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Through the vast wastelands rumbles the Scavenger Mobile Base. Upon its mighty wheels was formed a mobile fortress from parts of various buildings recovered over the years. Now its operators sell off most spare parts to passing travelers.
-Lower the drawbridge to welcome travelers and explore by foot.
-Land air vessels on the rear platform or one of the cat walks above the command bridge.
-Raise and lower the Bionicle supported crane to hoist the latest finds onto the main platform.
-Join the mad scientists in the bridge to take control of the base.
-Visit the resident wizard in his tower for magical help.
-The build features removable bridge section and raisable tarp to provide access inside the lower level.
-The mobile base features all terrain treads and freely rotating rear wheels.
-Also includes a covered bin for smaller finds.
Shado Mobile 1 & Shado Mobile Control.
Seen at a secret Shado holding base awaiting deployment.
Product Enterprise diecast models. Diorama home made.
Inspired by the TV series UFO by Gerry Anderson.
HOUSTON - Six Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopters from Air Stations Mobile, New Orleans and Houston are brought inside the Air Station Houston hanger for protection and routine maintenance as they wait for Hurricane Isaac to make landfall, Aug. 28, 2012. A Mobile based HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane and two MH-60 Jayhawk helicopters are also pre-staged at the air station.Coast Guard units all along the Gulf Coast pre-staged assets and personnel to better assist anyone or thing in distress after Hurricane Isaac makes landfall.U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Richard Brahm.
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This planetary explorer (factory name: “PEX-1ML”) was designed as a mobile base (serving also as a laboratory and an observatory). It has all the necessary equipment to explore terrain of new planets. Its drivetrain and suspension was built to handle very rough terrain, while its body was constructed from materials that can withstand almost any weather conditions.
You can watch a video showcasing all of the functions here: www.flickr.com/photos/186152771@N07/51467442155/
Relieved of the bulk of the Mobile Base, the Tzar's Dropship becomes a formidable support fighter, which can act as air to ground support, or a wingman for the main fighter.
1 of the 3 Mobiles in the SHADO A.R.T. team (Access, Recovery, Transportation).
A Crack team of 3 Mobiles based in the Highlands (Scotland, UK).
Here is the Recovery Vehicle B3192 showing its heavy duty lifting and recovery gear.
Converted from a standard SHADO Mobile with 2 independent chain hooks, on board Workshop behind the cab area. This is a serious piece of SHADO kit used when nothing else can get near to wreckage. Numbered B3192. B = Britain, 3 = Base No.3 (Scottish Highland Area), 192 Vehicle service number.
Diecast vehicle converted from a standard Dinky Toys Shado Mobile by Dave Crittenden using etched metal and plastic parts with some finishing & minor detailing and lettering by myself. This is a one off Code 3 model.
Photos of the other 2 vehicles (Access and Transportation) will follow soon.
USS MIGUEL KEITH, PHILIPPINE SEA (Aug. 8, 2022) - A U.S. Marine CH-53E Super Stallion, with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 262 (Rein.), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, carries a joint light tactical vehicle over expeditionary mobile base USS Miguel Keith (ESB-5) in the Philippine Sea, Aug. 8, 2022. This exercise proves the 31st MEU can bring heavy equipment to even the most remote locations. The 31st MEU is operating aboard ships of the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group in the 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Christopher W. England) 220808-M-UF994-1005
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Hi ___________ confirming our QSO of _______ 196 __ at ___ A.M. ___ P.M. _____on channel _____ from the mobile _______ base ________ antenna __________________rig here.
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Your signals were _______________
Remarks:
This is the Balloon Shed in Farnborough. The portable airship hangar at Farnborough is designated as a Grade II listed builkding for the following principal reasons: * Historical interest: this portable airship shed introduced for airships the concept of a mobile base in order to provide airship cover where needed, and is the only building of this type known to have survived. * Historical interest: the portable airship hangar was built at Farnborough in 1912 at a time when Farnborough was becoming the foremost site for aviation development in the country, Info from Historic England.
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This planetary explorer (factory name: “PEX-1ML”) was designed as a mobile base (serving also as a laboratory and an observatory). It has all the necessary equipment to explore terrain of new planets. Its drivetrain and suspension was built to handle very rough terrain, while its body was constructed from materials that can withstand almost any weather conditions.
You can watch a video showcasing all of the functions here: www.flickr.com/photos/186152771@N07/51467442155/
BHC SRN5/SK5
PACV serial number 004 is the only surviving British Hovercraft Corporation-built US Navy PACV, and is currently preserved at the Bellingham International Maritime Museum. It is a combat veteran from Vietnam and served with BIMM'S MK I "65", from Mobile Base 1.
The XL-15 enters the LEGO City!
This set wouldn’t have been on my radar if it wasn’t for the buzz about the Lightyear film’s director being AFOL Angus MacLane (check out his builds on Flickr!).
Evidently, he pushed for the in-film design to have a yellow transparent canopy, reminiscent of the Classic Space elements.
He also had an interesting spot on LEGOCon, worth a check out.
The build of this one and a cat seater spaceship is substantial! As a medium sized ship it checks most boxes for me: fits all accessories, swoosh-ability is there, has mobile base in form of laptop (stretch), and droid in the Catbot (also stretch). No escape pod/rover, which loses some points when compared to the medium builds of my ‘90s childhood.
But the elements and connections this set brings to the table blow anything from my childhood away. There are a few elements that are super obscure.
