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Ferrari president Luca Di Montezemolo has resigned following a lean spell of success
“I leave after 23 unforgettable years”
Maranello, 10th September 2014
LUCA DI MONTEZEMOLO'S STATEMENT IN FULL
“Ferrari will have an important role to play within the FCA Group in the upcoming flotation on Wall Street. This will open up a new and different phase which I feel should be spearheaded by the CEO of the Group.
This is the end of an era and so I have decided to leave my position as Chairman after almost 23 marvellous and unforgettable years in addition to those spent at Enzo Ferrari’s side in the 1970s.
My thanks, first and foremost, to the exceptional Ferrari women and men from the factory, the offices, the race tracks and the markets across the world. They were the real architects of the company’s spectacular growth, its many unforgettable victories and its transformation into one of the world’s strongest brands.
A warm farewell and my thanks also to all of our technical and commercial partners, our dealers across the globe and, most particularly, the clients and collectors whose passion I so wholeheartedly share.
But my thoughts go also to our fans who have always supported us with great enthusiasm especially through the Scuderia’s most difficult moments.
Ferrari is the most wonderful company in the world. It has been a great privilege and honour to have been its leader. I devoted all of my enthusiasm and commitment to it over the years. Together with my family, it was, and continues to be, the most important thing in my life.
I wish the shareholders, particularly Piero Ferrari who has always been by my side, and everyone in the Company the many more years of success that Ferrari deserves.”
The video was recorded September 5, 2018, which was one of the last days of summer. It snowed in Banff eight days later. Up to 20 inches fell at upper elevations. We had driven to Calgary and flown south to a warmer climate the day before.
Members of the Coast Guard conduct ice rescue training by reeling in a simulated survivor in the water on a MARSARS Ice Rescue Safety Shuttle Sled at U.S. Coast Guard Station Alexandria Bay, New York, March 16, 2021. The Coast Guard Station provides law enforcement, search and rescue, as well as training throughout the surrounding areas up to the U.S./Canada border. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Bernardo Fuller)
Members of the class of 2023 participate in the swimming portion of Sea Trials Aug 16, 2019 at the Academy. The swabs had to jump into the pool from the high-dive and then inflate their pants into flotation devices.
The 'Sunlight' pictured underway on the Manning River circa 1990 with a load of dredged oysters.
Details
Name:Sunlight
Type: Cream/milk collecting launch/oyster dredge
Length: 29ft 6in
Beam: 11ft 6in
Draft: 2ft 6in
Engine: 18-21 hp. Lister Diesel
Builder: William Oscar Ryan & son’s Built: Lower Manning Dairy Factory yard Mitchells Island. NSW
Launched: 7th December 1933 Scotts Creek NSW
Owners
- Lower Manning River Dairy Co-Op Pty Ltd. Manning River NSW (1933-1969)
- Thomas Levi Laurie - Croki/Manning River /Oyster Farmer (1969- 1972)
- William & Kate Mc Dougall - Croki/Manning River /Oyster Farmers (1972-1980)
- Warren & Pam Whitley – Croki/Manning River /Oyster Farmers (1980 – 2005)
- Michael & Jo Barlin -Manning River NSW (Hard Stand 2005 -2019)
- Cundletown Museum NSW (2019-) Hard Stand Exhibit under restoration.
Construction
Keel/Deadwood: Ironbark
Ribs: Spotted Gum
Knees: Teatree
Planks: Carvel- Copper sheathed to waterline.
Transom: Square
Stem: Raked
Deck: Beech
Roof: Covering deck, tongue & groove hardwood covered in malthoid on stanchion supports.
Deckhouse: Spotted Gum painted white - Forward & Side windows.
Engine room: Amidships.
Colour Scheme: White hull – Brown beltings – Green under roof.
History
1933 - New Factory Launch
Considered the “baby of the fleet”, the Sunlight was built to replace a launch built over 35 years ago by Mr Allan Kell, and bought second hand by the factory off Mr. Ned Geary.
The Sunlight was purposely built 10ft shorter than the Sun and Sunrise II, with a narrower beam and shallower draught to navigate the smaller creeks that were the access to many farms on the lower reaches of the Manning River.
The unfinished Sunlight was launched some weeks earlier than the official date, but was taken back out to have her bottom coppered and the installation of her engine.
The completed Sunlight was relaunched on Thursday the 7th December, completing her trials the next day. Her successful maiden run was on the 9th December around Oxley Island for cream, then put on the Ghinni Creek run.
The Sunlight continued operating daily (sometimes twice a day in the summer months) collecting cans of milk from the dairy farms of the lower reaches of the Manning River for 36 years of service.
Maintenance and Repairs
The following extracts are taken from records held by the Cundletown Museum and cover a period dating from January 1946 to November 1969 regarding some of the major maintenance and repairs carried out on the Sunlight.
January 1949 – Decking renewed down wings and in front of engine room.
March 1951 – New BVSHM engine installed – new propeller. September 1952 - Ryan’s fitted new beltings on both sides & tuck from cover boards.
July 1955- Lost propeller blade through Ghinni Creek, fitted new prop.
May 1957- Renewed forward and aft deck beams, fitted 6x44 gallon drums for flotation.
New Life in 1969
After a long life of carrying milk the Sunlight took on a new role, still remaining on the Manning River she was sold to T.L. Laurie on the 21st April 1969 for $2000, and was converted to an oyster dredge.
Dredging of oysters is a method of harvesting oysters which have been placed on the river bed to grow to maturity.
The practice involves towing a dredge along the bottom of the estuary in order to collect wide populations of oysters. The dredge is then winched up back to the boat and the catch emptied. The dredge itself consists of a steel frame fabricated into the shape of a scoop. The frame is then covered in chain mesh, and functions as a net. After dredging, small oysters are thrown back on the beds to allow the further settlement of spat.
