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Museum of Transport and Technology, Auckland.
Originally built as an FB.40, A52-19, at the Bankstown de Havilland Australia factory, this aircraft was modified to T.43 trainer standards and allocated the serial number A52-1053. The aircraft was accepted by the RAAF on 6th August 1946, and put into storage before being sold to New Zealand later that year for £3,000. She was given the new serial number NZ2305 and assigned to No. 75 Squadron on 1st April 1947. Seeing little service while with 75 Squadron, NZ2305 was sold to a farmer in North Island in 1952.
The rotting remains of NZ2305 were discovered by a Mosquito enthusiast, and the farmer donated it to MOTAT. The project of rebuilding NZ2305 began there, and the fuselage and wings were joined at the RNZAF Museum in Christchurch, restoration being completed in 2007.
The Mosquito was an important aircraft in RNZAF service, during WW2 and postwar. In total, 76 FB.VIs, one FB.40, four T.IIIs and four T.43s were exported to New Zealand.
In 1972, the UCADB was given the task of developing a modern armored fighting vehicle based upon Carpathian state-of-the-art domestic technologies. After many prototypes the design became production-ready in 1980, following 8 years in development. However, the project was cancelled in favor of the Krakkau II, another competitor for the Common Main Battle Tank program as the tank was too advanced for its era and it would have needed many more years to fix its flaws.
The XMBT-2000 Technology Demonstrator was a program funded by the United Carpathians to develope a tank that offered greater Lethality, Protection and Mobility with a number of advanced features. However, these features made the tank expensive and costly to operate.
Under the leadership of UCADB, the XMBT-2000 turret and its systems were developed by DunnMetal and the hull with its systems by Dürer Land Systems.
Mobility
The vehicle has a 2 stage gas turbine engine, the first stage 1000hp with a limited maximum speed of 65km/h and the second stage 1600hp for 80km/h top speed. However, the second stage is only avalaible for limited time to protect the engine as prolonged use would cause overheating and worse fuel economy. This power is coupled with a hydraulic suspension to offer great mobility in any situation. The XMBT-2000 fields an advanced suspension system, which allows for individual control of every bogie on the tracks. This allows the tank to "sit", "stand" and "kneel. "Sitting" gives the tank a lower profile and offers superior handling over roads. "Standing" gives the vehicle higher ground clearance for maneuverability over rough terrain. "Kneeling" augments the angular range in which the tank's gun barrel can elevate and depress, allowing the vehicle to fire its main gun downhill as well as engage low-flying aircraft more effectively. The suspension unit also cushions the chassis from vibrations when travelling over uneven terrain, as the bogies can be adjusted individually on-the-fly.
Lethality
It was planned for the vehicle to be equipped with DunnMetal's experimental 140 mm smoothbore gun, though this had to be abandoned when DunnMetal ceased development because the 120 mm/L65 would be more than adequate to counter prospective armored threats for the foreseeable future. The XMBT-2000 was subsequently reconfigured for the 120 mm/L65, though it is capable of mounting the 140 mm gun with minimum modifications should the need arise.
The tank is equipped with an advanced fire-control system linked to a traditional laser rangefinder and crosswind sensor. The FCS is also linked to an advanced gun stabilizer and trigger-delay mechanism to optimise accuracy while moving in uneven terrain.
Protection
Details of the composite armor of the XMBT-2000 are classified, although the frontal armor has been proven to be effective at defeating the 120 mm APFSDS rounds. Explosive Reactive Armor blocks are also present.
Stats:
XMBT-2000 (3rd generation MBT)
Armor: +2 (Slassow 3 composite armor)
Turret: Classified
Hull: Classified
Armament DunnMetal CW-120 Smoothbore L65 120mm Gun +0
Speed: 80 km/h +1
Reactive Armor: +1
Blowout Compartment: +1
Hydraulics: +1
High Maintenance: -2
Mechanically Complex: -1
Plus Size: -1
Fuel Inefficient: -1
Overheats: -1
NBC protection: +0
Advanced Optics: +0
(Low Combat Endurance with 140mm main gun)
Price: 45₪
We lived in Dubai, UAE from 1991 to 1996 and I worked at a campus of the Higher Colleges of Technology. These pictures include college functions as well as staff get togethers.
These images are directly from the scanner and rough due to the age of the photographs. Over time, I may do a bit of editing on these.
This came 1st out of 69 entries.
This shot is to credit Daniel Cheong Thru his pages I saw places in Singapore I had'nt been to before. Thank You
Text entered for the challenge : This one is in memory of, and to pay homage & respect to those who passed away in the collapse of the Minneapolis I-35W Bridge, across the Mississippi. This is a modern bridge finished in 1997. You see into a length of 260m, cast over 7 spans.
Some web snippets on Bridges and Technology; words that go together...