Color scheme for the spaceship is great, can’t miss with light blue, white, and black with that yellow canopy.
Also bonus points for extra head/hair elements for minifigs.
Less stellar for me were the minifigs. Buzz looks pretty good, but I’d prefer the dome over a normal helmet (I’m sure that’s a movie plot detail). The other figs have nice printing, but are pretty mute brown, like something out of a Star Wars set.
The shoulder pauldrons for all of them are cumbersome to range of motion.
The rocket launcher build doesn’t really work out to be held, but I do appreciate the built up weapon/scanning accessories.
Very nice set, strong suggest for the building experience and MOC possibilities!
I left off the red stripes off the wings. Does it look cleaner? Worse? Let me know
I’ll be looking at more contemporary LEGO sets that are bringing back Classic Space soon!
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The M.O.B is one of the largest surface vessels EVER constructed, designed to act as a mobile base for UDKA forces during large campaigns the M.O.B is capable of carrying pretty much any aircraft from fighters and helicopters up to bombers and transport aircraft.
The M.O.B can also carry out R.A.S (Replenishment at Sea) ops for the UDKA fleets and be resupplied by the RAFA.
Standard Loads (Aircraft):
4x Vulcan Bombers
15x Eurofighter Typhoons - Multi-role
15x Eurofighter Typhoons - Air superiority
10x Tornado GR.4's - Ground Attack
Helicopters:
20x Westland Lynx helicopters
10x Av-22 Attack Osprey heavy gunships
10x Apache Longbird gunships
20x V-30 Super Ospreys
Carried Boats:
5x CB90 Patrol Boats
The Huntsman will never operate alone, at all times it will be escorted by surface vessels.
I've been delving into my old mocpages stuff and I'm finding things that I don't think are here on Flickr. Or I might've uploaded them but then deleted them before I went pro.
Built March 2010. This was something about the prequel to Blacktron: the lone rogue spaceman. Also, in hindsight, I seem to have been more original a few years ago. Maybe?
SASEBO, NAGASAKI, Japan (March 10, 2023) - Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) Capt. Tomotsu Motomura, assigned to JGSDF Western Army Aviation group, speaks with Aki Nichols, public affairs officer of Commander, Fleet Activities Sasebo (CFAS), during a tour of the Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary mobile base USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5) at CFAS Mar. 10, 2023. The Miguel Keith crew hosted the tour for JGSDF Western Army Aviation group personnel to familiarize them with the ship and aircraft landing procedures to support future bilateral training and operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Quinton Lee) 230310-N-WS494-1097
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An assault landing craft for use in DA3. Built to house the "Barricade" APC and act as a landing platform for the "Thunderbird Heavy". The "Tempest" can be used effectively as a mobile base of operations due to its size and massive internal and external capacity to support a variety of CLC military craft.
An assault landing craft for use in DA3. Built to house the "Barricade" APC and act as a landing platform for the "Thunderbird Heavy". The "Tempest" can be used effectively as a mobile base of operations due to its size and massive internal and external capacity to support a variety of CLC military craft.
An assault landing craft for use in DA3. Built to house the "Barricade" APC and act as a landing platform for the "Thunderbird Heavy". The "Tempest" can be used effectively as a mobile base of operations due to its size and massive internal and external capacity to support a variety of CLC military craft.
An assault landing craft for use in DA3. Built to house the "Barricade" APC and act as a landing platform for the "Thunderbird Heavy". The "Tempest" can be used effectively as a mobile base of operations due to its size and massive internal and external capacity to support a variety of CLC military craft.
This planetary explorer (factory name: “PEX-1ML”) was designed as a mobile base (serving also as a laboratory and an observatory). It has all the necessary equipment to explore terrain of new planets. Its drivetrain and suspension was built to handle very rough terrain, while its body was constructed from materials that can withstand almost any weather conditions.
You can watch a video showcasing all of the functions here: www.flickr.com/photos/186152771@N07/51467442155/
PHILIPPINE SEA (Aug. 7, 2022) Sailors assigned to the forward-deployed amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD 18) and serving on the Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure (VBSS) team, ride a rigid-hull inflatable boat (RHIB) on route to expeditionary mobile base USS Miguel Keith (ESB-5). New Orleans, part of the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group, along with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Desmond Parks) 220801-N-XB010-1024
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T-ESB-5 at NASSCO shipyard a few months after her launch. In fact, she was actually delivered to the Navy 2 days after I took this exposure. Her delivery was late after the ship suffered extensive damage when the drydock she was in flooded during construction.
USNS Miguel Kieth is an Expeditionary Mobile Base, derived from an Alaska class oil tanker. These ships support special forces missions, counter-piracy/smuggling operations, maritime security operations, and mine clearance, as well as humanitarian aid and disaster relief missions. Any helicopter in the USN/USMC inventory can use the flight deck, and the MV-22 Osprey is also going to undergo a suitability evaluation as well.
The flight deck is designed with 2 operating landing spots, parking space for 2 more aircraft, and hangar space for an additional 2.
USNS Miguel Keith is named in honor of Lance Corporal Miguel Keith, United States Marine Corps. The ship's namesake received the Medal of Honor posthumously for combat action during the Vietnam War in 1970.
Under construction at NASSCO shipyard. Built using modified Alaska-class oil tanker plans, ESB (Expeditionary Mobile Base) ships can be used where the threat level is lower. They are designed to support mine clearance, anti-piracy/smuggling and special forces operations.
