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Description Famed astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon during the historic Apollo 11 space mission in July 1969, served for seven years as a research pilot at the NACA-NASA High-Speed Flight Station, now the Dryden Flight Research Center, at Edwards, California, before he entered the space program. Armstrong joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory (later NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, and today the Glenn Research Center) in 1955. Later that year, he transferred to the High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards as an aeronautical research scientist and then as a pilot, a position he held until becoming an astronaut in 1962. He was one of nine NASA astronauts in the second class to be chosen. As a research pilot Armstrong served as project pilot on the F-100A and F-100C aircraft, F-101, and the F-104A. He also flew the X-1B, X-5, F-105, F-106, B-47, KC-135, and Paresev. He left Dryden with a total of over 2450 flying hours. He was a member of the USAF-NASA Dyna-Soar Pilot Consultant Group before the Dyna-Soar project was cancelled, and studied X-20 Dyna-Soar approaches and abort maneuvers through use of the F-102A and F5D jet aircraft. Armstrong was actively engaged in both piloting and engineering aspects of the X-15 program from its inception. He completed the first flight in the aircraft equipped with a new flow-direction sensor (ball nose) and the initial flight in an X-15 equipped with a self-adaptive flight control system. He worked closely with designers and engineers in development of the adaptive system, and made seven flights in the rocket plane from December 1960 until July 1962. During those fights he reached a peak altitude of 207,500 feet in the X-15-3, and a speed of 3,989 mph (Mach 5.74) in the X-15-1. Armstrong has a total of 8 days and 14 hours in space, including 2 hours and 48 minutes walking on the Moon. In March 1966 he was commander of the Gemini 8 orbital space flight with David Scott as pilot - the first successful docking of two vehicles in orbit. On July 20, 1969, during the Apollo 11 lunar mission, he became the first human to set foot on the Moon.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: E56-2607
Date: January 1956
Wooden block set by Schowanek, marked as made in the U.S. Zone, Germany, which dates the design of the label to pre-1950.
This is a small set, the box size is approx. 70 x 80 mm, and the price label shows it was sold in Harrods for 4/6.
The company originated in the Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia. After the Second World War the factory was nationalised and continued to produce wooden toys in a similar style. The Schoanek company re-established itself firstly in Austria, and then in the western part of Germany.
The Norwegian word “seter” has no direct translation in english as far as I know. I have seen the term “summer farm” used, but that does not quite describe the the concept in my opinion, so a small explanation seems to be in order:
In the old Norwegian agricultural society most farms owned land areas in the mountains, which could only be used during the summer. In the winter all livestock were kept at the farm, but in the spring most of the animals were taken up in the mountains to take advantage of the rich pastures, whilst preserving the lowlands closer to the farm for hay production.
A “seter” is a cluster of smaller buildings used as a base for tending the livestock during the summer. Often buildings belonging to several farms were clustered together in small “villages”. The seter was usually operated by girls or young women (called “budeie”), which did the milking and made cheese and other dairy products.
Today this system is mostly extinct and most seters are no longer in use for their original purpose. Some buildings are abandoned and left to decay, but many, especially the log cabins, are still in use for recreational purposes as vacation homes both in the summer and the winter, and new vacation houses/cabins are often built around the old seter areas.
The buildings in this shot are in a pretty sad state of decay, and the left one has partially collapsed and will probably be completely gone in a few years. It makes me a bit sad to see old buildings disappear like this.
The picture was taken at dawn, and the sun is just about to appear behind the buildings.
The light was truly magical and I am happy that I managed to get out of bed early enough to catch it.
More pictures from this particular photo session to follow.
These images are created from exposure bracketed shots. For some parts of the images I used Photomatix to merge the bracketed shots, but most of the blending of the different exposures was done manually.
A Valentine's Day balloon that floated away; if you love something, set it free.
Testing another PC35 AF-M, but an SE model this time, which has a different grip and lacks ISO toggle to set ISO on non-DX marked rolls.
Cameras works okay, focuses and exposes well, but flash doesn't work. Also, although I cleaned a battery leak, power contact is lost occasionally, so I have to remove and re-insert batteries. Therefore, I ended up taking the battery door from this one to replace a missing door on another PC35 AF-M, so now I have 3 complete, fully-working units, and one mostly-working unit.
Pentax PC35 AF-M SE, test
Arista 200 @ 400
Blazinal 1:25, 5 minutes, 20°C/68°F
Pakon F135
As the sun sets, CSX power leads the UP AMEML off CSX track onto UP track. In the distance former Conrail engine NS 8449 is out front of an intermodal train on the UP main. BNSF 6070 is on BNSF main 2 with empty coal E MHSBKM0 52A.
Here's the set-up shot from this picture:
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This is the model, her cousin and aunt.
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This scuba set containg all parts listed will be sold for $12.00 in the new year. The hoses are new casts that utilize a pliable resin. The hose will be glued to the backpack and holes will be drilled into the helmet for easy assembly.
UPDATE (12.28.11)
Thank you to everyone for all replies and messages. I appoligize for my lack of communication. I am no longer selling items through Flikr and you can see my available items in my bricklink store at: www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=TheCloneFactory
I am currently in the process of reloading my store inventory and will update on of before January 10th.
The items that are not present in my store that will be include.
Scuba Helmet - $4.00
Clone Pilot Helmet - $4.00
Scuba Set - $12.00
I am also hoping that by then I will have the opportunity to cast the new ARC helmet
ARC Helmet - $3.00
If you have any further questions please let me know and I will update this info. Thanks.
A shot from tonight as the sun was going down.
Felt so nice to be in the woods after a very long week of working!
Next to an abandoned cabin on Squirrel Lake is this chair next to the remains of a fire pit surrounded by some fencing. When it was being used it must have been charming and quite isolated. All the other cabins are decades newer.
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Set Kira
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HUD Dress 16 Colors
HUD Transparency 17 Colors
HUD Sandal 16 Colors
HUD Chocker 10 Colors
Dress/Transparency: Belleza (Freya, Isis, Venus), Maitreya, Slink (Physique, Hourglass)
Sandal: Belleza (Freya, Isis, Venus), Maitreya, Slink (Physique, Hourglass)
Chocker: All Bodys
2xSB600 in 24x36 softboxes at 1/2 power camera left. Vivitar 285HV at 1/2 power on seamless. Fired using Flashpoint triggers.
For Macromondays - set
Not only is the stone set in gold, but so is also the lump of mud which I've only seen now it's uploaded. :-)