Conversion of the Sunlight
The cabin was moved forward and modified from its midships position and steel rails fitted to the underside of roof to winch the dredge along deck. In the early 1990’s, the copper sheathing was removed from the underside and hull fibre glassed. In the late 1990’s the dredge gear was modified to a swinging arm design fitted with a hydraulic transmission with Ford engine, rated to 160h.p.
Passing through three generations of the one family the Sunlight spent the next 35years of her life harvesting these tasty molluscs from the waters around Croki on the lower reaches of the Manning River.
2005 - 2019
The Sunlight was acquired by Michael Barlin and placed on hard stand at his property.
In October 2019 the Sunlight was purchased by the Cundletown Museum and is on permanent display in the museum grounds.
The Sunlight is undergoing restoration by museum volunteers to bring her back to how it looked when she first went into service as milk boat.
Image Source
Image courtesy of Warren & Pam Whitley
Photographed by Ian Thorpe
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The Kapok tree is an emergent tree of the tropical rainforests, and is often described as majestic. It can grow to a height of 150 feet or more, towering over other trees in the rainforest. Originally a native to South America it now has spread to the primary rainforests of West Africa, and the Southeast Asian rainforests of the Malay Peninsula, and the Indonesian archipelago.
The straight trunks are cylindrical, smooth and gray in color, and can reach a diameter of 9 feet. Large spines protrude from the trunk to discourage damage to the trunk. Thin, plank type buttresses stabilize the giant and can extend to 30 feet. The wood is a pinkish white to ashy brown in color, with a
straight grain. The branches grow in horizontal tiers, and spread widely.
The crown has an open umbrella shape. Many plants and animals grow and live in the branches of the kapok tree. Birds nest in it, and mammals use the huge branches as highways. Frogs breed in the pools of water that collect in the bromeliads.
Kapoks are drought deciduous. This means they shed most or all of their leaves during the tropical dry season. The dry season occurs during the northern hemisphere winter. The leaves are palmate and compound. The 5-9 leaflets are 7-8 cm long and 1-3.5 cm wide. Flowers usually open before the leaves appear, and are clustered on small, new branches. The 5 petals of a flower are about 2.5 cm long and are a creamy white or pale pink in color. Their odor is unpleasan, but is probably meant to attract the bats that pollinate them. The brown seeds are round like peas and are found in pods. The pods are woody, smooth and pendulous, with a light green color. They will burst open while still on the tree after the leaves have fallen. Inside a whitish cotton like fiber surrounds the brown seeds. These are born away on the wind. Most emergent trees will have wind borne seeds because they rise above the stagnant air of the rainforest and can take advantage of the breezes which blow there. Fruit bearing plants close to the forest floor rely on animals to eat and disperse their seeds, which will fall to the ground when ripe, and which are normally covered with a thick, appetizing pulp.
In many places the straight trunks of the kapok tree are used to make dugout canoes. The white, fluffy seed covering is used in pillows and mattresses. Since it is buoyant and water resistant it is often used in flotation devices and padding. The seeds, leaves, bark and resin have been used to treat dysentery, fever, asthma, and kidney disease. In Mayan myths the kapok tree was sacred. They believed that the souls of the dead would climb up into the branches which reached into heaven.
The kapok tree is widely spread around the world and occupies an important niche in the ecosystem of a rainforest. Emergent trees like the kapok rise above the canopy of the rainforest and provide a home for plants dependent on sunlight. Their branches provide a habitat for countless epiphytes, which provide food and shelter for many types or animals. They allow animals to move around the rainforest without coming down to the ground. Monkeys who venture out to the tops of emergent trees are easy prey for eagles.
There is no status on the kapok tree. Its timber is desirable because of the great length of its trunks, the beautiful color of its wood, and its straight grain. People of the rainforest have many uses for the kapok tree. As with many desirable things, too many people may want to exploit the kapok tree and put its future in jeopardy.
Some photos of a month long trip around Peru, we covered a lot on this trip traveling from Lima to Pisco, then the bay of Paracas with the beautiful Ballestas islands.
Then to Ica and the Oasis at Huacachina, Nasca and the amazing lines in the dessert as well as the mummy cemetery at Chauchilla. Later to Arequipa the colca canyon with its condors, and from the Colca to Puno and Lake Titicaca visiting Taquile, Amantani, and the floating islands the Uros.
The last leg of the trip included Cuzco, the Sacred Valley, the Inca Trail, Machu Picchu, and some days at a jungle lodge in Puerto Maldonado.
A fantastic trip, covering some of the best sights Peru has to offer.
This duplex drive tank has an alternate transmission that has allowed it to drive through the water view propellers, a flotation screen that has kept it from sinking, and snorkels that vent its engine above the waterline. More importantly, this DD tank, unlike many of its stablemates, made it to shore rather than sinking. The crew are equal parts astonished and relieved.
This Apollo CM window arrived today, and she is a beauty - incredibly flat and non-reflective and hard to photograph. Thanks Rocketeer!
I went for a weightless still life with a fading reflection on the Apollo 14 landing site...
From analysis with Spaceaholic, this is a Block 1 micrometerorite panel, the outermost layer of the observation window on the Command Module.
The Rocketeer’s uncle used to work for North American Rockwell, and he told me the background by phone: This was one of three spare windows, and he bought all three from a back lot garage sale offered to employees at the end of the Apollo program. The other windows were since stolen. They were “the only spares we had”, so they were not tied to any particular capsule or program. They were very flat and smooth to 1 micron so they could be etched with a line that could assist in reentry horizon alignment (if all guidance systems failed, the etched line could be used to aim for the narrow reentry corridor). He was involved with post-flight capsule inspection. They also built two Rescue Command Modules, with seating for five, so they could end two astronauts up to rescue a possibly crippled mission with a crew of three. They had Saturn boosters ready to go with 72-hour notice.