Their flight deck can accommodate any USN/USMC helicopter, and there are plans to see if Osprey tilt rotors can be flown off them as well. The flight deck has 2 landing and 2 parking spots.
Due to the aviation facilities, the ESBs cannot partially submerge to float on/off LCACs.
Builder: NASSCO – San Diego, California
Cost: $134.9 million US$ (FY 2014)
Displacement:Approx. 78,000 long tons (87,000 short tons) fully loaded
Length:764 ft (233 m)
Beam:164 ft (50 m)
Draft:25.5 ft (7.8 m)
Installed power:Diesel-electric
Propulsion:Integrated power systems
Two (2) propellers
Speed:15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Range:9,500 nautical miles (17,600 km; 10,900 mi)
Boats and landing craft carried:Accommodation barge (298 mission-related personnel max.)
Complement:34 civilian mariners
Armament:None
Aircraft carried:Up to 4 CH-53 heavy-lift transport helicopters
Aviation facilities:Helicopter landing deck and hangar
Alongside her is CG-63, USS Cowpens, the 'Mighty Moo.'
80-G-32893: View of Battleship Row from a site near Mobile Base Hospital #2 during the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. USS Nevada (BB-36) is in the center distance. Large column of smoke to the left of her is from USS Shaw (DD-373), burning in the floating drydock YFD-2. "Battleship Row" is in the right center. Largest mass of smoke there comes from USS Arizona (BB-39). Similar to NH 97376. (Taken at NARA II on 8/27/2013).
SAN DIEGO (May 8, 2021) The crew of the Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary mobile base USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5) prepare to board the ship during the ship’s commissioning ceremony. Miguel Keith is the Navy’s third purpose-built expeditionary sea base (ESB). While originally created to operate as a support ship under Military Sealift Command, USS Miguel Keith has been commissioned to provide greater mission flexibility in accordance with the laws of armed conflict. It is the first U.S. warship named for Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Miguel Keith, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in Vietnam. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kevin C. Leitner)
An assault landing craft for use in DA3. Built to house the "Barricade" APC and act as a landing platform for the "Thunderbird Heavy". The "Tempest" can be used effectively as a mobile base of operations due to its size and massive internal and external capacity to support a variety of CLC military craft.
An assault landing craft for use in DA3. Built to house the "Barricade" APC and act as a landing platform for the "Thunderbird Heavy". The "Tempest" can be used effectively as a mobile base of operations due to its size and massive internal and external capacity to support a variety of CLC military craft.
SOUTH SEA CHINA (April 19, 2023) - Amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8), amphibious transport docks USS Anchorage (LPD 23) and USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26), expeditionary mobile base USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5), and Philippine navy ships BRP Jose Rizal (FF-150), BRP Gregorio Del Pilar (PS 15), and BRP Tarlac (FF 601) transit the South China Sea for Balikatan 23, April 19, 2023. Balikatan is an annual exercise between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and U.S. military designed to strengthen bilateral interoperability, capabilities, trust, and cooperation built over decades of shared experiences. The Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group, comprised of Makin Island, Anchorage, and John P. Murtha, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations with the embarked 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit to enhance interoperability with Allies and partners and serve as a ready-response force to defend peace and maintain stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joshua Martinez) 230419-N-EI127-1163
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The USNS Hershel "Woody" Williams, ESB 4, passes through Charleston Harbor. This ship is an Expeditionary Sea Base, designed to provide a mobile base to carry out missions including air mine counter measures, counter-piracy operations, maritime security operations, humanitarian aid, disaster relief missions, Marine Corps crisis response, and other Naval and Marine missions. It is named after the last surviving Medal of Honor recipient recognized for heroism at the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. July 28, 2019.
An assault landing craft for use in DA3. Built to house the "Barricade" APC and act as a landing platform for the "Thunderbird Heavy". The "Tempest" can be used effectively as a mobile base of operations due to its size and massive internal and external capacity to support a variety of CLC military craft.
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Meet the inaugural class of startups that will step aboard ‘Yacht Combinator’
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Unreasonable at Sea, a floating incubator for tech startups, has selected its first group of companies to expand their business operations while cruising through the high seas.
Invited to join the sailing party are founders, venture capitalists, and students from Semester at Sea, a shipboard program for global study. The ship will call to 14 international ports to learn how to bring their business operations to new markets. At each stop, they’ll pitch their ideas to local politicians, entrepreneurs, and business leaders.
The accelerator describes itself as “mentorship driven” and recently announced its A-list advisors. Y Combinator has nothing on these mentors — there’s even an archbishop to assist entrepreneurs on their spiritual quest. South African activist and Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu is confirmed to join, alongside Megan Smith (vice president of business development at Google), Matt Mullenweg (founder of WordPress), George Kembel (cofounder of the Stanford d.School), Phil McKinney (VP and CTO at Hewlett-Packard), and other big names.
Unreasonable at Sea is the brainchild of Daniel Epstein, the man behind the Unreasonable Institute, and an alumni of the Semester at Sea program. “From the entrepreneur’s perspective, it’s an opportunity to experiment with products and technology internationally. Startups can take their technology to another market to see what works and walk out with a globally relevant product,” Epstein told VentureBeat in a recent interview.
