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Went to out for NS 4005, and ended up with this shot at Oreapolis, Nebraska instead. Hey I’ll take it
After a successful night capturing Jaws with his big appetite carrying off supplies to the veg patch it was revealed what was going on when I went out to collect in the camera kit. There was a cub running around.
Anyway thought this was great news and set up my cctv "fox cam" in the drive with some badger & fox nuts spread around to see what took place in the night.
Well I was wrong there was not one fox cub.
There are actually three !! But how and if I will be able to photograph them in the same way as the other images will be a challenge.
Also a first I went with with 50mm focal length and shortest distance yet of 1.6 metre focal length approx. Might change the lens from the Nikon 24-70mm for my 50mm prime.
Camera info:-
Nikon D750 at 1.6 metres from subject {on manual}
Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 @ f/6.3,
ISO 1600,
Shutter 1/200,
Focal length 50 mm.
Camera shutter triggered by very long cable release.
Nikon SB900 flash lights, Yongnuo 602's to fire Nikon strobes.
A. Nikon SB900 flash light "A" bare head, 4 metres at 45 degrees to the left of shed, on 1/64 power about 2 metres high on light stand to light shed.
B. Nikon SB 900 "B" key light, on the right at 0.8 metre high, 2.3 metres from subject and at 50 degrees on 1/32 power with a fine grid on front.
C. Nikon SB900 "C" fill light on the left at 45 degrees to fill in light - low setting of 1/64 power, fine grid on front, on manual.
Among the many successful businesses in Eudunda was Wiesner and Company, timber and hardware merchant. Their impressive warehouse and store still remains in the town.
The Wiesner family started a blacksmith and foundry business in Eudunda in 1884 which eventually employed 50 people. In 1905 they sold that business and opened the iron mongers and furniture store in large two storey premises to which they added. It became the largest hardware and furniture store outside of Adelaide. It sold everything from pianos, china, glassware and silver cutlery to iron, nails, tools and timber and sewing machines.
Johannes Wiesner and his son Adolph ran the business until it was sold in 1951 but they had downsized it in 1945 when they sold part of the warehouse to the Masonic Lodge.
Interestingly Adolph married an English girl Mary Cranston and he became a Methodist and his grandson became a Methodist Minister. [Ref: A Future Unlived]
Eudunda is a quiet town in the Mid North of South Australia.
Notably it is an historic German settlement.
Eudunda came into existence as an important watering hole for cattle and horses which were being overlanded to South Australia from western Queensland in the late 19th century. Their destination was Kapunda, at that time effectively owned by Sir Sidney Kidman.
Eudunda was the birthplace of the educationalist and novelist Colin Thiele who achieved fame with his hugely successful books, Storm Boy, Blue Fin and Sun On The Stubble.
Thiele’s presence is evidenced by the silhouette of one of his characters, ‘Gustav” and his kelpie dog.
Engineers successfully fired a 2-foot-diameter, subscale solid rocket booster June 1, 2022, at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The test, conducted in Marshall’s East Test Area, produced 92,000 pounds of thrust and was done as part of the booster obsolescence and life extension (BOLE) program, providing an upgraded booster design for the evolved configuration of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for Artemis IX and beyond. The BOLE booster will be a larger and more powerful solid rocket motor to make the SLS rocket capable of sending heavier payloads to the Moon and beyond.
Image Credit: NASA/Samuel Lott
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successful solo slut walks through the tenderloin with wardrobe & camera malfunctions to boot
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has successfully passed the center of curvature test, an important optical measurement of Webb’s fully assembled primary mirror prior to cryogenic testing, and the last test held at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, before the spacecraft is shipped to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for more testing.
After undergoing rigorous environmental tests simulating the stresses of its rocket launch, the Webb telescope team at Goddard analyzed the results from this critical optical test and compared it to the pre-test measurements. The team concluded that the mirrors passed the test with the optical system unscathed.
“The Webb telescope is about to embark on its next step in reaching the stars as it has successfully completed its integration and testing at Goddard. It has taken a tremendous team of talented individuals to get to this point from all across NASA, our industry and international partners, and academia,” said Bill Ochs, NASA’s Webb telescope project manager. “It is also a sad time as we say goodbye to the Webb Telescope at Goddard, but are excited to begin cryogenic testing at Johnson.”
