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Taken at the second mLearn 2008 Conference Dinner which was at the RAF Museum at RAF Cosford.
The Vulcan was the world's first large bomber to employ a delta-wing form, which offers a unique combination of good load carrying capabilities, high subsonic speed at high altitudes and long range. After proving the design with the Avro 707 in 1949, the prototype Vulcan B1, fitted with Olympus engines, first flew on 30 August 1952. It is an enormous aircraft at 31m (102ft) in length and a wingspan of 30m (99ft).
The first production aircraft flew on 5 February 1955 and the second caused a sensation at the Farnborough Air Show by rolling during its demonstration. Vulcans first entered service in 1956 with No.230 Operational Conversion Unit at Waddington. The B2 version entered service on 1 July 1960 and was even bigger, with a 34m (111ft) wingspan and 32m (105ft) in length.
Following the transfer of the nuclear deterrent to the Royal Navy, the B2 was used for low-level tactical duties.
The Museum's aircraft XM598 was selected as reserve aircraft for the bombing raids on Port Stanley airfield during the Falklands campaign and on six occasions was airborne heading for the Falklands. It was never needed since the primary aircraft was able to carry out the raid alone. It was chosen because it had originally been built to carry the Skybolt stand-off bomb and it proved very easy to adapt to carry anti-radar missiles and an Electronic Counter Measures pod. The mountings for these are still fitted under the wings.
Taken at the second mLearn 2008 Conference Dinner which was at the RAF Museum at RAF Cosford.
The Argosy was a variant of the civil AW650 freight aircraft. The RAF ordered fifty-six Argosies for use as medium range transport, paratroop and supply aircraft. The prototype flew on 4 March 1961, and the RAF took delivery of its first aircraft in 1962.
The military Argosy could accommodate either 69 troops, 48 stretcher cases or 13154kg (29000lbs) of freight. The freight load could include a Saracen Armoured Car, 105mm Howitzer, Wombat anti-tank gun and Ferret Scout car.
XP411 was delivered to No.105 Squadron, then based in Aden, on 1 June 1962. The unit moved to Bahrein in November 1967 before being disbanded on 1 February 1968. XP411 was then taken on the strength of No.114 and No.267 Squadrons who operated a detachment in the Persian Gulf. Our aircraft is painted in the livery of Training Command and was last used for crew familiarisation and conversion duties. It was retired on 22 May 1975 and used for ground training at RAF Cosford until transferred to the Museum in 1987.
Taken at the second mLearn 2008 Conference Dinner which was at the RAF Museum at RAF Cosford.
Following the successful demonstration of supersonic flight by the two P1 research aircraft WG760 and WG763, English Electric was contracted to develop the P1B fighter aircraft. It was known as the Lightning and was capable of supersonic interceptions of enemy aircraft; it remained in front line service for nearly three decades.
The first P1B Lightning flew on 4 April 1957, the day the Government published a White Paper forecasting the end of manned aircraft and their replacement with missiles. As a result, several British military aircraft projects were cancelled, but the Lightning survived.
It was designed so that its armaments, radar and radio aids were integrated into the aircraft's flight and engine systems. The equipment; long range radar to find enemy aircraft by day and night and in all weathers, radio and navigational aids for operations under the worst conditions, and a dual armament of guided missiles and 30mm Aden cannon, were all as important as the aircraft's manoeuvrability and supersonic speed.
Three P1B prototypes were ordered, they were followed almost immediately with an order for 20 fully equipped pre-production aircraft of which XG337 was the last. Each was used to develop particular facets of supersonic fighter interception. Hence the clearance of the production version for use by the RAF was quickly achieved and aircraft were able to go into immediate front line service as defence against Soviet bombers and fighters threatening the NATO alliance.
USAID mEducation Alliance presentation of:
mLearning: A Platform for Educational Opportunities at the Base of the Pyramid with Matthew Kam, PhD Director, MILLEE Project Carnegie Mellon University
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...fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
- Honoré de Balzac -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/solitude
[thank you @peeii for the photo]
...to shaping construction of Personal Learning Ecosystem
- This is my first post of a next theme I want to go deep into: adding elements from shaping art methods to PLE (re)construction. If you read Danish... this is a fundamental source: Skabende kunstterapi by Hanne Stubbe Teglbjærg.
Some cornerstones:
- Creation of art opens for a parallel creation of "self" and "world"
- Art as a language that constitutes consciousness
- Facilitate the artistic process and stimulate aesthetic sensitivity and creation of meaning
The above picture visualizes how I've personally experienced the glide...
Pair of subjects. People or inanimate objects are both fair game! www.todaysposting.com/TPAssignment.php?TP=726
sites.google.com/site/tridattechnology/m-learning-india >> Challenges of Organization Training That Can Be Overcome With Mobile Learning Courses >> As such trainers as well as employees today face a variety of challenges, while conduction corporate training sessions. Thankfully, the advent of mlearning India has helped both trainers and trainees to overcome these challenges in an effective manner.
Prezi that goes with the presentations: prezi.com/axvbbw1in-n6/bringing-the-learning-to-you-virtu...
Ya están los vídeos en mi vlog en formato abierto para poder ser vistos por todos los grandes profesores 2.0 que han participado en el Congreso Internacional Edutec 2010 en Bilbao. Gracias a todos y adelante con los proyectos innovadores que hemos visto en las comunicaciones. Gracias a todos.