The voyage is from January 6, 2013 to April 25, 2013. The entrepreneurs will sail across the Pacific and India Oceans, starting in San Diego, and ending their journey in Barcelona. The ship will stop in Hawaii, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and India.
Eleven startups survived the highly competitive application process:
Aquaphytex installs all-natural plant systems to purify water at scale without any chemicals or energy. It’s currently operating in four countries, providing clean drinking water to over 300,000 people, and made over $4,000,000 in profit in the last three years.
Artificial Vision for the Blind uses artificial intelligence to help blind people see without surgery or invasive tech. It has developed a pair of glasses that has a camera, a mini-computer, and a transmitter that together, it says, activates the visual cortex of the brain and can enable blind people to see again — and read.
Damascus Fortune purifies carbon emissions and transforms them into a material to build cars, space ships, buildings, laptops, and mobile phones. It’s a Forbes “30 Under 30″ company and recognized by MIT’s Technology Review as part of the “The Top 20 Innovators List.”
Evolving Technologies produces affordable medical technology and products to bring medical care to areas that are underserved. Its main product is a light, portable edoscopy for woman’s health. It claims the device is over 10 times cheaper than current market alternatives.
Innoz has 15 million active users across India submitting over half a million inquiries on their mobile SMS platform each day. Innoz is a mobile and wireless company, and it claims it’s transforming the mobile device into a learning tool by giving its users access to the Internet and all its information via SMS.
Prakti Design is a cookstove developer, designer, and manufacturer and distributor. Ranked as most efficient affordable stove in the world by Berkeley Labs, it has operations currently in five countries. It claims that over 250,000 meals served a day from their stoves.
Protei makes wind-powered, shape-shifting, open-source sailing robots used to sense and clean the ocean. This autonomous robot could help clean up oil spills and plastic in the ocean as well as collect invaluable data about the environment from the oceans.
Sasa is a mobile-based e-commerce marketplace that connects offline artisans to global consumers. It claims that it revolutionizes the supply chain into a peer-to-peer exchange and empowers women in Africa to create sustainable micro-enterprises.
Solar Ear produces affordable hearing aids and solar-powered battery chargers, made by the hearing impaired for the hearing impaired in developing countries. It has sold products in over 40 countries and has manufacturing facilities in two nations. It has generated over $1 million in revenue.
The IOU Project says it’s dedicated to radically shifting the dynamics of supply chains in apparel. Through the creation of its own apparel company, the IOU Project focuses on bringing transparency into the supply chain and driving significantly more money into the producers’ hands. The platform it has built to do this could serve as a new industry standard as IOU will “white-label” it to all major apparel companies on earth.
Vita Beans Neural Solutions: Train a teacher and you will transform the lives of hundreds of students. This belief has led Vita Beans to create a “gamified” teaching software platform that is intuitive, affordable, and easily adopted by teachers, schools, and governments.
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KSC-02PD-0887 (06/05/2002) --- KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The STS-111 and Expedition 5 crews hurry from the Operations and Checkout Building for a second launch attempt aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. From front to back are Pilot Paul Lockhart and Commander Kenneth Cockrell; Astronaut Peggy Whitson; Expedition 5 Commander Valery Korzun (RSA) and Cosmonaut Sergei Treschev (RSA); and Mission Specialists Philippe Perrin (CNES) and Franklin Chang-Diaz. This mission marks the 14th Shuttle flight to the Space Station and the third Shuttle mission this year. Mission STS-111 is the 18th flight of Endeavour and the 110th flight overall in NASA's Space Shuttle program. On mission STS-111, astronauts will deliver the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, the Mobile Base System (MBS), and the Expedition Five crew to the Space Station. During the seven days Endeavour will be docked to the Station, three spacewalks will be performed dedicated to installing MBS and the replacement wrist-roll joint on the Station's Canadarm2 robotic arm. Endeavour will also carry the Expedition 5 crew, who will replace Expedition 4 on board the Station. Expedition 4 crew members will return to Earth with the STS-111 crew. Liftoff is scheduled for 5:22 p.m. EDT from Launch Pad 39A.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The U.S. flag and orbiter's flag wave in the foreground after Space Shuttle Endeavour's rollout to Launch Pad 39A from the Vehicle Assembly Building. The Shuttle comprises the orbiter, in front, and the taller orange external tank behind it flanked by twin solid rocket boosters. Mission STS-111 is designated UF-2, the 14th assembly flight to the International Space Station. Endeavour's payload includes the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Leonardo and Mobile Base System. The mission also will swap resident crews on the Station, carrying the Expedition 5 crew and returning to Earth Expedition 4. Liftoff of Endeavour is scheduled between 4 and 8 p.m. May 30, 2002. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
The 155mm Gun M1 and M2 (later M59) widely known as ''Long Tom'' were 155mm caliber field guns used as a heavy field weapon and is also classed as secondary armament for seacoast defense by the United States armed forces during World War Two and Korean War. The Long Tom replaced the Canon de 155mm GPF in United States service. The gun could fire a 100 lb shell to a maximum range of 13.7 miles, with an estimated accuracy life of 1,500 rounds.
Before entering World War One, the United States was poorly equipped with heavy artillery. To address this problem a number of foreign heavy artillery guns were adopted, including the Canon de 155mm GPF. After the end of the war development work began in the United States on a design to improve upon the existing models of heavy gun and carriage. A number of prototypes were produced in the 1920's and 1930's, but the projects were put on hold due to lack of funds. In 1938 the 155mm Gun T4 on Carriage T2 was finally adopted as 155mm gun M1 on Carriage M1.