Rocket launches create high levels of vibration and noise that rattle spacecraft and telescopes. At Goddard, engineers tested the Webb telescope in vibration and acoustics test facilities that simulate the launch environment to ensure that functionality is not impaired by the rigorous ride on a rocket into space.
Before and after these environmental tests took place, optical engineers set up an interferometer, the main device used to measure the shape of the Webb telescope’s mirror. An interferometer gets its name from the process of recording and measuring the ripple patterns that result when different beams of light mix and their waves combine or “interfere.”
Waves of visible light are less than a thousandth of a millimeter long and optics on the Webb telescope need to be shaped and aligned even more accurately than that to work correctly. Making measurements of the mirror shape and position by lasers prevents physical contact and damage (scratches to the mirror). So, scientists use wavelengths of light to make tiny measurements. By measuring light reflected off the optics using an interferometer, they are able to measure extremely small changes in shape or position that may occur after exposing the mirror to a simulated launch or temperatures that simulate the subfreezing environment of space.
During a test conducted by a team from Goddard, Ball Aerospace of Boulder, Colorado, and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, temperature and humidity conditions in the clean room were kept incredibly stable to minimize fluctuations in the sensitive optical measurements over time. Even so, tiny vibrations are ever-present in the clean room that cause jitter during measurements, so the interferometer is a “high-speed” one, taking 5,000 “frames” every second, which is a faster rate than the background vibrations themselves. This allows engineers to subtract out jitter and get good, clean results on any changes to the mirror's shape.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/Chris Gunn
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Completes Goddard Testing
Still experimenting, I took the 7D2 and 400mm lens to the Cedar Lake Osprey Nest. (Iowa DNR actually let me name it, since I was the one who documented it.)
Sometimes there is action at the nest, often not. From a distance I could see two heads sticking out above the nest, which is atop a 140' cell tower sitting on high ground. That was enough to keep me approaching.
There was nothing happening, and of course no angle into the nest, but I was sure that patience would be a virtue in this case. I parked myself a ways away, sat down, and waited. After perhaps ten minutes, I saw wings open, and fired off some shots at the nest. Soon, one of the Osprey took off and flew towards the river. I was sure it would return, so remained in place.
After another wait, it did fly back, fish in talons. Snapped off some shots as it approached and then entered the nest. Nothing else happened.
Checking the photos afterwards, I discovered that this Osprey male hunter had a very special pre-hunt routine, which took place only a minute before he launched. The top comment box documents that behavior...surprising one indeed.
Unfortunately, this outing further convinces me that I'm no longer able to handhold a long lens which lacks any stabilization. I can get the shot with a fast shutter speed, but not the sharpness. A different lens is needed, or some way to haul a tripod to places like this. )o;
Already a successful businessman in Chimayo, E. D. Trujillo began developing his Espanola location after purchasing a triangle of land from Anastacio Maestas of Santa Cruz in
October 1925. This was part of a larger tract that Petra Buquet of Santa Fe had sold Maestas the previous March when it was described as pasture land extending west to the Rio Grande and south to the Santa Cruz River (Abstract of Title, E. D. Trujillo Papers). There was as yet little commercial development in the area known as Riverside, which was across the Rio Grande from Espanola proper—the railroad town that ended at the Rio Grande bridge. The land Trujillo
purchased contained only an arroyo (wash) that needed to be filled in to permit development (Trujillo, interview 24 October 1998). However, Trujillo chose his new location carefully,
placing his new business strategically at the junction of main roads between Santa Fe and Taos.
A successful venture for a Jumping Spider (Salticidae sp.) hauling a fat caterpillar up for supper.
It was no easy feat; the caterpillar was not giving up life for free and it fought hard to escape. But these incredible little hunters don't throw things back. Eventually the caterpillar gave up the fight and the spider enjoyed its supper.
The comment fields show other scenes from this epic battle.
...on the food swing.
Western Jackdaws☻ (Corvus monedula) ☻ Dohle
Erfolgreiche Landung ...
... auf der Futterschaukel.
This large masonry building was erected in 1895 as the principal offices and warehouse for Burns, Philp & Company Ltd, one of North Queensland's most successful trading enterprises.