Other space artifacts in the photo:
• Core Stem from the Lunar Surface Drill: a foot-long section of hollow core tube drill, used in training by the Apollo astronauts. Details below
• Apocryphal Gemini Flotation Ball: After Gus Grissom's Mercury spacecraft Liberty Bell 7 sank after splashdown, Gus insisted on naming the Gemini spacecraft "The Unsinkable Molly Brown." When asked for a more respectable name, he offered “The Titanic”. The hollow and lightweight sphere here has been described in several auctions (example, another, discussion) as one of several flotation spheres to help maintain the Gemini spacecraft's buoyancy. Why people would think this is a bit of a mystery. Anyone have direct experience with these? Perhaps the spheres were used for testing Cg (center of gravity) shifts on buoyancy, leading to the confusion. For the flight article, we turn to Page 224 of the 1968 GEMINI TECHNICAL SUMMARY report: “The flotation characteristics are a function of the cg location. To improve the flotation attitude, additional flotation material (styrofoam) was installed under the equipment in the side bays and inside the RCS."
"U.S. Navy Pararescueman Lt. Clancey Hatleberg disinfects Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., in life raft during recovery operations today at the completion of their successful lunar landing mission. The space pilots donned Biological Isolation Garments in their spacecraft."
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Credit: The Planetary Society website
Excellent & pertinent reading:
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Credit: issuu website
Lana in a life-jacket on board the flotation bundle down the Dommel river. Bundle is made of reed and willow branches wrapped in plastic and a badly blancoed 1 tonne truck tarp tarp.
Members of the Coast Guard conduct ice rescue training by reeling in a simulated survivor in the water on a MARSARS Ice Rescue Safety Shuttle Sled at U.S. Coast Guard Station Alexandria Bay, New York, March 16, 2021. The Coast Guard Station provides law enforcement, search and rescue, as well as training throughout the surrounding areas up to the U.S./Canada border. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Bernardo Fuller)
Members of the class of 2023 participate in the swimming portion of Sea Trials Aug 16, 2019 at the Academy. The swabs had to jump into the pool from the high-dive and then inflate their pants into flotation devices.
2016
French number:
8200/3750/1
No. Registration
GV 642542 R
Registration District
GV The Guilvinec
Type, series, or local name
Meandering canoe
Protected as Historic Monuments:
no
Website
Year of acquisition of the ship:
1986
Genre:
Maritime
Usage originally:
Peach
Propulsion mode (originally)
sail
Propulsion mode (current)
sail
Architect :
François VIVIER
Builder site
Internship Carpentry marine FRCM 29100 Douarnenez
Year of construction (or commissioning):
1986
Overall length :
7.52 m
Hull length:
7.52 m
Flotation length:
6.25 meters
Master Width bau:
2.68 m
Draught :
1.13m
Air draft:
9.8 m
Displacement (in tons):
3,2 t
Administrative tonnage (in barrels):
3.99 tx
Hull: type of construction, materials, special shapes ...
Carpentry oak, bordered fir 1 ford towers carved from fir 8.00m and 1 matt tape cut in fir 6.18m. Their feet are cut in square and their top is equipped with a raken for the passage of the halyard. The yards (7.14m and 3.88m) are also made of fir and rough-edged. Reenactment of a large canoe and tassel, from 1910-1930.
Hull: current state
Good condition
Bridge and superstructures: description, materials
Interior layout from the stern to the bow: a room to store equipment a bench that also serves to hold the mast of the tape-shot A bench and a stilt with gastouarne. The smooth includes as hardware: two bollards at the rear, and at the front and four toggles. No deck but a removable pine floor. Rear beach housing a small room. A bonnet.
Bridge and superstructures: current state
Good condition
Rigging: type, mast, running rigging, sleeping, materials
Auric sail on the third mast in fir. 1 listening, 1 end struck on a single double-stranded pulley on a bar, the other turned to the rear teat. Hemp-like rope (diam. 12 and 14 mm) 1 mast "tape ass" 1 listening, 1 end struck on a single pulley with double strop on a bar, the other turned to the rear teat. Hemp-like rope (diam. 12 and 14 mm)
Rigging: current status
Good condition
Sail: description, surfaces, materials
1 set of 37.7 m2 synthetic fabric (280 g / m2) stainless steel eyelet and 4 reefer bands, ocher color (+ 2 white pieces) 1 12.9 m2 synthetic tape (250 g / m2) ) with a band of reef, brown color
Sail: current state
Good condition
Emménagements: description, materials
A scull of about three meters and two karennou in pitchpin Security and lazarette in mobile crates, fragile material in the room.
Emménagements: current state
Good condition
Engine (s): type, power, year
Renault Couach Fixed diesel 28 Cv real 4 hp administrative 1987
Human testimony:
The workshops of hell in Douarnenez, Douarnenez Boat Museum Regional Federation for Maritime Culture
Technical or conceptual testimony:
Misainier in traditional timber, owned by the Misaine association which groups this type of old rigging.
Event testimonial or past activity:
Participate in many gatherings of old riggings and maritime festivals Feast of the Belle-Angele in Pont-Aven, gathering of the old hulls of Concarneau, Douarnenez time etc. Flown in South Brittany.
Other remarkable elements:
Significant slenderness increasing the sail's edge Reduced wet surface due to a strong sternstart and a weak draft to the brion. Construction as light as possible. Generous width and very marked bilge giving a stability for a very reduced ballast.
Owners' chronology, major modifications or renovations
a single owner: Boat built for the association La Misaine
Location: Department
29
Location: usual home port
La Forêt-Fouesnant, France
Offshore Sail Racing
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KAN BIHAN (GV339761) MMSI: 227665530. Call Sign FT5000. Fishing (longliner)
Characteristics.
Former liner / longliner of the Guilvinec flotilla.
Wooden motor boat built in 1975 in Plouhinec (56) (Kerzerho).
Size: 7m30 x 2m65.
Motor: 63 kw.
Tonnage (Gt / gross): 2.58 / 3.40 tx.
VHF code: FT5000.
MMSI: 227665530.
Home port: The Guilvinec.