The new gun design used a barrel similar to the earlier 155mm GPF, but with an Asbury breech that incorporated a vertically-hinged breech plug support. This type of breech used an interrupted-thread breach plug with a lock that opened and closed the breech by moving a single lever. The ammunition for the 155mm gun was "separate-loading", that is with the shell and the powder charge are packaged, shipped and stored separately. The shell is lifted into position behind the breach and then rammed into the chamber to engage the shell's rotating band into the barrel rifling.
Ramming the shell home is followed by loading a number of powder bags, as required for the desired range. The powder charge could be loaded in up to seven charge settings. Once the powder is loaded, the breech plug is closed and locked, and a primer is placed in the breech plug's firing mechanism. After setting the elevation and azimuth, the gun is ready to fire. The firing mechanism is a device for initiating the ammunition primer. The primer then sets off the igniter which ignites the propelling charge of the ammunition. A continuous-pull lanyard first cocks the firing pin, then fires the primer when pulled. The gun was developed into M1A1 and M2 variants. After World War Two, the United States Army re-organized, and the gun was re-designated as the M59.
The gun carriage provides a stable, yet mobile, base for the gun. The new split-trail carriage featured an eight-wheel integral two-axle bogie and a two-wheel limber that supported the trails for transport. The carriage was a two-piece design. The upper carriage included the side frames with trunnion bearings that supported the recoil mechanism that carried the gun cradle, slide and gun tube. The upper carriage also incorporated the elevating and azimuth gearing. The upper carriage pivoted in azimuth on the lower carriage. The lower carriage included the transport suspension and the split-trail that stabilized and absorbed recoil when the gun was fired.
Placed in a firing position with the gun pointing in the desired direction, the trails were lowered to the ground and the limber was removed. The carriage wheels would then be raised using built-in ratcheting screw-jacks, lowering the gun carriage to the ground. Once on the ground, the limber-end of the trail legs were separated to form a wide "vee" with its apex at the center of the carriage pivot point. A recoil spade at the limber-end of each trail leg required a correctly positioned hole to be dug for the spade, which was attached to the trail end, to transmit the recoil from gun carriage through the trails and into the earth. This made the gun very stable and assisted its accuracy. The removable spades were transported in brackets on the trail legs. The carriage M1 and M2 were shared with the 8 inch Howitzer M1, differing only in the gun tube, sleigh, cradle, recoil and equilibrators, weight due to the heavier barrel.
General characteristics -
▪︎Type: Towed Field Artillery
▪︎Place of Origin: United States
▪︎Used By: United States / Italy / Australia / Greece / Austria / Japan / Jordan / South Korea / Republic of China / Turkey / Pakistan / Croatia / South Africa / United Kingdom / Yugoslavia / Netherlands
▪︎Conflicts: World War Two / Korean War / Cambodian Civil War / Croatian War of Independence ▪︎Designed: 1918 to 1938
▪︎Produced: 1940 to 1945
▪︎Number Built: 1,882
▪︎Mass: 30,600 lb travel
▪︎Length: 36 ft 1 in travel
▪︎Barrel Length: 22 ft 10 in L/45
▪︎Width: 8 ft 2 in travel
▪︎Height: 8 ft 10 in travel
▪︎Crew: 14
▪︎Shell: Separate loading charge and projectile
▪︎Caliber: 155 mm (6.10 in)
▪︎Breech: Asbury mechanism
▪︎Recoil: Hydro-pneumatic
▪︎Carriage: M1 Carriage
▪︎Elevation: −2°/+65°
▪︎Traverse: 60°
▪︎Rate of Fire: 40 rounds per hour
▪︎Muzzle Velocity: 2,799 ft/s
▪︎Maximum Firing Range: 14.7 miles.
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I've been delving into my old mocpages stuff and I'm finding things that I don't think are here on Flickr. Or I might've uploaded them but then deleted them before I went pro.
Built March 2010. This was something about the prequel to Blacktron: the lone rogue spaceman. Also, in hindsight, I seem to have been more original a few years ago. Maybe?
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What’s Brewing at Massive Health? A Chat with Newly Funded Co-Founders Sutha Kamal and Aza Raskin by Wade Roush
Forget stealth mode—these days the coolest pre-launch Silicon Valley companies are in ninja mode. That’s how Sutha Kamal, the CEO of San Francisco-based Massive Health, describes his situation in a blog post today announcing the company’s $2.25 million seed funding round.
Luckily, I got Kamal and co-founder Aza Raskin to come far enough out of their ninja-turtle shells to tell me a little bit about the company and its plans, which center on using mobile apps to help people with chronic conditions like diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and heart disease take charge of their own health. The company expects to release its first app sometime this year, Kamal said.
Certainly, these guys have plenty of street cred on the software, wireless, and product design sides. Kamal managed mobile strategy and product design at TransGaming Technologies, a Canadian iPhone game developer, and ran a mobile content portal called Ambient Vector. Raskin was the head of user experience at Mozilla Labs and ultimately became creative lead for the Firefox browser. After leaving Mozilla in December to start Massive Health, Raskin blogged that “healthcare needs to have its design renaissance,” and said he wanted to apply his experience building products that are “disruptively easier and more enjoyable to use” to the challenge of helping people stay healthy.
