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File name: 07_11_001279
Title: Launching the Lifeboat
Creator/Contributor: Moran, Edward, 1829-1901 (artist); L. Prang & Co. (publisher)
Date issued: 1861-1897 (approximate)
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Genre: Chromolithographs; Marine prints
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions
Sentinel-5P ready on the launch pad waiting for liftoff in less than three hours.
Credits: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2017
PictionID:41551768 - Title:Launcher--'Launcher binder - Catalog:14_001473 - Filename:14_001473.tif - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
July 14, 2007 was launch day for our Mill Creek project. We had planned to take her out on Lake St. Clair to watch the Dragon Boat races but there were small craft warnings and a stiff wind. We settled on taking her down the street to the reservoir for some sea trials.
Here is a Royal Australian Air Force Boeing/McDonnel Douglas F/A-18F Super Hornet (A44-202) launching skywards into the sky with the clouds surrounding it.
Christmas Eve my wife and I took our kids to one of the local sledding hills. With all the snow we had the previous Sat. some people had built a big ramp. This is one of my sons going off the ramp on his sled. He really caught some air:)
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Flickr official launch party in Taiwan on 2013/8/19. Flickr 於2013年8月19日正式在台灣上線，上線記者會邀請 Joann 與觀光局國際組鄭副組長共同參與。
A new pilot scheme, launched this week, will significantly boost the ability to tackle and prevent crime and antisocial behaviour on Greater Manchester’s bus and tram network.
Under the Travelsafe Partnership, a dedicated team of 16 police constables, police community support officers, special constables and security personnel will provide regular patrols on the region’s networks for the next three years.
Led by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and Greater Manchester Police (GMP), the scheme will use crime and antisocial behaviour data from contributing operators – Metrolink, First Bus and Stagecoach – to target patrols in hotspot areas at key times and support front line staff.
The establishment of a dedicated team will provide expertise and knowledge that will also assist in the identification of repeat offenders, while the provision of body-worn cameras in conjunction with existing public transport CCTV will help gather evidence for prosecutions.
Where appropriate, the partnership will seek to use legal powers to ban offenders from public transport and deliver restorative justice schemes following prosecution.
The pilot will also focus on preventative measures and youth education, with uniformed officers visiting schools to educate youngsters on the dangers, impacts and consequences of crime, antisocial behaviour and fare evasion on public transport.
The pilot will initially run for three years but will be subject to formal annual reviews and regular scrutiny by a strategy group made up of members from organisations involved.
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
My view of the first attempt to launch the CRS-10 mission to resupply the International Space Station. My cameras (pictured and taking picture) are both pointed roughly at Launch Complex 39A with the Falcon 9 rocket. LC-39A is small, but visible, in the image.
JSC2011-E-067610 (8 July 2011) --- The space shuttle Atlantis launches for the STS-135 mission to the International Space Station in the final mission of the Space Shuttle Program at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff was at 11:29 a.m. (EDT) on July 8, 2011. Onboard are NASA astronauts Chris Ferguson, STS-135 commander; Doug Hurley, pilot; Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim, both mission specialists. Photo credit: NASA Photo/Houston Chronicle, Smiley N. Pool
The Rhino Seeker Missile Launcher is the slowest seeker missile launching weapon with a launch speed of 600 mph. It uses an electronic sight and utilizes a loading port that slides out.
Note: Seeker missile launchers don't need the blast duct in the back to release the exhaust (a way to save our environment)
First launch of Universal Hull prototype boat from trailer! The prototype is 18 ft LOA, 7 ft beam, 8 ins draft and weighs 600 lbs in light mode. Notice the slender forward sections of the boat, and the fine angle of entry underwater. It has a prototype cruising rig with mast set well back and single furled sail. The mast splits into three sections and can be stowed under the side-decks.
ExoMars launch event at ESOC 14 March 2016, including images from the Main Control Room around launch and receipt of first signals. Credit: ESA/J. Mai
Vega flight VV09 with the Sentinel-2B satellite on board stands ready on the launch pad at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Credits: ESA-S.Corvaja
From the Rootstein Mannequin Launch last night.... the mannequins were wearing vintage Dior Couture....
The steam catapult launch bridle is just falling away under the main wheels of this Gannet (AEW?) that is launching from aboard (I think) HMS Victorious (there's a V on the aircraft's tail, which I assume indicates the ship the aircraft belonged to?).
The Fairey Gannet was built in response to the 1945 Admiralty requirement GR.17/45. Fairey selected an engine based on the Armstrong Siddeley Mamba: the Double Mamba (or "Twin Mamba"), basically two Mambas mounted side-by-side and coupled through a common gearbox to coaxial contra-rotating propellers. Power was transmitted from each engine by a torsion shaft which was engaged through a series of sun, planet, epicyclic and spur gears to give a suitable reduction ratio and correct propeller shaft rotation. The Double Mamba engine could be run with one stopped to conserve fuel and extend endurance for cruise flight. The contra-rotating propellers meant that when only half of the Double Mamba was running there were no thrust asymmetry problems. The Mamba exhausts were situated on each side of the fuselage, at the root of the wing trailing edge. The gas-turbine engine could run on kerosene, "wide-cut" turbine fuel or diesel fuel, allowing the Admiralty to eliminate the dangerous high-octane petroleum spirit required to operate piston-engined aircraft from carriers.
The pilot is seated well forward, conferring a good view over the nose for carrier operations, and sits over the Double Mamba engine, directly behind the gearbox and propellers. The second crewmember, an observer, is seated under a separate canopy directly behind the pilot. After the prototype, a second observer was included, in his own cockpit over the wing trailing edge. This addition disturbed the airflow over the horizontal stabiliser, requiring small finlets on either side.
