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My dress will include these pockets and the view B shoulder buttons, but I don't care for the split front w/ grommets.
www.jcrew.com/womens_category/dresses/day/PRDOVR~F1836/F1...
I also put the items I use less often further back, and got rid of a lot of items I have not used in ages. I cycled some panties I had not worn in a while back into the more commonly used section to spice things up, but got rid of any that were uncomfortable and meant I tended not to wear them. My best friend will be happy to note I culled a bunch of my granny bras. Of course I am mostly wearing nursing bras now anyway.
When a car focuses on performance instead of aesthetics, you get a very subtle package that is very appeasing.
281:365 - Simplify: A macro lens, a spray bottle, and the first time you've seen the sun since Friday. Simple recipe for a quick macro shot.
Photo was taken Dec 28th, 2011. This is Skaha Lake in British Columbia. Photo was taken with a Nikon D300 10-24mm lens 5 exposures. Processed in Photomatix Pro and then duplicate file processed in Topaz Simplify.
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Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based on historical facts. BEWARE!
Some background:
The FVM JF-22 ("JF" for Jaktflygplan = fighter aircraft) was a Swedish biplane fighter. It had been designed as a private venture by Gösta von Porat and Henry Kjellson at Flygcompaniets Verkstäder at Malmen (FVM) as a potential replacement for to the Swedish Air Force’s contemporary main fighter aircraft, the J1. This was the Austro-Hungarian Phönix D.III, a design dating back to WWI. A total of 10 J1s were operated since 1920, but the type was already outdated upon arrival, and the fleet’s small size was not sufficient, either.
The original design was designated JF-21. It was one of three biplanes amongst the FVM designs submitted to the Swedish Defense Department, along with competing designs from the national ASJA and Sparmann companies. After an extensive review the JF-21 was chosen in 1923 for limited production for evaluative purposes. The first prototype aircraft was built in early 1924. The JF-21 was a single-bay, unstaggered biplane of conventional configuration. The wings were braced with N-struts at around half-span, ailerons were only fitted to the lower wings in order to simplify construction and save weight, and the aircraft was powered by an imported Hispano-Suiza V8 engine that delivered 224 kW (300 hp). A training version, a two-seater designated Ö-21, was also created, powered with the same engine as the fighter but with a less powerful 180 hp version.
Testing revealed some serious stability deficiencies in the JF-21, and the first prototype was lost in a crash on 25th on May 1924, almost killing the pilot. Production was halted after just four airframes, but FVM did not give up on the design. A subsequent redesign in late 1924 morphed the aircraft into its final form as the JF-22. Changes included a wider span of the upper wing, a slightly longer rear fuselage with bigger tail surfaces (a fixed fin was added to the all-movable rudder) and a lifting fairing for the landing gear axle. All these measures were intended to improve flight stability and low speed handling. Furthermore, the interplane bracing was straightened and allowed, as a positive side effect, for a better field of view for the pilot.
Initially, two JF-22s were built during the winter 1924/25 and ready for testing in Spring 1925. Even though the flight characteristics were markedly improved the aircraft still showed some nervous handling characteristics that called for an experienced pilot. Further measures like spats on the main wheels (tested on the 1st prototype in late 1925) did not much improve these deficiencies. In consequence, the Swedish Air Force formally rejected the JF-22 in 1926, after three fighters and two trainers had been built and handed over to frontline units for trials and field evaluation.
At that time, FVM also had two further, experimental variants of the aircraft on the drawing boards, but none of them made it to the hardware stage. These were the JF-22J with a more powerful Jupiter radial engine (with an eye on the export market) and a dedicated race plane, the JF-22R, which was powered by a boosted HS-8Fb engine that delivered 298 kW (400 hp) and was outfitted with the JF-21’s former, shorter wings. The Swedish air force showed no interest and export customers did not materialize, either. In June 1927, FVM was successful in trials staged by the Belgian Air Force and submitted a JF-22 (the 3rd prototype), but the type was once again not accepted.
