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Youngsters beam with pride, wearing their new life jackets obtained in trade for used flotation devices during Life Jacket Trade-in Day, May 24, at Englebright Lake, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District park near Smartsville, Calif. The life jacket exchange was sponsored by the California Department of Boating and Waterways. (U.S. Army photo by Tom Bookholtz/Released)
An unidentified Apollo Command Module boilerplate during flotation stability tests conducted circa 1961/62(?). Photo (possibly a frame from motion picture documentation) appears to be shortly after water impact.
To replace various helicopters in service at the time, namely the SH-34 Seahorse, the US Navy awarded Sikorsky a contract to develop a helicopter that would combine several roles into one airframe: hunter/killer antisubmarine warfare, cargo transport, and search and rescue. It would also have to be capable of amphibious operations and had to be able to operate from smaller ships as well as aircraft carriers. Sikorsky’s HSS-2 Sea King was the response, and it first flew in March 1959. The HSS-2 had a distinctive “boat” hull for water landings, including flotation bags in the sponsons, good visibility from the cockpit, and a folding tail section for stowage. In the antisubmarine role, the HSS-2 was equipped with a dipping sonar unreeled from the forward hull, 21 sonobuoys, and a MAD “bird” capable of being deployed from the port sponson. In 1962, the type’s designation was changed to SH-3A.
The SH-3 would remain in US Navy service for the next 50 years. During Vietnam and the Third World War, it operated in plane guard duties for carriers, the first aircraft to launch and the last to recover; it also served in SAR duties from the carriers and smaller ships, flying over water and often over land to rescue downed pilots. In this role, the SH-3 is probably responsible for the rescue of more people than any other aircraft type. Dedicated SAR helicopters often were equipped with heavy or light machine guns. Other versions were converted to UH-3 utility helicopters and VH-3 VIP transports. The latter are the last Sea Kings in US service; the US Navy began replacing the aging SH-3 following the First Gulf War, with ASW/SAR SH-3s mostly gone from fleet service by 1997. Cargo and utility variants remained in service until 2006. Besides its service in the US armed forces, Sea Kings were heavily exported to 17 air forces, including license-built versions made by Westland (Sea Kings), United Aircraft of Canada (CH-124), Agusta (AS-61), and Mitsubishi (HSS-2); foreign variants are used both in traditional roles for the Sea King, as well as antishipping duties, troop transports, minesweeping, and even AEW. It remains in service worldwide.
Bureau Number 156506 started life as a SH-3D before it was converted into a UH-3H utility version of the Sea King. It served with several Marine units; which ones are unknown, but HMX-1, the squadron dedicated to transporting the President and other government officials, was almost certainly one of them. 156506 was retired in 2006 (making it one of the last Sea Kings in US military service), but its career was not quite over--after a brief stay at AMARG, it was taken up by the State Department, operating out of Patrick AFB, Florida. It was retired in 2017 and donated to the Pima Air and Space Museum a year later.
This was another of the aircraft that my dying camera ruined last year at Pima. Luckily the museum had it parked close enough to their firefighting aircraft that I got a good shot in 2022.
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Solaris of the Celestial Array joins with Polaris, Lunas, Meteorite and Heliocore to form the Stellar Sphere Group as an important statement for the art of lost wax bronze. In Solaris, through an astonishing composition, the sculptor has formed a portrait of the Earth’s Sun. Indeed, Solaris evokes the energy nucleus at the heart of the Sun in a composition emitting dramatic light rays within an energy corona. Here we are presented with a Solaris that is at once dynamic, commanding and yet mythically enigmatic. Coming upon Solaris in the gallery or in the privacy of a personal collection, we are able to explore bronze that radiates gestural and spiritual energies on both actual and conceptual levels, inviting the viewer into a deeper level of contemplation of the Sun’s presence, meaning and power. With great subtlety, Snowden suggests a solar portrait that provokes intense consideration on every level of the sculpture, from the gestural hands to the coronal mass ejection that sweeps the composition in a lyrical band bringing us to Solaris’s arcoistic facial mask that conveys an intensely moving yet almost indefinable revelation.
Solaris, as a sculptural meditation, expresses M.L. Snowden’s central idea that the very substance of humankind, stars, planetary masses and bronze are created of the same interrelated yet differently arranged elements. And yet Solaris reaches into a deep wellspring that suggests an expanded definition of the Sun suggested at other times and within other cultures. Clearly, the sculpture begins to unfold in depth as the viewer brings to Solaris his or her own personal knowledge, perception, acumen and fantasy. Standing before Solaris we are presented with an invitation to explore a sculpture that has no twin in the history of bronze; a sculpture that beckons a new frame of reference for the Sun. Within the sculptor’s vision, the Sun as an active entity is not dislocated from our own powers and our mutual existences, promoting a feeling of reciprocity. The healing nature of the Sun; its powers to promote life on Earth and the positive qualities of solar energy are uppermost in this sculptural evocation.