Previously "SOFIANE" (LO-Lorient) until January 1994, then "L'OYAT" (AY-Auray) until February 2004, then "JAMADE" (AY-Auray) until April 2005.
Fisherman-owner: Aimé GUEGUEN.
The Port of Rotterdam, in The Netherlands, is the biggest port in Europe. In the "Hamburg - Le Havre Range" it surpasses Antwerp and Hamburg in tonnage, port size, diversities and miles of quayside.
To promote the port's activities and it's vital for the Dutch economy, the 33rd edition of the World Port Days was held on 2, 3 and 4 September 2011. The World Port Days are a festive and adventurous event for all ages. Along the river and quayside, visitors were offered a wide range of activities.
This year’s theme was 'Port of many flavours'. So, salvager "Smit International" took the opportunity to let children have their first taste of working at sea and in Rotterdam ....
An oil spill removal organization’s (OSRO) spill response operating team (SROT) maneuvers two response vessels to deploy PyroBoom® (the object that looks like a string of pearls in the foreground). The long ribbon structure with the metal flotation spheres is called PyroBoom®. The boom is used to corral and concentrate oil so that it can be burned in a spill response tactic termed in-situ burning. The metal components of the boom can withstand the high temperatures generated by burning oil and can be reused for future operations. BSEE Preparedness Analysts from the Oil Spill Preparedness Division (OSPD) regularly inspect these types of equipment and observe industry training and exercise activities to ensure compliance with regulations and to monitor the overall vigor of the oil spill preparedness and response community.
Photo by: Larry Howard, BSEE
A flotation device with a high chair used for shooting fishes with air-gun is seen at the Angono lakeside with the sun bursting in the background.
The Amphicars are ready if you want to take a quick ride before you dine at The Boathouse in Disney Springs. They even have a supply of rubber ducks to keep you company (and to act as emergency flotation devices if necessary).
“A U.S. Navy frogman, deployed from the hovering helicopter, swims next to the spacecraft and makes contact with Astronaut Cooper inside, as his fellow team members bring up the flotation gear to be attached to the spacecraft. The main chute floats at top left, and the ejected unused reserve chute floats at the lower right of the spacecraft in the green dye area.”
The faded/eroded (due to re-entry effects) 'Faith 7' logo can be seen on the capsule just above the waterline.
Looking at this, I can't help but think how many cool UDT recovery photos have never seen/will never see the light of day.
science.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/images/images/pao/MA9/100738...
Exposure
coiled wires
exposed
red and blue sleeves
slit
copper shine.
lines of power
desperately want to arch
in this dry air
Wolf
my eyes felt too large
better to see
death raging before me
a storm of hunger and blood
red
draped and hooded
with points of yellow
falling clumsy
in ringlets
LIGHT
my head is weightless
no waitless
impatient for real thoughts
that never seem to come
STONE
bird baths
open mouthed
stone sepulchres
waiting
for medusa’s hold to lessen
so they might feed once more
Tidal
there is a wet wind
between my teeth
my lungs
bellows weep
carry sounds
wordless
pain too great
beauty too sublime
singular
respiratory tides
Shroud
only for a second
the vision persisted
long enough
for my heart to stop
start and tremble
there is a sense
of covering white
draping over her form
almost shroud
eternal sleep
my fear reborn
GREEN
wind to the sun
writhe glide
wrapped vines
hung close-bodied
to man made trees
body language
expresses
solar adoration
prehistoric ease
Jun 26, 2014
3 notes
#poem #poetry
Art Piece
close and far
no sense of order
parallel
purple roads
on fallen snow
lead to edges
east
and west
MARS
Elisabeth Mars
Daughter to Jeremy and Nancy Mars
was born on the day of the storm
On that auspicious day
There was a black out
and a white out
Nancy died while giving birth
and Jeremy
had never felt so much pain and joy
in his entire existence
Elisabeth Storm Mars
Goddess of War
Loving Daughter
and the most dangerous of women
who always had victory on her mind
BEFORE
her foot was slick
water sugar slick
shoeless
submerged
in her own sweet
concoction
of love and preparation
Jun 25, 2014
1 note
#poem #poetry
During the Night
Blood more like water
thin cherry drink
transparent appendage
filling up with this
plastic pulse juice
I poured it out
and awoke
Follow
followed
the white of her back
then her
eyes
then her mind
then my heart
LEGS
frozen time
thaws
and moves swiftly
over the back of my hand
a centipede
of pictures and tears
RUN
Farther up the ridge
where the mountains loom
I ran
haltingly at first thirst
thirst drove me
then I ran with the wind
thirst calling
water to water
"I lift up my eyes unto the hills from whence shall come my help"
GLASS
Fragmented
I walked toward
the unbearable light
that drives a men
to sing
lullabyes
to their souls
Alchemy
She wore gold
earrings said to be the
teardrops of a giant
saline turned to gold
after being separated from his skin.