The firm was founded in Townsville in 1873, when James Burns established a general retail business in Flinders Street. Robert Philp (later Sir Robert, KCMG and twice Queensland premier) acquired a share in the business in 1876. Due to ill health, Burns returned to Sydney in 1877, leaving Philp to manage the Townsville store.
In the late 1870s and early 1880s, Burns and Philp individually established trading networks in North Queensland, which were amalgamated as Burns, Philp & Company Ltd in 1883. By 1887 the company had disposed of their retail concerns, concentrating on the importation and wholesaling of general merchandise, and general shipping and insurance, with branches in London, Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns, Thursday Island, Normanton, Charters Towers, Cooktown, and New Guinea. The firm was employing 300 persons, owned their own fleet of small trading vessels, and was pioneering trade, communications and exploration throughout North Queensland, New Guinea, and the South Pacific. The company also had interests in North Queensland sugar, gold, and pastoralism. Although Robert Philp was bankrupted in the 1890s and resigned his interests in the firm in 1893, the name of Burns, Philp & Company Ltd was retained.
In Townsville, Burns, Philp & Company Ltd had acquired approximately 200 metres of Ross Creek frontage, on which they erected wharves and warehouses, with their offices in an old building which had been erected in the 1860s for Robert Towns and John Melton Black, the founders of Townsville. By 1895, Burns, Philp & Company Ltd dominated trade in Townsville, and their importance to this town and to North Queensland in general was illustrated in the erection of substantial new premises.
The new building was erected in nine months by contractor GS Gordon, and was opened on the 12th of November 1895. It was designed by Sydney architects the McCredie Brothers. Claude Chambers, in partnership with the McCredies from 1889 - 1893, supervised the construction of this building to the design of George McCredie. Arthur McCredie designed Burns, Philp & Company Ltd's principal Sydney offices, completed in 1901 and extended in 1909.
The two-storeyed section with frontages to Wickham and Flinders Streets housed the main offices: the shipping department on the ground floor and the manager's office and cashiers' and correspondence department on the upper floor. There was also a strong room and lavatory at each level. The three-storeyed section fronting Flinders Street was mainly warehousing, although the merchandise department, and behind this, the spirit room, were located on the ground floor adjacent to the shipping office, and accessed from this office via a door beneath the front staircase.
The building was designed for expansion. The walls, including the north-western end wall of the warehouse, were constructed with bricked-in arches to facilitate later extensions. In 1903 the company planned a three-storeyed brick extension to the warehouse along Flinders Street; this scheme was not carried out, but in 1913 - 1914 a long, single-storeyed, concrete warehouse extension was erected (no longer extant).
In 1922, the company's architect in Townsville, Walter Hunt, designed alterations to the offices and ground floor of the warehouse, extending the office area. These were carried out in three stages during 1922 and 1923. At this period, the arches separating the shipping and merchandising departments were exposed, and the large arched doorway from Flinders Street into the warehouse was bricked in, and three windows were placed in the bay.
On the 22nd of January 1949, fire gutted two floors of the hardware section of the building, causing substantial damage to the interior of the warehouse, including the collapse of the first floor. The roof and floors were replaced.
Burns, Philp & Company Ltd retained the building until 1977. At this stage the two-storeyed section was converted into a night club, a doorway was cut in the second end bay of the former warehouse, and the latter was converted to office accommodation. The building (including the former office accommodation) has largely been used as an entertainment venue since its initial conversion, with the property transferred to new owners in 2021.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
The first "successful" shoot with both boys - as in, both dogs are reasonably in focus and mostly in the picture.
The biggest difference between today there being a picture and Thursday there wasn't is that today Henry stayed.
Eventually.
It did take a few tries, which is why everything is shifted a bit to the right - I didn't get Henry back in exactly the same spot and I didn't take the time (and risk Henry moving) to recenter the camera.
Toby is still a work in progress, and is "managed" more than cued.
He knows that he needs to sit to get the Kibbles, but the fact I have a whole 1/4c scoop of Kibbles at hand (instead of just a Kibble or two) seems to be more distraction than he can stand at this point.
Next time I will switch to the training fanny pack (worn forward) and "hide" the Kibbles in there and see if that doesn't help.
Baby steps... or is that Puppy steps?
Henry is being a great Great Uncle, and Toby is as sweet as can be.
FWIW: I think Henry heard a noise in the house, which is why his ears are forward and he's gaze is a bit off - but I'll take it!