Using no models or references to express form, Snowden sculpts Solaris’s central figurative nucleus in a state of flotation. The figure is set at a slightly elevated angle that rises in a dynamic charge slightly offset from the center of sculptural balance. Such subtleties of as they are uncovered point to mysteries within the sculptural vision; that the offset balances seen in Polaris and Solaris release a greater sense of dynamism in their compositions suggesting that evolving suns configure energy transmissions in off-centered patterns. In this sculpture, we can appreciate fractal patterns of jettisoning power in an intense musculature which is not only figural but gestural in spiked whorls and stripes of bronze that encompass the charged fingerprints of the sculptor as they draw and shape radiance.
Solaris has been sculpted by Snowden into new levels of metallurgical virtuosity. The abstract rays exhibit dramatic energy patterning and seem as if they are shaped by bursting energies alone. Solaris’s impressive bronze weight is offset by almost immaterial bands of bronze that support the sculpture. M.L. Snowden invented the protocols and specific foundry wax that makes the casting of Solaris possible. From important roots in the Paris studios of Rodin and Antonin Mercié, Snowden brings to Solaris the glowing luminous platinum Fournier Patina and the touch of the historic Rodin tools that were used to shape the dynamic, immortal planes of Solaris.
ABOUT THE ARTIST...
M.L. Snowden is a third generation protégé of the great French sculptor, Auguste Rodin and the inheritor of Rodin’s sculptural techniques and original sculpting tools, which she uses in her own work. Her sculpture has been shown in museums around the world and is in the permanent collection of The White House. Snowden has received numerous awards including being named the world winner of the 1992 International Rodin Competition in Tokyo, Japan. In 1989, at the age of 36, Snowden was awarded the National Sculpture Society’s inaugural Alex Ettl Grant for “Lifetime Achievement in American Sculpture.” Snowden’s commissions include the Main Altar of the $200 million Los Angeles Cathedral.
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includes Gabrielle Bell, Jeffrey Brown, Allison Cole, Benjamin Chandler, Dylan Horrocks, Kevin Huizenga, Onsmith, Cole Johnson, Missy Kulik, Ted May, Anders Nilsen, Ryoko Oguchi, John Porcellino & Robert Ullman
silkscreen & xerox, 2005.
Flotation Cells on display at the The Jack Koza Memorial Park in the Town of Cobalt Coleman Township in the District of Timiskaming Northeastern Ontario Canada
Flotation, in mineral processing, method used to separate and concentrate ores by altering their surfaces to a hydrophobic or hydrophilic condition—that is, the surfaces are either repelled or attracted by water. ... Flotation has now become the most widely used process for extracting many minerals from their ores.
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.
Sun 27 June 2010 - Margate Raft Race from Nayland Rock to Harbour. - The Bay, Margate Main Sands. - Class B and Overall Winners Barnacles finishing strongly.
This is a shot of the Cabin area with the Longitudinal Stringers with the glue strips being installed. The glue strips are added to provide a foundation for the cabin sole to be epoxied down. The pink Styrofoam insulation serves as flotation should there be a problem.. ( More water inside than out.)
A Motorboat and Airboat Safety Training was recently held at the Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota. Students received classroom training as well as field training in the use of personal flotation devices (PFDs), various motorized boats, trailers, and airboats. Students had to pass both a written exam and a practical exam where both safety and skills were demonstrated while running set up courses.
Photo Credit: Krista Lundgren/USFWS
The Block 10 mine, one of the original BHP leases, was floated as the BHP Block 10 Co. Ltd in 1888. A concentration mill was erected at the mine in the 1890s to treat sulphide ore. Underground subsidence seriously affected the mill and, as a result, a new mill was erected on this hill in 1903, about 600 metres from the mine.
An aerial ropeway, the first at Broken Hill, was completed in 1904. This transported broken ore from the mine to a large storage bin above the mill. The mill cost £50 000 and could treat 3500 tons of ore per week.
The mine produced 2.5 million tons of ore and paid £1.5 million in dividends up to 1923 when it and the mill closed and were purchased by BHP. The mine was reworked by Broken Hill South Ltd between 1946 and 1960. Much of the mine site is now covered by overburden dumps from modern open-cut operations.
The concrete foundations on site are the remnants of the Block 10 concentration mill erected in 1903. The mill, designed by Captain John Warren and containing many of his inventions, was the first all electric mill in Broken Hill.