Instead of the FVM JF-22, the Swedish Air Force adopted the J2 and J3 for service, even though these were rather observation aircraft than pure fighters. Eventually, the indigenous J5/6 was chosen as Sweden’s new single seat fighter in 1930 – and by that time the technical development had advanced so far that the JF-22 had become obsolete.
General characteristics:
Crew: One
Length: 6.87 m (22 ft 6 in)
Wingspan: 8.90 m (29 ft 2 in)
Height: 2.74 m (9 ft 0 in)
Wing area: 21 m² (240 sq ft)
Empty weight: 765 kg (1,687 lb)
Gross weight: 1,075 kg (2,370 lb)
Fuel capacity: 140 kg (310 lb)
Powerplant:
1× Hispano-Suiza 8Fb V-8 water-cooled piston engine, 224 kW (300 hp) at 1,850rpm,
driving a 2-bladed wooden propeller
Performance:
Maximum speed: 250 km/h (160 mph, 130 kn)
Stall speed: 90 km/h (56 mph, 49 kn)
Range: 600–650 km (370–400 mi, 320–350 nmi)
Time to altitude: 7,000 m (23,000 ft) in 35 min
Armament:
2× m/22 fixed 8 mm (0.315 in) machine guns (license built .30 AN/M2's) with 500 rounds each,
fitted with synchronization gear and firing through the propeller.
The kit and its assembly:
This relatively simple whif was actually inspired by a decal set for a Swedish J1 biplane. In order to have a “canvas” to put this scheme onto, a suitable aircraft had to be found – and it became the vintage (and dirty cheap) KP kit of the Avia H-21.
The kit turned out to be much better than expected. It has some flash, but the surface and interior details are nice, the kit comes with anything you’d ask for. It’s really good except for a mediocre fit, but that’s acceptable for the molds’ age and, thanks to the simple shapes, PSR is an easy task.
Even though the model depicts a fictional Swedish fighter, the kit was built almost OOB and stays close to the Avia H-21, which is IMHO quite elegant. I just reduced the lower wings’ span (which are on the H-21 wider than the upper wing!) for a slightly more conventional look. The propeller was replaced with a better one from the scrap box (IIRC from a Revell SPAD XIII), together with a metal axis and a respective styrene tube adapter. A small fin was added in front of the free-standing rudder (from a Revell Sopwith Triplane), and I added a set of spats that I had found in the spares bin, too. Rigging was done post-painting with heated/stretched black sprue material.
Painting and markings:
The paint scheme is based on a Swedish J1 around 1925, with a pretty three-tone camouflage consisting of two green tones and a sand brown. According to the cource, the undersides were light blue, but I have doubts because unpainted linen ("Duk") was more common on the J1s.
With this basis I did some legwork in trustworthy literature and found the following guesstimates for the respective colors: Ljusbrun: Humbrol 234 (Dark Skin Tone, for a pale reddish earth tone), Mellangrön: Revell 363 (Fern Green) and Mörkgron (I used Modelmaster’s RAF Dark Green, similar to USAF Forest Green FS 34079). Instead of the contemporary standard lacquered fabric underneath I painted the undersides in Humbrol 23 (RAF Duck Egg Green).
The engine cover was painted with Humbrol 56, the cockpit interior in Tamiya 57 (Light Buff), simulating unpainted but lacquered fabric. The wing struts as well as the propeller blades were painted in a streaky wet-in-wet mix of Humbrol 62 and 71, simulating wood grain on lacquered wood. The rudder flash was painted with Humbrol 99 and 104.
The model was lightly weathered with a thin black ink washing and some dry-brushing, emphasizing the fabric structures and the model's fine raised surface details. Graphite was used for some exhaust stains.
Markings/decals were minimal: The 1927-style roundels came from a Swedish pre-WWII D.H. Tiger Moth trainer (AZ Models aftermarket sheet), the tactical code was created with single digits in a proper Swedish 1927 font (Flying Colors Aerodecals). Everything was sealed with matt acrylic varnish and the rigging was done as the final step.