Giants rarely cried
but it was his wedding day
and they came unbidden
two perfect drops
that rang upon the stones
VOICE
i rode my voice home
opened the door
collapsed and cried
into pillows
made of red feathers
BLINDNESS
How much truth
can a human let in
at one time
before they become permanently blind
justice
with her scales
instead of her sword
lovers
with their gossamer sails
instead of their word
BARE
The fruit
hung like daggers over my skin
parted lips
neck
heart
bare
tied to the ground
with bonds
forged of
my own
whimsy
and iron will
Beauty
Let the air
in front of me
take your form
a flowing invisible relief
DROVE
i drove along the vertical
drove my blue soul system
red with anticipation
between the sky
and its transparent lines
till I met the empty air
breath a black memory
wind in my hair
DREAM
fold out card
poem inside
from a composite
3 past loves of mine
a piece
about how her
light always finds me
DRAW
wing white
outline graphite
flat paper smooth
bird still life
at the age of ten
SIGHT
why be scared of the blackest dark
with these lenses we let in light
embrace our sense of sight
navigate our moonless nights
SPECTRUM
box of colors
waxy spectrum
flotsam
jetsam
broken
torn paper boredom
so full
of wonder and sin
my childhood
EGO
love is a flotation device
inflate to its proper pressure
find ego river
and float
STARE
saw the grim stare
closed down
thunder
the depths of fury
the heights of wonder
silently cry
a song
Fail
flowers
are colors manifested
that we might try to understand them
and fail
happily fail
FILM
I took
translucent squares
and held them to frame bound light
letting myself relax
in my softened sun
my white film
exposed
to joy
only to be found
in the moment
HANDS
hold hands
dream
squeeze
let the juice of the future
flow liberally
between fingers
red
white
in love
FOREVER
when she cried over him
the tears may have looked clear
but they were red
for something in her bled
when he left
TENSION
she told me to love her like
ocean waves
I wanted
crash
she wanted calm
what we needed
was something tidal
full of moon and tension
Roses
her garden
of red and white roses
climb and creep
cover and heap
a delightful twisting mass
summoned by summer’s heat
BACKDROP
pizza slices of light
reflect on my window
darkness is just there
a frame in his cold hand
giving angles
a sense of place
PRINCESS
In her castle
She hides in her foldable space
magic framed in wood
white stretched
to its four corners
square drum head
silent
no rhythms form behind her walls
of “no one can see me”
touch me
feel me
HOOK
old ghosts haunt my soul
have found their way
have lightened their load
have made me bear
the weight of their sins
on my back wall
hanging hook
shiny from disuse
How did they find me
here in this
foreign land
of well tended trees
REMEMBER
boats of air and silk
on paper water
a still life
in my spine
PLANET
red storm
rewind
crash
flit through the past
inhale
Jupiter’s gas
rise
SONG
bird
grey and rust
scalloped shelled feathers
quick eyes
sharp beak
singing a melody
primal instead of sweet
a song of need
BARE
I lost my sadness
between my first and second skin
it hides away
in limbos invisible cookie tin
it can’t reach my eyes
but my heart knows
it’s there
waiting till I’m naked
bare
Emotional Exhalation
the plucked cord
the steam
everything we know of hate
and everything we hate in love
where is my social duty
my righteous cause
a paper anchor
for a mighty barge
where has my soul hidden itself
stay hidden I whispered
SILENCE
green sashes
lay limply over fallen ashes
surrounded by those
wanting but unwilling to scream
100 souls
self denial silence
burial mound scene
HOLD
hold
push button
freeze back send
hold
like time is meaningless
hand
THOUGHTS
I need a moment
to collect my
matchbook beetle thoughts
sticks of inspiration
movers of the Sun
wood and chitin
Prometheus and Ra
PASSING
Under the earth
where the wild things work
I hid my love away
under rocks and roots
a dirge of flutes
I buried my love away
POP UP
my pop book had a sunrise
my heart a pop up smile
your tongue
a pop up lie
but it was
all so one dimensional
that we failed to care
GRIN
The wolves inside are hungry
cold eyes
lowering my lids to half slits
color layers lost
to greys and harsh yellows
sanity fleeing
before a hundred pulses
cue “fanatic grin”
Last Breath
I don’t believe
that my last breath
will take any specific shape
but I believe
it will be beautiful nonetheless
A water-level view of Apollo 13 recovery operations in the South Pacific. The three Astronauts are seen egressing their spacecraft. John L. Swigert Jr. (back to camera), Command Module Pilot, is already in the life raft. Fred W. Haise Jr., Lunar Module Pilot, is stepping into the life raft. James A. Lovell Jr., Commander, is leaving the spacecraft in the background. A U.S. Navy underwater demolition team assists with the recovery operations. The three crewmen were picked up by helicopter and flown to the prime recovery ship, USS Iwo Jima. Apollo 13 Command Module ‘Odyssey’ splashed down at 12:07:44 p.m. (CST), 17 April 1970, to safely conclude a perilous space flight. Although the lunar landing was cancelled, the disastrous loss of three Astronauts was averted.
TRULY awesome.
I have doubts about the authenticity of the signature.
My entry for the Lugnuts 100th challenge on this site. This vehicle is a fictional Mercedes truck nicknamed the Coelacanth.
Background: The Mercedes-Benz Modular Special Electric Truck, or MSET, is a large vehicle designed to go where no other truck can, especially on other planets. A MSET can be configured with any number of options, depending on the task required. Multi wheel steering and all wheel drive ensure mobility, while specialized seals protect the drivetrain components and crew. This particular model, nicknamed the Coelacanth, due to its shape and coloration, is a 4 axle tractor connected to a 3 axle powered trailer, resulting in an articulated 14x14 vehicle. Attached to the back is an 80 ton capacity knuckle boom crane, for lifting and placing machinery. The crane is far more compact and maneuverable than any comparable straight boom crane, while the wheeled drive system provides more speed than a tracked crane. All equipment is carried on the crane, eliminating the need for separate support vehicles. The crane can either be controlled remotely, from the outside, or from the inside, through a VR system connected to wide angle cameras located on the outriggers and at the head of the crane boom. As well, the crane has an extendable counterweight system, providing increased capacity at radius. The truck itself has a hybrid range extender consisting of a methanol based steam generator and a compact radioisotope generator, which in turn feed the truck's bank of ultra-capacitors. The methanol generator is far safer and easier to fuel than a hydrogen fuel cell, while the radioisotope generator will recharge the truck, which is useful when external fueling is not an option. The tires of the truck, while they look like rubber, are not, and are actually made of a special carbon nanotube mesh, supported by internal springs, resulting in a light and durable tire that does not rely on air pressure, but can be programmed to adapt to terrain. In addition, this example has wheels that incorporate extendable grousers, which can widen the contact patch of the tire by a 50% margin, greatly increasing flotation.