Vídeos: www.palazio.org/2010/11/video-del-congreso-internacional-...
Mi presentación: www.palazio.org/2010/11/edutec-2010-kongresoko-hitzaldia....
“Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.”
- Eugene S. Wilson -
MILLEE: Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies. www.cs.cmu.edu/~mattkam/lab/millee.html
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Taken at the second mLearn 2008 Conference Dinner which was at the RAF Museum at RAF Cosford.
FV107 Scimitar is an armoured reconnaissance vehicle (sometimes classed as a light tank) used by the British Army and manufactured by Alvis in Coventry. It is very similar to the FV101 Scorpion, but mounts a high velocity 30 mm L21 RARDEN cannon instead of a 76 mm gun.
This Scimitar was used by the RAF Regiment.
...@ a pottery workshop today - with eyes closed
"The ability to recognize and adjust to pattern shifts is a key learning task."
"Learning is a process that occurs within nebulous environments of shifting core elements – not entirely under the control of the individual."
"Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality."
"Connectivism presents a model of learning that acknowledges the tectonic shifts in society where learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity."
- Siemens, 2004 www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm -
...not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.”
- Mahatma Gandhi -
I conducted the first Mobile Language Learning in Satya Wacana Christian University for ESL teacher trainees in September 2006
“My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for I lived like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said that "for yesterday, today, and tomorrow they have only one word, and they express the variety of meaning by pointing backward for yesterday forward for tomorrow, and overhead for the passing day." This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting.”
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden -
“For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.”
- Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/embodiment
- two previous versions completed in Dec. 2013 embedded in the comment fields below
Taken at the second mLearn 2008 Conference Dinner which was at the RAF Museum at RAF Cosford.
Produced as a turbine-powered development of the American Sikorsky S-58, the initial British production version was the Wessex HAS Mk 1 for the Royal Navy, entering service in 1961. First flown in January 1962, the RAF variant, the HC Mk 2, was a high-performance development of the Mk 1, with two coupled Bristol Siddeley Gnome turboshaft engines. It was intended for transport, ambulance and general purpose duties, including carrying 16 fully-equipped troops or a 4000lb underslung load (such as a 105mm Pak Howitzer) and ground assault with Nord SS-11 anti-tank missiles and machine guns. It entered service, with No 18 Squadron at RAF Odiham, in January 1964, with 71 delivered. The HC Mk 2 became a familiar sight on anti-terrorist operations in Northern Ireland, and supported UN Peacekeeping forces in Cyprus.
German V1 Doodlebug. Taken at the second mLearn 2008 Conference Dinner which was at the RAF Museum at RAF Cosford.
The V1 (Vergeltungswaffen or Vengeance Weapon 1) was devised as a flying bomb as early as 1935, but because of design problems, progress was slow and little priority was given to the project.
The first production order was not made until June 1942. However, it was not until 13 June 1944 that the first ten were launched against London and by 29 June, approximately 2,000 had been launched from 40 operational sites. Only one in four V1s launched actually reached London and on 2 March the last of the successful launches hit our Capital.
The bombs themselves were controlled in flight by a gyroscope which operated the rudder and elevator whilst a pre-set air log, driven by the small propeller on the nose caused the bomb to dive or glide onto its target. The whole system was rather crude and was not capable of achieving great accuracy.
The V1 was perhaps the world’s first cruise missile and the first guided missile to be used en masse. The pulsejet engine had a grid of flap-valve springs in its inlet, which alternately admitted fresh air and then were blown shut against ram pressure by the ignition of the duct. The vibration made the engine noise and led to the infamous ‘buzz-bomb’ noise which would suddenly stop when the V1 was over its target.
At least 29,000 missiles were produced although the saturation attacks Hitler envisaged never took place, with the most efficient unit firing 316 on one day.
Post War Ex-Spanish Airforce Junkers Ju 52 in pre-war British Airways Ltd colours. Taken at the second mLearn 2008 Conference Dinner which was at the RAF Museum at RAF Cosford.
In its time, the Junkers Ju52/3m was rivalled only by the Douglas Dakota as a transport aircraft. It was used by the airlines of thirty countries and several Air Forces. A few examples still fly today with pleasure flight operators.
The Ju52 was the last in a series of corrugated metal-skinned Junkers aircraft. The first aircraft, fitted with a single engine, flew in October 1930. The first three-engined version, the Ju52/3m, flew in April 1932. Orders for this robust aircraft, which could carry seventeen passengers or eighteen troops, soon started coming in and included an order for three from the pre-war British Airways, in whose colours this example is displayed.
By 1934, the newly-formed Luftwaffe was flying bomber-transport Ju52s and the type was soon in action with the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion, which fought on the Nationalist side in the Spanish Civil War. In August 1936, Ju52s carried out what was then the biggest air-transportation operation ever mounted, carrying 14000 of General Franco's troops from Morocco to Spain.
During the Second World War the Ju52 became the Luftwaffe's standard workhorse and was known affectionately as 'Tante Ju' (Auntie Ju). Flown mainly as a transport, it also fulfilled air-ambulance and, more unusually, mine-clearance roles. For the latter it was fitted with a large metal hoop which could be energized by a motor to explode magnetic sea-mines.
After the Second World War it was built under licence for use by the Spanish Air Force.