The aerial ropeway delivered broken ore from the mine to a storage bin above the mill. Broken ore was fed to crushing rolls and then passed to cylindrical trommels and hydraulic classifiers for sizing. Subsequent treatment consisted of wet concentration by jigs, Wilfley tables and vanners. These relied on specific gravity to separate the heavier lead and silver minerals from the zinc minerals. The resultant concentrate contained about two-thirds of the lead and one-half of the silver in the original ore, but very little zinc.
Flotation units were added to the mill in 1910 to produce a zinc concentrate from the tailings. Combined gravity-flotation concentration mills were standard at Broken Hill until after 1930 when the first all-flotation plants were installed.
Source: City Of Broken Hill.
I forgot the real camera so had to use the iPhone. There's a new flotation place opened up almost next door. I love floating. According to the spa owner i'm a 'experienced floater', snigger.
Floating is divine.
Sun 27 June 2010 - Margate Raft Race from Nayland Rock to Harbour. - The Bay, Margate Main Sands. - Class B and Overall Winners Barnacles finishing strongly.
Designers: Jesse Zachery & Jeffery Grothe
Title: Torque: The Superhero From Trash
Materials: Old bike tires, found helmet, foam bedding, old snowboard goggles and snow boots. Aluminum shavings, netting, and scrap. Blue inflatable intertube and used kitchen gloves. Red netting, old hip flotation foam, subwoofer, shoe strings, old kids football shoulder pads. Ductape, LED touchlight, paper.
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.
Sun 27 June 2010 - Margate Raft Race from Nayland Rock to Harbour. - The Bay, Margate Main Sands. - Class B and Overall Winners Barnacles finishing strongly.
S66-50767 (15 Sept. 1966) --- Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., command pilot of the Gemini-11 spaceflight, climbs from the spacecraft minutes after splashdown. Astronaut Richard F. Gordon Jr., pilot, still has his hatch closed. A U.S. Navy frogman team attached a flotation collar to the spacecraft. A recovery helicopter from the USS Guam (LPH-9) picked up the two astronauts. Photo credit: NASA (2016/03/20).
Sun 27 June 2010 - Margate Raft Race from Nayland Rock to Harbour. - The Bay, Margate Main Sands. - 'Pirates of Thanet' - Westcoast Bar, 3rd Class B and 5th finishers, did not take the most direct route accross The Bay and ended up on the far side of the harbour and now make their way across to the finish..
A replica of the Apollo 11 command module with the real Apollo 11 Flotation Collar attached.
On July 24 1969, at the end of its historic Moon landing mission, the Apollo 11 command module splashed down in the Pacific. Navy swimmers from a recovery helicopter jumped into the water, near the command module, to stabilize it. They attached and inflated around it this custom made flotation collar.
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.
S66-50767 (09/15/66) - Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., command pilot of the Gemini 11 space mission, climbs from the spacecraft minutes after splashdown. Astronaut Richard F. Gordon, Jr., pilot, still has his hatch closed. The U.S. Navy frogman team attached a flotation collar to the spacecraft.
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON -- Soldiers from the 4th Quartermaster Detachment conduct combat water survival training at Buckner Physical Fitness Center, JBER-Richardson, Sept. 1. Training included treading water for 5 minutes, completion of two separate 25 meter swims, one with rucksack and then M-4 Carbine, making of flotation devices from the Army Combat Uniforms, and finally a 3-meter platform dive and 25-meter swim with their weapons. (U.S. Air Force/Percy G. Jones)
Northwest Airlines passenger safety instruction pamphlet for the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 Super 80; Brochure shows emergency evacuation routes and instructions, how to use oxygen mask and flotation devices; Copyright: Interaction Research Corporation; Date: 1986----Image from the SDASM Curatorial Collection. This item is currently on display in the Museum Rotunda. Note: This material may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.)--Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Surrey Fire & Rescue service have a day out in Shoreham, Sussex, to practice water rescue / techniques in the fast flowing River Adur as the tide changes.
I'm not sure if its fun or not looking at his face?
43 Etha foam logs from Wing Inflatables, destined for sand tires and flotation on the Whymcycle Express and other Kinetic Sculptures...
PictionID:44989038 - Title:USN Hanriot HD-2 testing flotation bags - Catalog:16_006195 - Filename:16_006195.tif - - - - Image from the Ray Wagner Collection. Ray Wagner was Archivist at the San Diego Air and Space Museum for several years and is an author of several books on aviation --- ---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Beech Fork Lake hosted its annual cleanup event last month and approximately 40 volunteers collected enough garbage to fill 258 enormous trash bags and 54 old tires from the lake and surrounding recreation area.