But exactly how a team of three product-and-programming guys (Kamal and Raskin are joined by engineering lead Doug Soo, formerly of Linden Lab) plans to disrupt the notoriously complex, messy, and intractable economy of U.S. healthcare isn’t clear yet. Judging from Kamal’s post, the company’s apps will incorporate all the fashionable elements you might expect—crowdsourcing, game mechanics, the social graph, data analysis, and “tight feedback loops”—but in ways that aren’t reminiscent of today’s social-networking apps. “We’re not proposing giving you a badge for eating your broccoli or letting you check-in and become duke of ranch dressing,” Kamal writes, in a cheeky dig at Foursquare.
That seems to have been enough to convince investors. The unusually large seed round—which is almost Series A-sized—comes from an all-star team of venture investors, including Mohr Davidow Ventures, Greylock Partners’ Discovery Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Aydin Senkut’s Felicis Ventures, Charles River Ventures, and the Collaborative Fund, as well as a group of “amazing angels” that the company hasn’t identified.
Now that the company has some money to throw around, it says it’s hiring—current job listings call for a “Front-End(ish) Engineer” and a “Back-End(ish) Engineer.” Applicants should be able to “run with the ball without guidance but know when to pass or assist,” the startup’s site says, but winningly adds, “Getting sports analogies shouldn’t be your strong point.”
Here’s a writeup of my brief conversation today with Kamal and Raskin.
Xconomy: You guys have managed to stay pretty deep in stealth mode. What are you up to, and what will the new funding help you do?
Aza Raskin: We looked at the state of the world and realized that 90 percent of U.S. healthcare costs go to 15 percent of patients—people with diabetes, weight loss problems, hypertension, heart disease. We are trying to create fantastically user-centric products that tackle these really hard problems that are going to be the pandemics of our times. The reason we raised as much as we did, $2.25 million as a seed round, was to give us the leeway to make products that actually change users’ behavior. Why is it that you can have fantastically designed products when you want to make a phone call or listen to music, but when you’re sick you’re back to something that feels clinical and sterile? It’s no wonder people have trouble changing their behavior.
X: Isn’t one of the problems that there’s a fundamentally separate economy for healthcare? As soon as someone gets sick, it’s no longer consumer themselves making choices and paying the costs, it’s doctors making choices and insurers paying. In a market like that, how do you build products that restore individual control?
AR: There’s an analogy here, and I say it with humility—I’m about to compare us with Apple, so take it with a grain of salt. But if you look at the telephony space of even a couple of years ago, a lot of companies had to pander to the carriers, and they couldn’t make a product that focused on the person. Apple changed all that. So when we look at the health space, we see an analogy. Many companies work on the clinical side of things first. We want to flip that around and work with people first and the clinical side second.
Sutha Kamal: We’re going after a problem that’s been pretty difficult, but there are a couple of novel things going on in the landscape. Healthcare costs have been rising faster than inflation, but for the last few years some employers have begun to move a few of those costs back to employees, so people have having to take more responsibility. Through healthcare savings accounts they’re being given a tax-free way to save for their healthcare. So people are being given specific forms of control. And two-thirds of large employers are looking for ways to pay people to take better care of their health. We have a couple of novel approaches to helping with this, and that is why investors are coming to us.
X: What are those novel approaches?
AR: One of the major problems with medicine as it stands now is that you spend, on average, 7 minutes per visit with your physician. The average person with diabetes spends one minute talking about their blood glucose with their physician. That’s not enough time to determine trends or even to ask a simple question like “What can I do today to make my life better than it was yesterday?” But Silicon Valley is full of data geeks. We are data geeks. We can correlate all the activities you do—whether it’s exercise or controlling your blood sugar or your weight—to the kinds of actions that make your life better.
SK: One of the beautiful things about mobile is that you have this proliferation of really cheap sensors. Think about your smartphone—it has a camera, an accelerometer, GPS, a gyroscope. We are at an inflection point on the hardware side where the average consumer can have a lot of sensors gathering data about things impacting their health. We can take that and build things of real value and help them make the changes they need to make.
X: Tell me why you chose to take money from these specific investors.
SK: MDV is a great partner because they get healthcare and technology in a really deep way. We are taking a different approach to healthcare; we look and talk and walk like a software company, but we are focusing on healthcare problems, and they get that. We are also a big Internet company, in terms of our product, so getting some of the best Internet investors was really important to us. Having Greylock and Andreessen Horowitz on board is really helpful to us, because these are guys who really understand how you scale to epic sizes. Aydin Senkut at Felicis Ventures helped grow Google from its tiny kernel of 20 people to a huge company and understands how you build the right team and do tremendous deals with others.
AR: In the end we were overcommitted by a good amount for this raise, and we were in the extremely lucky position of being able to pick and choose who we thought were the very best investors. One we have is Collaborative Fund, which invests in sustainable social-good ventures. Being able to put these kinds of people around the table is a unique advantage.
X: So, you’ve hinted that you’re making mobile apps that help people with chronic health conditions through some kind of data collection and analysis. Who do you see as the paying customers? Are you talking about selling apps or subscription services directly to consumers, or offering mobile-based behavioral-health programs to large employers, or both?
SK: We’re taking on a part of healthcare where individuals have a powerful interest in positive change, so we think it’s completely reasonable to think there will be a consumer revenue stream. At the same time, the types of things we are doing will drive tremendous cost savings [for employers]. The focus is to build the best products and get people really living it. Who the economic buyer is, is less important at the moment. We are really focused on delivering the right experiences, and if we get that right the rest will follow pretty easily.