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Apollo Boilerplate Command Module
NASA built several "boilerplate" Apollo command modules for testing and to train astronauts and other mission crew members. This one is made of aluminum with a fiberglass outer shell and has an actual command module hatch. It was used by Apollo astronauts, including the crew of Apollo 11, the first lunar landing mission, to practice routine and emergency exits. The interior was later fitted with actual or mockup components to simulate the Apollo-Soyuz spacecraft and the five-person rescue vehicle planned for use if an emergency developed during the Skylab program.
Boilerplate #1102A is displayed here with the flotation collar and bags that were attached to the Apollo 11 command module Columbia when it landed in the ocean at the end of its historic mission.
Apollo 11 Floatation Collar
On July 24, 1969, at the end of its historic Moon landing mission, the Apollo 11 command module Columbia splashed down in the Pacific, about 24 kilometers (15 miles) from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet. Navy swimmers jumped from a recovery helicopter into the water near the command module to stabilize it. They attached and inflated around it a custom-made flotation collar. To the flotation collar they fastened a large, seven-person raft. The three astronauts emerged from the spacecraft, climbed onto the raft, and donned special Biological Isolation Garments in preparation for their transfer to a quarantine facility on the Hornet.
The flotation collar attached to this command module trainer is the actual unit deployed during the recovery of Apollo 11.
Apollo 11 Floatation Bags
When an Apollo command module landed in the ocean, it could settle into one of two stable positions: nose up or nose down. Landing nose down left its recovery antennas underwater and increased the possibility that the spacecraft might flood. To turn the command module upright, three inflatable bags were installed in a forward compartment. In the event of a nose-down landing, astronauts could right the spacecraft by inflating the bags using two air compressors located in the aft (blunt) end of the spacecraft.
The three flotation bags attached to this command module trainer are the actual bags used on Apollo 11 at the end of ie lunar landing mission on July 24, 1969.
As a child of the beach, I would play "boats" with cuttlebones so I was fascinated to find barnacles encrusted to the edges of one, forming decorative florets and using it as their boat to migrate across the ocean.... No longer a flotation device for the dead cuttlefish, now re-purposed by the barnacles.
Informative displays inside the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose") describe the various cargo configurations possible in the plane's cargo bay. Beach balls were used as emergency flotation aids for the wings. Behind the beach balls is the cargo hold fire suppression equipment.
The aircraft was the brainchild of Henry J. Kaiser, a leading Liberty ship builder. He teamed with aircraft designer Howard Hughes to create what would become the largest aircraft built at that time. It was designed to carry 150,000 pounds, 750 fully equipped troops or two 30-ton M4 Sherman tanks.[7] The original designation "HK-1" reflected the Hughes and Kaiser collaboration.[8] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules — at Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum.
The man paddled calmly the length of Convict Lake and back with his best friend standing on the paddle board panting in the bright sun. The dog is wearing a life vest, but not his master.....
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Apollo Boilerplate Command Module
NASA built several "boilerplate" Apollo command modules for testing and to train astronauts and other mission crew members. This one is made of aluminum with a fiberglass outer shell and has an actual command module hatch. It was used by Apollo astronauts, including the crew of Apollo 11, the first lunar landing mission, to practice routine and emergency exits. The interior was later fitted with actual or mockup components to simulate the Apollo-Soyuz spacecraft and the five-person rescue vehicle planned for use if an emergency developed during the Skylab program.
Boilerplate #1102A is displayed here with the flotation collar and bags that were attached to the Apollo 11 command module Columbia when it landed in the ocean at the end of its historic mission.
Apollo 11 Floatation Collar
On July 24, 1969, at the end of its historic Moon landing mission, the Apollo 11 command module Columbia splashed down in the Pacific, about 24 kilometers (15 miles) from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet. Navy swimmers jumped from a recovery helicopter into the water near the command module to stabilize it. They attached and inflated around it a custom-made flotation collar. To the flotation collar they fastened a large, seven-person raft. The three astronauts emerged from the spacecraft, climbed onto the raft, and donned special Biological Isolation Garments in preparation for their transfer to a quarantine facility on the Hornet.
The flotation collar attached to this command module trainer is the actual unit deployed during the recovery of Apollo 11.
Apollo 11 Floatation Bags
When an Apollo command module landed in the ocean, it could settle into one of two stable positions: nose up or nose down. Landing nose down left its recovery antennas underwater and increased the possibility that the spacecraft might flood. To turn the command module upright, three inflatable bags were installed in a forward compartment. In the event of a nose-down landing, astronauts could right the spacecraft by inflating the bags using two air compressors located in the aft (blunt) end of the spacecraft.
The three flotation bags attached to this command module trainer are the actual bags used on Apollo 11 at the end of ie lunar landing mission on July 24, 1969.
Members of the Coast Guard walk off the dock after a successful day of ice rescue training at U.S. Coast Guard Station Alexandria Bay, New York, March 16, 2021. The Coast Guard Station provides law enforcement, search and rescue, as well as training throughout the surrounding areas up to the U.S./Canada border. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Bernardo Fuller)
Here's a sturdy little 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" hardcover coptic journal, one of the latest in my new marbled paper series. I created this marbled paper myself, using old school ink flotation techniques to create a one of a kind sheet of blue, green and white marbled paper.
I hand-sewed the book using extremely strong waxed Irish linen thread, and the cover even has cute little metal grommets, which prevent the thread from wearing a groove in the cover.
The endpapers are also marbled, in a different style called Suminagashi where black Japanese ink is floated on water, then blown around to create these swirly topographic patterns.
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The lower section of Waggon Creek, West Coast. In this particular section the limestone walls are about 5m high on either side with no way out except the way you came in. Could you imagine this running fast and high as it does? At the end of this creek is a huge area filled with dead fall and tree debris that has made it's way down between these walls.
Waggon Creek develops into a cut that runs for about 3.5km between steep limestone walls covered in moss and ferns. I had to swim the deeper sections using my pack for flotation, quite unnerving as the water was black with tanin and I had thoughts of massive eels playing through my mind! A stunning place though, and one I might not get back to again.