Our Daily Challenge - September 8, 2018 - "I'm A Winner"
Toby holding a sit?
Henry holding a stay?
Me getting two dogs in the picture?
Me HAVING two dogs to put in the picture?
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a week or so ago I posted The female humming bird incubating some eggs on this nest.... Looks like a success. I would have loved to see mom feeding the babies but I didn't want to hang around too much.
It was here, just south of Frankfurt, that Deutsche Luftschifffahrt AG established its main airport in 1934, having moved there from Lake Constance. The altitude at Zeppelinheim is 300 metres lower than at Manzell, and for an airship, increased air density means more payload.
This fine little museum commemorates the bygone era of the Zeppelin airships. On display are models, artefacts and information material from the times when the Zeppelins majestically plied the skies.
LZ-127 "Graf Zeppelin", launched in 1928, was far and away the sleekest, most elegant and most successful airship ever. It covered a distance of 1.7 million km in 590 flights, carrying a total of 34,000 passengers, without an accident.
Shot with:
Zeiss Ikon Contarex Professional (built between 1966 and 1967)
Carl Zeiss Sonnar 1:2 85mm Contarex Mount
Film: Fujifilm Superia X-Tra 400 colour negative film
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
Photo of the Painted Hills captured via Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor-X 24-50mm F/4 lens and the bracketing method of photography. Near the Observation Point. John Day Fossil Beds National Monument: Painted Hills Section (managed by the National Park Services). John Day/Clarno Uplands Area. Blue Mountains Region. Wheeler County, Oregon. Early April 2017.
Exposure Time: 1/320 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: +1 / -1
“Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”
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1. Like it or not, we are ALL sinners: As the Scriptures say, “No one is righteous—not even one. No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God. All have turned away; all have become useless. No one does good, not a single one.” (Romans 3:10-12 NLT)
2. The punishment for sin is death: When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. (Romans 5:12 NLT)
3. Jesus is our only hope: But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. (Romans 5:8 NLT) For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23 NLT)
4. SALVATION is by GRACE through FAITH in JESUS: God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. (Ephesians 2:8-10 NLT)
5. Accept Jesus and receive eternal life: If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (Romans 10:9 NLT) But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. (John 1:12 NLT) And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life. (1 John 5:11-12 NLT)
Read the Bible for yourself. Allow the Lord to speak to you through his Word. YOUR ETERNITY IS AT STAKE!
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After a successful launch on Feb. 15, six NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations continue their journey to the Moon aboard Intuitive Machines’ lander named Odysseus. The company confirmed communications contact with its mission operations control in Houston, and its lander continues to perform as expected.
Known as IM-1, Intuitive Machines successfully transmitted its first images back to Earth on Feb. 16. These were captured shortly after separation from SpaceX’s second stage, on Intuitive Machines’ first journey to the Moon as part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative and Artemis campaign.
All powered NASA science instruments on board the Intuitive Machines Odysseus lander have completed their transit checkouts, received data, and are operating as expected, including LN-1 (Lunar Node 1). LN-1 has made three successful passes with NASA’s Deep Space Network, establishing real-time communications with ground stations on Earth. The anticipated landing time is now 4:24 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 22.
This image is a view of Earth captured by a 186-degree wide field of view camera aboard Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar. The start of this image sequence occurred 100 seconds after separation and lasts for two hours.
Credit: Intuitive Machines
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NASA engineers successfully conducted the second in a series of RS-25 flight controller tests on May 23, 2017, stepping closer to deep-space exploration with the world’s most-powerful rocket. The test was set after a facility issue, subsequently resolved, forced rescheduling of a May 16 hot fire. The 500-second – more than eight full minutes – test on the A-1 Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi marked another milestone toward launch of NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on its inaugural flight, known as Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1). The SLS rocket, powered by four RS-25 engines firing simultaneously, will provide 2 million pounds of thrust and work in conjunction with a pair of solid rocket boosters.