USS Miguel Keith (ESB-5) (formerly USNS Miguel Keith (T-ESB-5)) is a Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary mobile base, one of three such ships in service with the United States Navy (USN) as of late 2021.
The ship was named in honor of US Marine Corps Lance Corporal Miguel Keith by Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer at the 242nd Marine Corps Birthday Ball held in National Harbor, Maryland, on 5 November 2017. The ship's namesake received the Medal of Honor posthumously for combat action in Quang Ngai Province during the Vietnam War in 1970.
An Expeditionary Transfer Dock (ESD), formerly the Mobile Landing Platform (MLP), is designed to be a semi-submersible, flexible, modular platform providing the US Navy with the capability to perform large-scale logistics movements such as the transfer of vehicles and equipment from sea to shore. These ships significantly reduce the dependency on foreign ports and provide support in the absence of port availability. The class also houses a sub-class variant called the Expeditionary Mobile Base (ESB), formerly the Afloat Forward Staging Base (AFSB).
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USS Miguel Keith (ESB-5) (formerly USNS Miguel Keith (T-ESB-5)) is a Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary mobile base, one of three such ships in service with the United States Navy (USN) as of late 2021.
The ship was named in honor of US Marine Corps Lance Corporal Miguel Keith by Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer at the 242nd Marine Corps Birthday Ball held in National Harbor, Maryland, on 5 November 2017. The ship's namesake received the Medal of Honor posthumously for combat action in Quang Ngai Province during the Vietnam War in 1970.
An Expeditionary Transfer Dock (ESD), formerly the Mobile Landing Platform (MLP), is designed to be a semi-submersible, flexible, modular platform providing the US Navy with the capability to perform large-scale logistics movements such as the transfer of vehicles and equipment from sea to shore. These ships significantly reduce the dependency on foreign ports and provide support in the absence of port availability. The class also houses a sub-class variant called the Expeditionary Mobile Base (ESB), formerly the Afloat Forward Staging Base (AFSB).
(Text Wikipedia)
USS Miguel Keith (ESB-5) (formerly USNS Miguel Keith (T-ESB-5)) is a Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary mobile base, one of three such ships in service with the United States Navy (USN) as of late 2021.
The ship was named in honor of US Marine Corps Lance Corporal Miguel Keith by Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer at the 242nd Marine Corps Birthday Ball held in National Harbor, Maryland, on 5 November 2017. The ship's namesake received the Medal of Honor posthumously for combat action in Quang Ngai Province during the Vietnam War in 1970.
An Expeditionary Transfer Dock (ESD), formerly the Mobile Landing Platform (MLP), is designed to be a semi-submersible, flexible, modular platform providing the US Navy with the capability to perform large-scale logistics movements such as the transfer of vehicles and equipment from sea to shore. These ships significantly reduce the dependency on foreign ports and provide support in the absence of port availability. The class also houses a sub-class variant called the Expeditionary Mobile Base (ESB), formerly the Afloat Forward Staging Base (AFSB).
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Chris Davis, a 15-year driving veteran and owner-operator, keeps his speed to an average of 62 mph and uses a gear shifting indicator to keep his 1999 Freightliner with a mid-roof sleeper (shown here) cruising in the sweet spot. As a result, his truck can typically get an astonishing 7.5 mpg fuel economy hauling a 43,000-pound load even though it's equipped with a 500-hp Detroit Diesel engine. With Drivewyze PreClear Weigh Station bypass, Davis also realizes significant savings. He had a pull-in rate of just 2 percent in December - 44 bypass opportunities with 43 granted. And between April 26, 2013, when he activated the service, and the end of the year, he had 341 bypass opportunities with 306 granted. The Drivewyze report calculated that in December alone, Davis reduced his delays at weigh stations by 3.6 hours and saved $373.24 on fuel costs. Since he activated PreClear, the report estimates that he has saved about $2,650 in time and fuel costs. (Photo courtesy of Chris Davis).
The EKHO Mobile Workshop was designed and custom built from a "clean sheet of paper" by Elton Hammond P.Eng. (using AutoCAD 3D) to market to woodworkers who need to roll their large and heavy cabinet saw out of the way. It has enough features and accessories to act as a complete self contained Mobile Workshop. Great for the weekend woodworker who may have to share shop space with a car, truck, RV, motorcycle, lawn tractor, etc. Out of my many hundreds of 3D AutoCAD designed products and projects over the years this prototype turned out the closest to the drawings of any I have done! This close match is a reflection of the considerable time and research that went into the design and planning phase before starting the build.If you want to order EKHO's very detailed PDF book plans for this beautiful design please phone 613-822-6935 or email sales at ekho.com .
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S129-E-006746 (19 Nov. 2009) --- Astronaut Robert L. Satcher Jr., STS-129 mission specialist, participates in the mission's first session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 37-minute spacewalk, Satcher and astronaut Mike Foreman (out of frame), mission specialist, installed a spare S-band antenna structural assembly to the Z1 segment of the station's truss, or backbone. Foreman and Satcher also installed a set of cables for a future space-to-ground antenna on the Destiny laboratory and replaced a handrail on the Unity node with a new bracket used to route an ammonia cable that will be needed for the Tranquility node when it is delivered next year. The two spacewalkers also repositioned a cable connector on Unity, checked S0 truss cable connections, and lubricated latching snares on the Kibo robotic arm and the station's mobile base system.