Take a look at my Waggon Creek album which contains this plus many more images taken along the length of the cut that I was able to explore.
Members of the Coast Guard conduct ice rescue training by reeling in a simulated survivor in the water on a MARSARS Ice Rescue Safety Shuttle Sled at U.S. Coast Guard Station Alexandria Bay, New York, March 16, 2021. The Coast Guard Station provides law enforcement, search and rescue, as well as training throughout the surrounding areas up to the U.S./Canada border. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Bernardo Fuller)
Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim + Expired Kodak 800GT + Redscale + Double Exposure.
Both sides exposed two weekends ago, during a few days recuperative visit to Cornwall.
I did not line up the film, nor take notes, nor plan the compositions. I did decide to shoot the entire roll through twice while I was there..
The negatives were returned uncut as requested, but I did get lab scans. I have cropped where I feel it is most helpful to do so - the luck of the draw has meant there was very little (if any) frame overlaps on this roll, which made me very happy.
Redscaling.
Basically it involves taking a roll of ordinary 'bog standard' print film, reversing it and respooling it into another film canister (all done in a dark bag) so that the light is exposed on 'the wrong side of the film' when you take a shot. You then lose two 'stops' on the optimal exposure conditions from the original. It gets developed in exactly the same way as print film, but be prepared for the technician to be a little startled (at best) or a little irritated (at worst) when they realise that something very odd has happened to the film. :)
Snowmobile skipping, snowmobile watercross, snowmobile skimming, water skipping or puddle jumping is a sport and/or exhibition where snowmobile racers hydroplane their sleds across lakes or rivers. Watercross consists of crossing water while riding a snowmobile, which is possible because snowmobiles have wide tracks for traction and flotation in the snow. If one hits the water at an acceptable speed (5 mph per 150 lb or 12 km/h per 100 kg of weight) and keeps the sled's throttle open, the track keeps the snowmobile on the surface of the water without sinking. If the rider backs out of the throttle or the sled bogs or floods out, the sled will sink. A sunk sled is able to be revived by cleaning water out of the carburetor, exhaust, spark plugs, and replacing the fuel. The front of the sled is pitched upwards as riders commonly do in deep mountain powder snow.
Source: wikipedia.org
Members of the Coast Guard conduct ice rescue training by reeling in a simulated survivor in the water on a MARSARS Ice Rescue Safety Shuttle Sled at U.S. Coast Guard Station Alexandria Bay, New York, March 16, 2021. The Coast Guard Station provides law enforcement, search and rescue, as well as training throughout the surrounding areas up to the U.S./Canada border. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Bernardo Fuller)
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Apollo Boilerplate Command Module
NASA built several "boilerplate" Apollo command modules for testing and to train astronauts and other mission crew members. This one is made of aluminum with a fiberglass outer shell and has an actual command module hatch. It was used by Apollo astronauts, including the crew of Apollo 11, the first lunar landing mission, to practice routine and emergency exits. The interior was later fitted with actual or mockup components to simulate the Apollo-Soyuz spacecraft and the five-person rescue vehicle planned for use if an emergency developed during the Skylab program.
Boilerplate #1102A is displayed here with the flotation collar and bags that were attached to the Apollo 11 command module Columbia when it landed in the ocean at the end of its historic mission.
Apollo 11 Floatation Collar
On July 24, 1969, at the end of its historic Moon landing mission, the Apollo 11 command module Columbia splashed down in the Pacific, about 24 kilometers (15 miles) from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet. Navy swimmers jumped from a recovery helicopter into the water near the command module to stabilize it. They attached and inflated around it a custom-made flotation collar. To the flotation collar they fastened a large, seven-person raft. The three astronauts emerged from the spacecraft, climbed onto the raft, and donned special Biological Isolation Garments in preparation for their transfer to a quarantine facility on the Hornet.
The flotation collar attached to this command module trainer is the actual unit deployed during the recovery of Apollo 11.
Apollo 11 Floatation Bags
When an Apollo command module landed in the ocean, it could settle into one of two stable positions: nose up or nose down. Landing nose down left its recovery antennas underwater and increased the possibility that the spacecraft might flood. To turn the command module upright, three inflatable bags were installed in a forward compartment. In the event of a nose-down landing, astronauts could right the spacecraft by inflating the bags using two air compressors located in the aft (blunt) end of the spacecraft.
The three flotation bags attached to this command module trainer are the actual bags used on Apollo 11 at the end of ie lunar landing mission on July 24, 1969.
See more photos of this, and the Wikipedia article.
Details, quoting from Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Space Shuttle Enterprise:
Manufacturer:
Rockwell International Corporation
Country of Origin:
United States of America
Dimensions:
Overall: 57 ft. tall x 122 ft. long x 78 ft. wing span, 150,000 lb.
(1737.36 x 3718.57 x 2377.44cm, 68039.6kg)
Materials:
Aluminum airframe and body with some fiberglass features; payload bay doors are graphite epoxy composite; thermal tiles are simulated (polyurethane foam) except for test samples of actual tiles and thermal blankets.
The first Space Shuttle orbiter, "Enterprise," is a full-scale test vehicle used for flights in the atmosphere and tests on the ground; it is not equipped for spaceflight. Although the airframe and flight control elements are like those of the Shuttles flown in space, this vehicle has no propulsion system and only simulated thermal tiles because these features were not needed for atmospheric and ground tests. "Enterprise" was rolled out at Rockwell International's assembly facility in Palmdale, California, in 1976. In 1977, it entered service for a nine-month-long approach-and-landing test flight program. Thereafter it was used for vibration tests and fit checks at NASA centers, and it also appeared in the 1983 Paris Air Show and the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans. In 1985, NASA transferred "Enterprise" to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.