Image credit: NASA
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The Nikon F was enormously successful and showed the superiority of the SLR and of the Japanese camera manufacturers. It was the first SLR system to be adopted and used seriously by the general population of professional photographers, especially by those photographers covering the Vietnam War, and those news photographers using motor-driven Nikon Fs with 250-exposure backs to record the various launches of the space capsules in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space programs, all in the 1960s. After the introduction of the Nikon F the more expensive rangefinder cameras (those with focal plane shutters) became less attractive. It was originally priced at US$186 with 50 mm f/2 lens; in November 1963 the US price was $233 for the body with a standard prism plus $90 for the 50 mm f/2 lens or $155 for the 50 mm f/1.4.
A combination of design elements made the Nikon F successful. It had interchangeable prisms and focusing screens; the camera had a depth-of-field preview button; the mirror had lock-up capability; it had a large bayonet mount and a large lens release button; a single-stroke ratcheted film advance lever; a titanium-foil focal plane shutter; various types of flash synchronization; a rapid rewind lever; a fully removable back. It was well-made, durable, and adhered closely to the successful design scheme of the Nikon rangefinder cameras.
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While I was taking pictures of this jumping spider, a fly had the bad idea to land nearby. The spider approached it swiftly, froze, then suddenly jumped on the naive insect and catched it in an admirable manner. Here is a picture of the agile hunter enjoying its prey.
"The S800 is a sports car from Honda. Introduced at the 1965 Tokyo Motor Show, the S800 would replace the successful Honda S600 as the company's image car and would compete with the Austin-Healey Sprite, MG Midget, Triumph Spitfire and Fiat 850 Spider.
Like the S600, it was available as either a coupe or roadster and continued the advanced technology of its predecessors. The 791 cc straight-4 engine produced 70 hp (52 kW) at 8000 rpm, thus making this Honda's first 100 mph (160 km/h) automobile, but still allowing for 35 mpg (6.7 L/100 km). In April 1967 the car was described as the fastest production 1-litre car in the world thanks to its high revving engine (up to 10,000 rpm) and the manufacturer's history of manufacturing powerful relatively low capacity motor-cycle engines.
Early examples continued to use the chain drive and independent suspension in the rear. 752 roadsters and 242 coupés were then produced. After that Honda switched to a conventional drive-shaft, live axle rear end with four radius rods and a Panhard rod. 604 roadsters and 69 coupes were built with this setup before disc brakes replaced the front drums.
In 1967, the S800 became available in Britain. By this time the model had the more conventional drive layout as stated above, with predictable handling and a firm ride. It was also cheaper than the Mini Cooper and Triumph Spitfire, in Britain.
In February 1968, the S800M (aka S800MK2) was introduced with flush mounted interior door handles, side marker lights outside, dual-circuit brakes, lean burn carburetion under the bonnet and safety glass. These changes were made for the American market, but the car was never exported there officially. Production ended in May 1970 with 11,536 S800s produced. Honda did not manufacture another S roadster for nearly thirty years until the release of the S2000 for the 2000 model year." - info from Wikipedia.
"The idea of founding AutobauAG came to the enthusiast and racing car driver Fredy Lienhard through a key experience. He guided the children of an elementary class to see his private car collection and saw the enthusiasm and joy of the children. From this experience, Fredy Lienhard has developed the idea of making her collection a museum open to the public. The renovated, high-quality plant - the old tanks factory - offers an exciting historical backdrop.
Visitors can safely approach the cars, and under the supervision of the guides, are allowed to enter many of the cars on display, taking pictures and looking under the bonnets. The museum is constantly evolving, includes over 100 vehicles, in addition to the special collection dedicated to the Sauber Formula1.
Fredy Lienhard, well-known and appreciated in the racing world, founded in 1968 Lista Racing racing in many categories (Formula 2, Can-Am, IMSA, 24 Hours of Daytona, etc) active until 2008.
His company LISTA produces drawer systems and other furnishing components for offices and mechanical workshops, and nowadays almost all car manufacturers use these equipment, including the various Formula 1 stables such as Ferrari, McLaren and Sauber." - info from Automotive Museums.
During the summer of 2018 I went on my first ever cycling tour. On my own I cycled from Strasbourg, France to Geneva, Switzerland passing through the major cities of Switzerland. In total I cycled 1,185 km over the course of 16 days and took more than 8,000 photos.
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The Avro Lancaster is the most famous and successful RAF heavy bomber of World War II A total of 7,377 were built between 1941 and early 1946. Of these, some 3,500 were lost on operations and another 200 or so were destroyed or written off in crashes.
