and rather dull/greyish tone as a basis: Humbrol 112 (Tarmac). The landing gear wells and the air intakes were painted gloss white, while the inside of the flaps and the air brakes became bright red – a stark contrast, but very attractive, together with the bright markings.
The cockpit was painted in medium grey.
After basic painting the kit received a black ink washing and some panel shading, in this case with FS35042, because it would subtly add some plasticity
The markings are a mix of decals from a Special Hobby AH-1, together with wing roundels from an AV-8S Matador and some other small bits. The St. Andrews flag on the fin was improvised with generic decal material – even though it was a bit overdone because no Spanish Navy aircraft carries this marking, only the air force machines – and Spanish P-3As in their early USN-style livery? It is, however, a nice detail, and to make it not too obtrusive I limited the fin flash to the rudder’s tip – even though it still stands out on the all dark blue airframe.
Thin white decal lines were used to create the canopy seals, the red warning markings around the air intakes were created with decals (from the optional Argentinian A-4Q from the Airfix kit, very convenient for a Spanish aircraft) and paint.
The kit was sealed with a coat of semi-gloss acrylic varnish, for a clean and shiny look, and the metallic exhaust and the jet pipe were treated with graphite to make the area look darker and burnt.
A quick build, realized over a weekend, even though, due to the Humbrol 112’s poor quality, the finish did not turn out as clean as I had hoped for. The all-blue livery, together with the red and yellow roundels and the other bold marking, suit the Skyhawk very well, it looks IMHO very attractive in this guise, despite the scheme’s simplicity.
Wheelchair Bound
I have to admit that I am guilty, as are many of us, of taking many things in life for granted. If I want to photograph and/ or just enjoy a scenic sunset, I can drive a short distance to the Cape Cod Canal and walk to any of a dozen “perfect spots”. On this evening, I witnessed a trio of mobility impaired young adults being given the opportunity to navigate the service road along the canal in their electronic joystick controlled powered wheelchairs. They were brought there to experience the simple pleasure of basking in the last rays of daylight. I know it was a thrill for them; it was an extensible life-lesson for me.