Transferred from National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Quoting from Wikipedia | Space Shuttle Enterprise:
The Space Shuttle Enterprise (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-101) was the first Space Shuttle orbiter. It was built for NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program to perform test flights in the atmosphere. It was constructed without engines or a functional heat shield, and was therefore not capable of spaceflight.
Originally, Enterprise had been intended to be refitted for orbital flight, which would have made it the second space shuttle to fly after Columbia. However, during the construction of Columbia, details of the final design changed, particularly with regard to the weight of the fuselage and wings. Refitting Enterprise for spaceflight would have involved dismantling the orbiter and returning the sections to subcontractors across the country. As this was an expensive proposition, it was determined to be less costly to build Challenger around a body frame (STA-099) that had been created as a test article. Similarly, Enterprise was considered for refit to replace Challenger after the latter was destroyed, but Endeavour was built from structural spares instead.
Service
Construction began on the first orbiter on June 4, 1974. Designated OV-101, it was originally planned to be named Constitution and unveiled on Constitution Day, September 17, 1976. A write-in campaign by Trekkies to President Gerald Ford asked that the orbiter be named after the Starship Enterprise, featured on the television show Star Trek. Although Ford did not mention the campaign, the president—who during World War II had served on the aircraft carrier USS Monterey (CVL-26) that served with USS Enterprise (CV-6)—said that he was "partial to the name" and overrode NASA officials.
The design of OV-101 was not the same as that planned for OV-102, the first flight model; the tail was constructed differently, and it did not have the interfaces to mount OMS pods. A large number of subsystems—ranging from main engines to radar equipment—were not installed on this vehicle, but the capacity to add them in the future was retained. Instead of a thermal protection system, its surface was primarily fiberglass.
In mid-1976, the orbiter was used for ground vibration tests, allowing engineers to compare data from an actual flight vehicle with theoretical models.
On September 17, 1976, Enterprise was rolled out of Rockwell's plant at Palmdale, California. In recognition of its fictional namesake, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and most of the principal cast of the original series of Star Trek were on hand at the dedication ceremony.
Approach and landing tests (ALT)
Main article: Approach and Landing Tests
On January 31, 1977, it was taken by road to Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, to begin operational testing.
While at NASA Dryden, Enterprise was used by NASA for a variety of ground and flight tests intended to validate aspects of the shuttle program. The initial nine-month testing period was referred to by the acronym ALT, for "Approach and Landing Test". These tests included a maiden "flight" on February 18, 1977 atop a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) to measure structural loads and ground handling and braking characteristics of the mated system. Ground tests of all orbiter subsystems were carried out to verify functionality prior to atmospheric flight.
The mated Enterprise/SCA combination was then subjected to five test flights with Enterprise unmanned and unactivated. The purpose of these test flights was to measure the flight characteristics of the mated combination. These tests were followed with three test flights with Enterprise manned to test the shuttle flight control systems.
Enterprise underwent five free flights where the craft separated from the SCA and was landed under astronaut control. These tests verified the flight characteristics of the orbiter design and were carried out under several aerodynamic and weight configurations. On the fifth and final glider flight, pilot-induced oscillation problems were revealed, which had to be addressed before the first orbital launch occurred.
On August 12, 1977, the space shuttle Enterprise flew on its own for the first time.
Preparation for STS-1
Following the ALT program, Enterprise was ferried among several NASA facilities to configure the craft for vibration testing. In June 1979, it was mated with an external tank and solid rocket boosters (known as a boilerplate configuration) and tested in a launch configuration at Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39A.
Retirement
With the completion of critical testing, Enterprise was partially disassembled to allow certain components to be reused in other shuttles, then underwent an international tour visiting France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the U.S. states of California, Alabama, and Louisiana (during the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition). It was also used to fit-check the never-used shuttle launch pad at Vandenberg AFB, California. Finally, on November 18, 1985, Enterprise was ferried to Washington, D.C., where it became property of the Smithsonian Institution.
Post-Challenger
After the Challenger disaster, NASA considered using Enterprise as a replacement. However refitting the shuttle with all of the necessary equipment needed for it to be used in space was considered, but instead it was decided to use spares constructed at the same time as Discovery and Atlantis to build Endeavour.
Post-Columbia
In 2003, after the breakup of Columbia during re-entry, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board conducted tests at Southwest Research Institute, which used an air gun to shoot foam blocks of similar size, mass and speed to that which struck Columbia at a test structure which mechanically replicated the orbiter wing leading edge. They removed a fiberglass panel from Enterprise's wing to perform analysis of the material and attached it to the test structure, then shot a foam block at it. While the panel was not broken as a result of the test, the impact was enough to permanently deform a seal. As the reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC) panel on Columbia was 2.5 times weaker, this suggested that the RCC leading edge would have been shattered. Additional tests on the fiberglass were canceled in order not to risk damaging the test apparatus, and a panel from Discovery was tested to determine the effects of the foam on a similarly-aged RCC leading edge. On July 7, 2003, a foam impact test created a hole 41 cm by 42.5 cm (16.1 inches by 16.7 inches) in the protective RCC panel. The tests clearly demonstrated that a foam impact of the type Columbia sustained could seriously breach the protective RCC panels on the wing leading edge.
The board determined that the probable cause of the accident was that the foam impact caused a breach of a reinforced carbon-carbon panel along the leading edge of Columbia's left wing, allowing hot gases generated during re-entry to enter the wing and cause structural collapse. This caused Columbia to spin out of control, breaking up with the loss of the entire crew.
Museum exhibit
Enterprise was stored at the Smithsonian's hangar at Washington Dulles International Airport before it was restored and moved to the newly built Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles International Airport, where it has been the centerpiece of the space collection. On April 12, 2011, NASA announced that Space Shuttle Discovery, the most traveled orbiter in the fleet, will be added to the collection once the Shuttle fleet is retired. When that happens, Enterprise will be moved to the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York City, to a newly constructed hangar adjacent to the museum. In preparation for the anticipated relocation, engineers evaluated the vehicle in early 2010 and determined that it was safe to fly on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft once again.