Natural Resources and Recreation Management students from Marshall University,
Wayne High School Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps members and Beech Fork Lake's long-term volunteer hosts were the biggest supporters of the cleanup effort, along with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers park rangers and maintenance staff.
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection’s Make It Shine program supplied trash bags, gloves, trash grabbers and garbage hauling services. Great Outdoors and the Beech Fork Lake Marina donated a pontoon boat and personal flotation devices.
Volunteers enjoyed a barbecue after the cleanup.
“We are always grateful for our dedicated volunteers whose cleanup efforts assist in improving the quality of Beech Fork for visitors, wildlife and vegetation through environmental enhancement,” said Zack Abbott, a park ranger at Beech Fork Lake.
Beech Fork Lake is a 720-acre reservoir located near Lavalette in Wayne County, West Virginia. Developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the mid 1970's, Beech Fork Lake is popular among recreational boaters, anglers, hikers and campers. For more information about Beech Fork Lake, call 304.525.4831 or visit corpslakes.usace.army.mil/visitors/projects.cfm?Id=H101280
Premier John Horgan toured the Highland Valley Copper Mine — located approximately 17 kilometres west of Logan Lake and about 50 kilometres southwest of Kamloops. HVC produces both copper and molybdenum concentrates through autogenous and semi-autogenous grinding and flotation.
Sun 27 June 2010 - Margate Raft Race from Nayland Rock to Harbour. - The Bay, Margate Main Sands. - Second finishers and Class A Winners Northern Belle relieved to reach the finish.
A Motorboat and Airboat Safety Training was recently held at the Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota. Students received classroom training as well as field training in the use of personal flotation devices (PFDs), various motorized boats, trailers, and airboats. Students had to pass both a written exam and a practical exam where both safety and skills were demonstrated while running set up courses.
Photo Credit: Krista Lundgren/USFWS
Pararescuemen and Combat Rescue Officers with the New York Air National Guard's 103rd Rescue Squadron, 106th Rescue Wing, supported by the Hawaii Air National Guard's 154th Wing, 204th Airlift Squadron, conduct personnel recovery training in order to test the new "Front Porch" flotation device for NASA's Orion Crew Module.
This training was conducted alongside NASA personnel at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii during Exercise SENTRY ALOHA March 6, 2017. A major element of this two week TDY is to participate in a joint NASA and Defense Department mission to evaluate recovery techniques and gear that will be used to recover NASA's Orion spacecraft, the next generation of American space vehicle.
US Air National Guard Photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher S. Muncy
Such a tedious process to cook this stuff!
This fish maw was quite thick, about 7mm when dehydrated.
1. Soak overnight to rehydrate. The texture at this stage is rubbery, but not sticky.
2. 出水 Blanch in boiling water with slices of ginger. I didn't have ginger, so I substituted orange peel and spring onion, both of which are commonly used in Chinese cooking to get rid of fishy smells. After blanching, the collagen is starting to be release, with the fish maw slightly sticky to the touch.
3. Boil in chicken or pork soup until tender. In this case, 2 hours in a vacuum pot wasn't enough, so I simmered it for another hour and a half.
Apart from boiling chicken in the soup, I also added ginger, and 红枣 Chinese red dates. After 2 hours in the vacuum pot, the soup had been tainted with a slight fishiness and a musty gamey flavour. To counter this, I used a tablespoon of white peppercorns, cracked, and some 陈皮 dried mandarin peel, all in a muslin bag, and added it to the soup for the final hour and a half. The resulting soup was nice and peppery, a typical style of soup used to cook pig stomach.
The final texture of the fish maw was softer than marshmallow, barely keeping it's form. It shouldn't be chewy with the bite of soft pasta.
Republic Airlines passenger safety instruction pamphlet for the Boeing 727-200; Brochure shows emergency evacuation routes and instructions, how to use oxygen mask and flotation devices; Copyright: Interaction Research Corporation; Date: 1984----Image from the SDASM Curatorial Collection. This item is currently on display in the Museum Rotunda. Note: This material may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.)--Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
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.
ZJ241 / L (cn 36164) One of the DHFS Griffin HT.1s is seen here in the Search & Rescue Training Unit (SARTU) hangar at RAF Valley. SARTU is a detachment of the Defence Helicopter Flying School (DHFS), which is based at RAF Shawbury. All DHFS and SARTU aircraft are provided by contractor FB Heliservices under contract CP12/2015. SARTU Griffins differ from the rest of the fleet in that they have flotation gear and winch equipment.