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On November 21, Stony Brook University launched the public phase of a seven-year, $600 million comprehensive campaign. The campaign, led by the Stony Brook Foundation, is the largest in the history of the State University of New York system.
This week Harvey Nash launched Engage, its latest inclusion network for senior business leaders that offers a forum for exchange amongst peers of all cultural and ethnic backgrounds. At a launch event hosted by the Financial Times Non-Executive Directors’ Club, over 100 business leaders joined to hear from Heather Rabbatts, former Chief Executive of Lambeth Council and the first woman to be appointed to the board of the Football Association.
Luncheon celebrating the launch of CMU's new Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation. September 22, 2012.
Virginia Sea Grant joined the Virginia Institute of Marine Science Advancement and Outreach team, Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve and the VIMS Marine Advisory Program for virtual beach seining, squid dissection, and laboratory tours with high school students from the Camp Launch program.
William & Mary's Camp Launch serves high-achieving underserved students in the Hampton Roads area as they participate in a two-week residential program with courses in STEM, writing, and personal development. July 23, 2021 (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Virginia Sea Grant)
A quad and quintuple launcher. The quads meant for Atlanta where quintuple is for Fletcher and other destroyers that used quintuple launchers.
After the pomp and ceremony, the launch and fanfare. HMS Duncan starts sliding into the water as they release the balloons and start the fireworks. And the guy in the crane on the left has the perfect view.
Balloon launch to commemorate Richard Crosbie’s flight in 1785 from Ranelagh Gardens. The weather was perfect for pilot Tom McCormack to take off. Special permission was required from the Aviation Authority and this flight is very unlikely ever to be repeated.
Photo (c) Daragh Owens
(•) – The Lockheed Martin HC-130J Hercules The Combat King II is the U.S. Air Force's only dedicated fixed-wing personnel recovery platform and is flown by the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) and Air Combat Command (ACC). This C-130J variation specializes in tactical profiles and avoiding detection and recovery operations in austere environments. The HC-130J replaces HC-130P/Ns as the only dedicated fixed-wing Personnel Recovery platform in the Air Force inventory. It is an extended-range version of the C-130J Hercules transport. Its mission is to rapidly deploy to execute combatant commander directed recovery operations to austere airfields and denied territory for expeditionary, all weather personnel recovery operations to include airdrop, airland, helicopter air-to-air refueling, and forward area ground refueling missions. When tasked, the aircraft also conducts humanitarian assistance operations, disaster response, security cooperation/aviation advisory, emergency aeromedical evacuation, and noncombatant evacuation operations.
Features
Modifications to the HC-130J have improved navigation, threat detection and countermeasures systems. The aircraft fleet has a fully-integrated inertial navigation and global positioning systems, and night vision goggle, or NVG, compatible interior and exterior lighting. It also has forward-looking infrared, radar and missile warning receivers, chaff and flare dispensers, satellite and data-burst communications, and the ability to receive fuel inflight via a Universal Aerial Refueling Receptacle Slipway Installation (UARRSI).
The HC-130J can fly in the day; however, crews normally fly night at low to medium altitude levels in contested or sensitive environments, both over land or overwater. Crews use NVGs for tactical flight profiles to avoid detection to accomplish covert infiltration/exfiltration and transload operations. To enhance the probability of mission success and survivability near populated areas, crews employ tactics that include incorporating no external lighting or communications, and avoiding radar and weapons detection.
Drop zone objectives are done via personnel drops and equipment drops. Rescue bundles include illumination flares, marker smokes and rescue kits. Helicopter air-to-air refueling can be conducted at night, with blacked out communication with up to two simultaneous helicopters. Additionally, forward area refueling point operations can be executed to support a variety of joint and coalition partners.
Background
The HC-130J is a result of the HC/MC-130 recapitalization program and replaces Air Combat Command's aging HC-130P/N fleet as the dedicated fixed-wing personnel recovery platform in the Air Force inventory. The 71st and 79th Rescue Squadrons in Air Combat Command, the 550th Special Operations Squadron in Air Education and Training Command, the 920th Rescue Group in Air Force Reserve Command and the 106th Rescue Wing, 129th RQW and 176th Wing in the Air National Guard will operate the aircraft.
First flight was 29 July 2010, and the aircraft will serve the many roles and missions of the HC-130P/Ns. It is a modified KC-130J aircraft designed to conduct personnel recovery missions, provide a command and control platform, in-flight-refuel helicopters and carry supplemental fuel for extending range or air refueling.
In April 2006, the personnel recovery mission was transferred back to Air Combat Command at Langley AFB, Va. From 2003 to 2006, the mission was under the Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field, Fla. Previously, HC-130s were assigned to ACC from 1992 to 2003. They were first assigned to the Air Rescue Service as part of Military Airlift Command.
General Characteristics
Primary function: Fixed-wing Personnel Recovery platform
Contractor: Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
Power Plant: Four Rolls Royce AE2100D3 turboprop engines
Thrust: 4,591 Propeller Shaft Horsepower, each engine
Wingspan: 132 feet, 7 inches (40.4 meters)
Length: 97 feet, 9 inches (29.57 meters)
Height: 38 feet, 9 inches (11.58 meters)
Operating Weight: 89,000 pounds (40,369 kilograms)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 164,000 pounds (74,389 kilograms)
Fuel Capacity: 61,360 pounds (9,024 gallons)
Payload: 35,000 pounds (15,875 kilograms)
Speed: 316 knots indicated air speed at sea level
Range: beyond 4,000 miles (3,478 nautical miles)
Ceiling: 33,000 feet (10,000 meters)
Armament: countermeasures/flares, chaff
Basic Crew: Three officers (pilot, co-pilot, combat system officer) and two enlisted loadmasters
Unit Cost: $66 million (fiscal 2010 replacement cost)
Initial operating capability: 2013.
Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC), Edinburgh, 2/5/13.
Opening celebration for the new expansion.
L to R: Kimi Raikkonen (FIN), David Coulthard (GBR), Alex Wurz (AUT) and Ron Dennis (GBR).
McLaren MP4/17 Launch.
19 January 2002.
Barcelona, Spain.
The launch of the Atlas V that carried the Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, to orbit and set it on its way to Mars.
Launch was at 10:02 AM on November 26, 2011. Curiosity is scheduled to arrive at Mars around August 5.
It will explore the area around Gale Crater for about 1 Martian year under its prime mission. If the rover continues to be in good health, the mission will be extended.
These photos were taken from the roof of the Launch Control Complex (LCC), right next to the VAB at Kennedy Space Center.
We went to La Mesita Park to go launch a rocket. Carleton made sure Kevin didn't set himself on fire.
Lenovo launched several new products at the Olio Restaurant, Crossroads, Cebu.
Products include: IdeaCentre A300 All-In-One Desktop, IdeaPad Z460, Idea U460, Lenovo V460, Lenovo B460, ThinkCentre A70z and ThinkPad Edge 14” laptop.
Lenovo Reps included: Jimmy Chin, Vincent Song, Karen Capellan and Francis Judan.
Date: May 24,2010