The EKHO Mobile Workshop was designed and custom built from a "clean sheet of paper" by Elton Hammond P.Eng. (using AutoCAD 3D) to market to woodworkers who need to roll their large and heavy cabinet saw out of the way. It has enough features and accessories to act as a complete self contained Mobile Workshop. Great for the weekend woodworker who may have to share shop space with a car, truck, RV, motorcycle, lawn tractor, etc. Out of my many hundreds of 3D AutoCAD designed products and projects over the years this prototype turned out the closest to the drawings of any I have done! This close match is a reflection of the considerable time and research that went into the design and planning phase before starting the build. If you want to order EKHO's very detailed PDF book plans for this beautiful design please phone 613-822-6935 or email elton.hammond at ekho.com .
Click on this link for safe automated payment by Paypal to receive your high quality plans in less than an hour. www.ekho.com/products.html
A view from Valletta of a complex Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary mobile base ship, for support of special forces missions, counter-piracy/smuggling operations, maritime security operations, and mine clearance, as well as humanitarian aid and disaster relief missions.
Seen alongside in Palumbo Malta Shipyard. Note the cordon in place around her.
IMO 9804306
Built 2018 GD/NASSCO, USA
>60,000t dwt
11Apr2023
In April 1996, Peggy A. Whitson was selected as an Astronaut Candidate and started training in August 1996.
Whitson trained as the backup ISS commander for Expedition 14 from November 2005 to September 2006.
She completed two six-month tours of duty aboard the International Space Station, the second as the station commander for Expedition 16 in April 2008. This was Whitson’s second long-duration spaceflight. She has accumulated 377 days in space between the two missions, the most for any woman as of October 2012.
Whitson has also performed a total of six career spacewalks, adding up to 39 hours and 46 minutes.
The Expedition 5 crew launched on June 5, 2002, aboard STS-111/Endeavour and docked with the International Space Station on June 7, 2002. During her six-month stay aboard the space station, Whitson installed the Mobile Base System, the S1 truss segment and the P1 truss segment, using the Space Station Remote Manipulator System; performed a four-hour and 25-minute Orlan spacewalk to install micrometeoroid shielding on the Zvezda Service Module and activated and checked out the Microgravity Sciences Glovebox, a facility class payload rack.
She was named the first NASA Science Officer during her stay, and she conducted 21 investigations in human life sciences and microgravity sciences as well as commercial payloads. The Expedition 5 crew (one American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts) returned to Earth aboard STS-113/Endeavour on December 7, 2002. Completing her first flight, Whitson logged 184 days, 22 hours and 14 minutes in space.
(The other crewmembers of E. 5, shown here: Valery Korzun and Sergei Treschev.)
The Expedition 16 crew of Whitson and Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko launched on October 10, 2007, aboard a Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft and docked with the International Space Station on October 12, 2007.
The third crew member position for this expedition was filled by astronauts rotating in and out via shuttle flights and included Clay Anderson, Dan Tani, Leo Eyharts and Garrett Reisman. During Expedition 16, as commander, Whitson oversaw the first expansion of the station’s living and working space in more than six years.
The station and visiting space shuttle crews added the Harmony connecting node, the European Space Agency’s Columbus laboratory, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kibo logistics pressurized module and the Canadian Space Agency’s Dextre robot.
Whitson performed five spacewalks to conduct assembly and maintenance tasks outside the complex. Whitson and Malenchenko undocked from the station and returned to Earth on April 19, 2008, aboard the Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft. Whitson logged 192 days in space.
While hosting the STS-112 crew for a week, the Expedition Five crewmembers pose for a photo in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). From the left are cosmonaut Valery G. Korzun, mission commander; astronaut Peggy A. Whitson and cosmonaut Sergei Y. Treschev, both flight engineers. Korzun and Treschev represent Rosaviakosmos. A model of the station is visible floating with the crew.
I sent this photo to Whitson on 11 June 2014, receiving it back 2 Feb. 2015. Never give up on your photos!
Korzun was added at the 30th Planetary Congress in October 2017.
In addition to his stint on ISS E. 5, on March 2, 1997 Korzun returned to earth after completing a 197-day flight onboard the MIR space station. The program included joint flights with NASA/MIR 2, 3 and 4 astronauts, as well as astronauts from France and Germany. During the mission, Korzun performed 2 space walks totaling 12 hours and 33 minutes.
And this photo was completed at the 31st ASE Planetary Conference, Minsk, Belarus, in mid-September 2018, by Treschev. ISS E. 5 was his first spaceflight.
ISS021-E-030165 (19 Nov. 2009) --- Astronaut Mike Foreman, STS-129 mission specialist, participates in the mission's first session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 37-minute spacewalk, Foreman and astronaut Robert L. Satcher Jr. (out of frame), mission specialist, installed a spare S-band antenna structural assembly to the Z1 segment of the station's truss, or backbone. Foreman and Satcher also installed a set of cables for a future space-to-ground antenna on the Destiny laboratory and replaced a handrail on the Unity node with a new bracket used to route an ammonia cable that will be needed for the Tranquility node when it is delivered next year. The two spacewalkers also repositioned a cable connector on Unity, checked S0 truss cable connections, and lubricated latching snares on the Kibo robotic arm and the station's mobile base system.