A small and quick project, building was done in just two days plus final rigging on day three. While not spectacular, the modified Avia H-21 in Swedish markings looks quite convincing, even more so because it depicts a prototype that never made it into service. And it’s colorful, too! ^^
Just a little fun with spheres. The sphere above each one has a two stud difference between the one below it.
Operations image of the week:
The flight dynamics experts working on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter mission meet regularly to assess progress of the spacecraft's almost-year-long aerobraking manoeuvres at Mars.
The TGO orbiter swung into an initial, highly elliptical orbit at Mars on 19 October last year.
Aerobraking - using drag from the faint wispy tendrils of the upper-most part of the martian atmosphere to slow and lower the spacecraft into its final science orbit - began on 15 March, and will take most of a year, following a cautious ‘slow-as-you-go’ strategy.
As with Goldilocks and the famous bears, staying too high won't drag on TGO sufficiently to reach its intended orbit anytime soon, while dipping too low into the atmosphere could slow it too much, with unwanted results.
Therefore, the flight dynamics team carefully assess the results of every aerobraking orbit, and make detailed predictions on the subsequent orbits based on realtime results. This means there is a lot of data to keep up with.
They have, of course, many sophisticated tools, applications and databases available to help determine orbits, visualise trajectories and calculate future spacecraft manoeuvres.
"But the white board in our briefing room is the best tool we've found for giving everyone an up-to-the-date, realtime view of aerobraking progress during our frequent review meetings," says ESA's Robert Guilanyà, seen above, the TGO flight dynamics team lead.
"A large group of people need to see and discuss the data collected from the atmospheric passages to plan subsequent aerobraking activities. Marking up the white board by hand is simple, easy and instantly viewable by all."
From 25 June to end-August, aerobraking is on pause due to Mars and Earth lining up on opposite sides of the Sun in a conjunction that greatly reduces the reliability and robustness of communication to and from the spacecraft.
Aerobraking will resume in August, and should continue until early 2018, when TGO will perform a series of final manoeuvres to transition to its approximately 400-km high, circular science orbit.
Credit: ESA
Model : Angela Ong
Taken by : Kweong
Location : Taiping Lake Garden
Just tired for editing and due to disappointed on Canon because this morning I just knew Nikon increase lens price last 2 months and I want to buy 24-70L but atfer I call to the store take an order he told me the lens was increase by USD 200..... because after I walk out from the Canon Singapore fax a notice to them. No more old stock from him... I just saw in their lens display cabinet... and he told me yesterday just sold 2 lenses. I tell myself don't buy Canon lens anymore for this coming 2 years. 5D MK II also increase another USD 100. What I have to do now? Go for film!!!
EOS 650 + EF 28mm f/1.8
Model : Angela
Taken by : Kweong
Location : Taiping Lake Garden
End of this series.
Photo Video : Coming soon.
Kind of a Sketch painting, using the Topaz Simplify plug-in filter in PS. So many different adjustments, I must have spent an hour on this, and am not sure I even got what I wanted. But it is unique. And I love tie Fall Colors in the image. I took this, looking up Woodmere Knoll, which is right down the street from where I live and grew up. I like the wide angle lens used as well.
October 21, 2014 - PENTAX K-x- smc PENTAX-DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL - / 1-23-49 p.m. / - 1/200 sec at ƒ/4.5 - ISO 100 - Normal- 18 mm - (27 mm).
321/365 Days Project.
“Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.” Joshua Becker, Simplify
I remember a time when I shot bright, pastel coloured images. Super narrow depth of field and with long lenses. Style evolves as we discover more about ourselves through our work. The understanding that how we photograph is more about use than our actual subject comes and everything changes.
I'm happier now with one camera a 35mm lens and my subject. The simpler the shoot the more at home I feel. For me simplification is amplification.
Shot with the most basic of camera.
"Live simply that others might simply live." ~Elizabeth Ann Seton
Have a great Friday....and thanks for all your visits!!!! Will catch up soon :-)
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