The performance of the Lancaster was simply outstanding. It could carry a maximum bomb load of 22,000 lb, its maximum level speed with a full load at 15,000 feet was 275 mph and it could cruise routinely at altitudes above 20,000ft at a range speed of 200 mph. With a full bomb load the aircraft had a range in excess of 1,500 miles.
PA474 is one of only two Lancaster aircraft remaining in airworthy condition, the other is in Canada with the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum at Hamilton, Ontario. PA474 rolled off the production line at the Vickers Armstrong Broughton factory at Hawarden Airfield, Chester on 31 May 1945, just after the war in Europe came to an end, so she was prepared for use against the Japanese as part of the ‘Tiger Force’. However, the war in the Far East also ended before she was deployed and she did not take part in any hostilities.
After a period in storage, PA474 was converted for photo-reconnaissance work; modifications for these duties included being stripped back to a bare metal (silver) finish and the removal of all her gun turrets. She was then assigned to aerial survey duties with No 82 Squadron in East and South Africa from September 1948 until February 1952.
On return to the UK, PA474 was loaned to Flight Refuelling Ltd at Tarrant Rushton to be used as a pilotless drone, an uncertain future, which would likely have led to her loss. Fortunately, before the conversion started, the Air Ministry decided to use a Lincoln for the drone programme and PA474 was reprieved. She was then transferred to the Royal College of Aeronautics at Cranfield where she was used as a trial platform for the testing of various experimental aerofoil sections between 1954 and 1964; the trial wings being mounted vertically on the upper rear fuselage.
In 1964 PA474 was adopted by the Air Historical Branch with a view to putting the aircraft on display as a static exhibit in the proposed RAF Museum at Hendon. She was flown to Wroughton where she was painted in a camouflage paint scheme, though without squadron markings, and it was during this period that the aircraft took part in two films, ‘Operation Crossbow’ and ‘The Guns of Navarone’.
Later in 1964, she was moved to RAF Henlow and grounded in preparation for display at the RAF Museum. In 1965, Wg Cdr D’Arcy, the CO of 44 Squadron (then flying Vulcans at RAF Waddington) asked permission for PA474 to be transferred into the care of the Squadron. An inspection found that the aircraft was structurally sound so permission was granted for PA474 to make a single flight from Henlow to Waddington, which it completed in August 1965.
At Waddington a restoration programme began on the Lancaster and by 1966 work was progressing well with both the front and rear turrets in place. Permission to fly PA474 regularly was granted in 1967, whilst restoration continued.
The Lancaster joined the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight in November 1973 and restoration work on various parts of the aircraft has continued ever since. A mid-upper turret was discovered in Argentina and was brought to Britain aboard HMS Hampshire; it was fitted to PA474 in 1975. In the same year, the aircraft was adopted by the City of Lincoln, permission being granted for her to display the City’s coat of arms, which will always be displayed on PA474 regardless of what colour scheme she wears.
For a period PA474 wore the markings of Lancaster EE139 the ‘Phantom of the Ruhr’, with the aircraft’s No 100 Squadron code letters ’HW-R’ on the port side, and the 550 Squadron codes ‘BQ-B on the starboard side. EE139 was one of only 35 Lancasters that completed more than 100 operational missions – the ‘Centurions’ or ‘Ton-up Lancs’ – most were lost long before achieving such a milestone.
However, here she is seen wearing the KC-A markings of 617 Squadron and the Thumper Mk III nose art, originally painted by Flt Lt Bob Knights upon his posting to 617 Squadron. She displays the markings of bombs for operations over Germany, ice-cream cones for operations over Italy, and poppies for when she has released poppies during exhibition flights.
Seen whilst conducting a fly-past during the Shuttleworth Collection's 50th Anniversary Air Show in 2013.
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NASA successfully launched a NASA Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket carrying two space technology demonstration projects at 6:15 a.m. today.
The rocket carried the SOAREX-8 Exo-Brake Flight Test from NASA’s Ames Research Center in California and the Radial Core Heat Spreader from NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio. Preliminary analysis shows that data was received on both projects.
The payload flew to an altitude of 206 miles and impacted in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 10 minutes after launch. The payload will not be recovered.
The flight was conducted through NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate.
The next launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility is a Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket early in the morning on August 11 carrying the RockSat-X university student payload.
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