The Gannet has a large internal weapons bay in the fuselage and a retractable radome under the rear fuselage. The Gannet's wing folds in two places to form a distinctive Z-shape on each side. The length of the nose wheel shock absorber causes the Gannet to have a distinctive nose-high attitude, a common characteristic of carrier aircraft.
The prototype first flew on 19 September 1949 and made the first deck landing by a turboprop aircraft, on HMS Illustrious on 19 June 1950, piloted by Lt Cdr G Callingham. The type entered production in 1953 and the RN's first operational squadron (826 NAS) was embarked on HMS Eagle. A total of 348 Gannets were built, of which 44 were the heavily modified AEW.3. Production was shared between Fairey's factories at Hayes, Middlesex and RIngway Airport, Manchester.
An AEW variant (AEW Mk 3), carrying the American AN/APS-20F radar in a large, bulbous radome suspended beneath the fuselage, under the wing leading edge, requiring a major structural redesign. This variant first flew in August 1958, with trials carried out with HMS Centaur in November. When the AEW.3s were withdrawn and scrapped, their radar equipment was recycled into the RAF Avro Shackleton AEW.2. Gannets also operated as ECM aircraft (ECM.6) and as carrier onboard delivery (COD.4).
The Royal Australian Navy purchased 36 Gannets and operated them from the carrier HMAS Melbourne and the shore base HMAS Albatross near Nowra, NSW. Indonesia and Germany also bought some in the late 1950s.
The photo is probably from the early or mid-1960s as it came to me from a family friend who was serving aboard HMS Victorious during that period. There are no markings on photo or its rear...
The sun crests the mountain tops back lighting the launch complex for NASA's Pad Abort-1 flight test of the Orion Launch Abort System on the White Sands Missile Range near Las Cruces, NM on May 6, 2010.
Had a great set of launches today in Livermore. Recovered all the mid-power rockets, which is a special treat. On this LOC Precision Starburst rocket, you can see the two Aerotech F-size motors burning side-by-side in the full size image.
The wide-bottom rocket waiting on the pad flies without fins.
Casualties of the day:
* Only recovered the digital altimeter from "Flower Power" which roared to 3,232 feet. Hopefully someone in Livermore will find the parachute and main tube that drifted out of sight.
* Lost the bottom half of the photo rocket (but I recovered the nose-cone camera and am collecting photos from apogee on 110 roll film).
Launching a fishing boat off Coco Beach, Ghana. Each launch takes nearly an hour as the team have to manually edge the boat forward on incoming suitable waves. Finally the boat has enough momentum, but 100 yards out they meet a few large waves. Amazingly they all remained standing.
As I can't edit or upload large images, will have to clean the dust spot later :(
In the early 1960s American advisers in Vietnam requested an automatic grenade launcher which could act as a force multiplier. The US Army responded in September 1963, by calling on private industry to submit designs for a low velocity 40mm automatic grenade launcher. The new launcher had to weight below 12lbs and feed from a belt. Four competing companies submitted designs with the entry from the Aerojet Ordnance Manufacturing Company tentatively selected in February 1964.
Throughout 1965 Aerojet worked up their design and with feedback from the Army altered it to fire from a closed rather than open bolt and a sem-automatic fire capability. The weapon was initially designed to fire from a tripod but the Ordnance Corps also requested a design with a buttstock which could fire from a bipod. The weapons sights were taken from the shoulder-fired, single shot M79. It appears that the general shape of the XM174′s receiver and pistol grip were styled after the M1919 medium machine gun, possibly for the sake of user familiarity.
Designated the ‘Launcher Grenade 40MM Low Velocity Automatic, XM174′, Aerojet continued development throughout 1966 with the assistance and oversight of Springfield Armory and Rock Island Arsenal. It was initially envisaged that the new grenade launcher would be vehicle and tripod mounted but weighing under 12lbs, less than half the M60 light machine gun, the Army quickly saw hip-fire potential in the XM174.
Despite being lighter than an M60, the XM174 proved to be less ergonomic and more difficult to carry in the field. Aerojet developed a 12-round drum to carry the weapon’s belt to ease carrying and loading on the move. When field tested in Vietnam the drum magazine was found to be fragile and suffered a high attrition rate. Units from all three services tested the XM174 in Vietnam. Including Air Force base security units, the 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Division and the USMC. In the photograph above we can see Major Joseph Flynn, 26th Marine Regiment, explaining the specific features of the XM174 to a group of generals in October 1969.
While the XM174 suffered teething problems in the field including issues with the drum system, poor ergonomics and complaints about its effective range. In the meantime Naval Ordnance Station Louisville had developed the Mk19 in 1968. The Mk19 was quickly adopted for vehicle and tripod mounted use by the Marine Corps and Army and the Ordnance Corps abandoned the XM174, some continued to be used in Vietnam into the early 1970s. Troops at squad level continued to use the M79, XM148 and the M203.
vandenberg launch viewed from los angeles, california
september 19, 2002
okay... so they got a better photo. but i got the minuteman in action!
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard is launched from Launch Complex 39A, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will travel to a metal-rich asteroid by the same name orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter to study it’s composition. The spacecraft also carries the agency's Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration, which will test laser communications beyond the Moon. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
That’s about 2½ seconds, fact fans. (The SSD is Crucial’s 256GB C300.)
Other specs: MacBook Pro, 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo, 8GB RAM.