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A Discus Launch Glider (DLG) is a radio controlled model sailplane launched using a 'discus launch' in which the glider is held by a wingtip and rotated around the flyer by hand before release. Using this method of launching the average flier can achieve launch heights of greater than 140 feet (43 m), with the better throwers exceeding 200-foot (61 m) high launches.
The discus method of hand launching has now in effect replaced the older 'javelin style' launch, where a hand launched model glider would be launched over-arm, like a javelin would be thrown. The discus launch is far easier, more efficient and less physically demanding than the javelin launch.
Although some DLG designs utilise a traditional built-up construction using balsa wood and covering film, most DLG models are generally now constructed from composite materials, in the form of Kevlar, carbon fibre and glass fibre. Fuselages are moulded in Kevlar/carbon and epoxy, with wings either moulded as a hollow composite shell, or vacuum bagged over a wire-cut foam core.
Most DLG models use aileron, rudder and elevator control, with the ailerons also being used as camber changing flaps for different modes of flight and also as airbrakes for landing. A modern DLG model weighs approximately 9 or 10 ounces (255-283 grams) and has sophisticated aerodynamics. Many pilots use computer radio transmitters with full mixing and flight mode capabilities in order to optimise performance and set up the models for flight as near perfectly as possible.
DLG models are used for both general fun/sport flying and also for contest flying.
Finally, a little bit of winter arrived in New Hampshire overnight. Jericho Road Trail to Cooley hill. Norman's first winter hike.
I've always wanted to shoot these massive vehicles. In the Sea Launch headquarters building (about 50 yards from where this photo was taken) there is a 1/4 scale WGS satellite model that I built hanging in the lobby.
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We launched our 10th Birthday celebrations with a carnival style party for staff on the Bellville Campus lawn
NYC Care is launched today in the Bronx on Thursday, August 1, 2019. NYC Care is a health care access program that guarantees low-cost and no-cost services to New Yorkers who do not qualify for or cannot afford health insurance. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
Mission control team in the main control room at ESA's ESOC mision control centre on 21 Nov 2020, just a few hours prior to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: ESA/J. Mai
Some of the people gathered to watch the Falcon 9 launch of TurkmenSat 1 on the LC-39 Observation Gantry. Also visible to the right are mobile bleachers setup to provide more places for the crowd to sit. On the stairwell on the halfway platform is a man with the only large Nikon camera and lens setup I saw that day.
Faculty and staff at the UW System’s third-largest institution got together to celebrate the launch of the new general education program.
The launch was already canceled because of false readings from the engine cutoff sensor system that measures liquid hydrogen in the external tank when a spider decided to walk over the camera.
1. Release of the 1st floor
2. Protective plates are thrown out
3. Disconnection of the rings connecting the 2nd and 3rd floors
4. Small rocket engines divide 3rd floor and satellite
(Chocolate Jacques educational chromo's of the sixties, "Race to the Stars")
Gmail launched "GMail Labs" with invited guests that included Tech Crunch, News Week, BBC, Wired, CNet, Fortune, Life Hacker, Business Week, Info Week, PC World, and Gizmodo
Morecambe Lifeboat launch their Hovercraft.In well over forty years this is the first time I have seen a launch.A case of being in the right place at the right time.
Before the Hovercraft there was just an RNLI inshore rescue boat.
Though for many years the local fishermen had their own ie;not (RNLI boat) lifeboat. which if I remember was a converted fishing boat.
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Democracy for Scotland: The Referendum Experience was launched at the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum on 27th April, 2012.
The exhibition was formally opened by MSP Linda Fabiani and the launch was attended by many of the interviewees who contributed their recollections of the 1979 and 1997 devolution campaigns to the Devolution Referendums Oral History Collection at the Scottish Political Archive
Democracy for Scotland focuses on the campaign for a Scottish Parliament in the second half of the twentieth century. In particular it chronicles the history behind the two devolution referendums of 1979 and 1997 and explores the nature of the Yes and No campaigns for both referendums, their results and the re-establishment of a Scottish Parliament.
The exhibition draws largely on the collections of the Scottish Political Archive (SPA). SPA is based at the University of Stirling and is dedicated to collecting oral and other material relating to the political history of Scotland in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The exhibition features referendum campaign materials including leaflets, pamphlets, posters and badges deriving from all the major political parties and umbrella groups. It also offers visitors the opportunity to hear the voices of politicians and campaigners discussing their experiences of the referendums of ’79 and ‘97, the intervening period and the establishment of a Scottish Parliament.
For further information about the work of the Scottish Political Archive please visit our website at www.scottishpoliticalarchive.org.uk
A snapshot from the audio launch function of Nagarjuna, Anushka & Nikitha starrer Don at Shilpa Kala Vedhika on 5th, December, 2007.
Cupcake Central Launch Party - Cupcake photos.
A night where friends and cupcake lovers came to help celebrate the launch of my Online Cupcake Business by eating cupcakes. Baked over 170 cupcakes and they all disappeared quick!
Photos by Sam Tea.
Launching at Tuparoa. Tuparoa Beach, Ruatoria, New Zealand, 1981. Yashica TL Electro X, Kodacolor. © All Rights Reserved. This image may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic, mechanical, photocopying, and recording without my written consent.
Water soluble graphite sketch
size: 7.5 x 11 inches
drawing time about 2 hours (very fast for me!)
The scan blasted out some of the lighter hues in this drawing, but you get the idea. I think I probably should've spent longer on this, but I just wanted to draw something and this is what I ended up doing.
Thank you to rik_surf for the reference photo.
This drawing will soon be available for sale on my website.
As seen at the Lipizzaner show at the Intel Core i7 Launch in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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