Bridge construction technology - In the 1950s Ulrich Finsterwalder introduced cast-in-place segmental balanced canti-lever prestressed concrete construction , and the structures built with the introduction of this technology : - ) have been labeled as the first generation of modern bridge development; e-BRIDGE Technology ; Bridge Technology; 'Smart-bridge' technology ; Construction Design Technology
Taken for the SaturdaySelf Challenge 'Technology"
Naim is a British company producing high end music streaming systems and the quite minimalist exterior hides a wealth of modern technology
While no technological masterpiece, this old egg beater is an obsolete dinosaur by today's standards - these days cakes are mostly made using electric mixers or food processors. But this old egg beater has served me well, having mixed cakes week in, week out when my family was growing up.
I could have taken a shot of the egg beater doing nothing, but thought I should whip up a 'throw it all in together and mix' type cake. The recipe called for the eggs to be beaten with some caster sugar till thick and creamy and then add the rest of the ingredients and combine. Now it's cooked, I suppose I'm going to have to eat it so my efforts aren't wasted.
Skylon is a design for a single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane by the British company Reaction Engines Limited (REL), using SABRE, a combined-cycle, air-breathing rocket propulsion system, potentially reusable for 200 flights. In paper studies, the cost per kilogram of payload carried to low Earth orbit in this way is hoped to be reduced from the current £1,108/kg (as of December 2015), including research and development, to around £650/kg, with costs expected to fall much more over time after initial expenditures have amortised. In 2004, the developer estimated the total lifetime cost of the programme to be about $12 billion.
The vehicle design is for a hydrogen-fuelled aircraft that would take off from a purpose-built runway, and accelerate to Mach 5.4 at 26 kilometres (16 mi) altitude using the atmosphere's oxygen before switching the engines to use the internal liquid oxygen (LOX) supply to take it into orbit. Once in orbit it would release its payload (of up to 15 tonnes). The vehicle will be unpiloted, but also be certified to carry passengers. All payloads could be carried in a standardised container compartment. The relatively light vehicle would then re-enter the atmosphere and land on a runway, being protected from the conditions of re-entry by a ceramic composite skin. When on the ground, it would undergo inspection and necessary maintenance. If the design goal is achieved, it should be ready to fly again within two days.
As of 2012, only a small portion of the funding required to develop and build Skylon had been secured. The research and development work on the SABRE engine design is proceeding under a small European Space Agency (ESA) grant. In January 2011, REL submitted a proposal to the British government to request additional funding for the project and in April REL announced that they had secured $350 million of further funding contingent on a test of the engine's precooler technology being successful. Testing of the key technologies was successfully completed in November 2012, allowing Skylon's design to advance to its final phase. On 16 July 2013 the British government pledged £60M to the project: this investment will provide support at a "crucial stage" to allow a full-scale prototype of the SABRE engine to be built.
If all goes to plan, the first ground-based engine tests could happen in 2019, and Skylon could be performing unmanned test flights by 2025. It could carry 15 tonnes of cargo to a 300 km equatorial orbit on each trip, and up to 11 tonnes to the International Space Station, almost 45% more than the capacity of the European Space Agency's ATV vehicle.
This is the first production vehicle and it is used as a testbed to prove the Sklyon concept.
I really enjoyed building this model. It went through multiple re-designs to get the curves and shaping just right. Those of you who play Kerbal Space Program will understand how an SSTO works but if you don't it is an aircraft with rocket engines of some time that is able to climb into orbit to launch satellites then return the entire aircraft to earth to save money.
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26th November 2022, Berlin
Hasselblad 503CW
Makro-Planar 4/120mm
Tactical military transport idea, arguably well before the C-17A that we know and love these days.
McDonnell Douglas YC-15A N15YC (72-1875) now preserved at the Edwards AFB West Gate by the Mojave Desert, California.
Only two of these beasts were produced and sadly the other one N215YC/72-1876 was scrapped at one of the Davis-Monthan yards.
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25 May 2015 Macro Mondays: technology
Almost time of those of us who live in NM to convert from heat to swamp coolers, which brought to mind a technology that's fairly old, but oh so important. The pilot light of our home's furnace.
Make a photograph that illustrates a role of technology in your life.
Hubby with e-cigarette, iPad, laptop, and chargers.
Near Future Technology is our first foray into the slightly daunting world of NFT's and just like us she's unsure of what happens next. Blockchain here we come...
Near Future Technology is available on Opensea here
Barbara was technically just a sophisticated computer program with access to an android body although her programming didn't allow her the luxury of knowing that. She also felt completely heartbroken at the demise of her tamagotchi and her programming definitely wasn't supposed to allow that either. She didn't really have a heart after all.
It was all very confusing both for her and for the scientists who were studying her. She was the first of her kind and was currently confounding all expectations. She would gaze out of the window for hours at a time and would lament at length about her deceased digital friend. How would she cope in this brave new world...
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Kind of busy... Catch up soon... Thanks for looking ... :-)
New blog: I was looking for an affordable action camera and this is it. This camera is everything I would expect it to be.
REVIEW: Sunplus SP5K Series
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The John Rylands Library in Manchester was one of the first buildings in the city to be lit with electric lights.
For Macro Mondays theme "technology". This is one of the vacuum tubes (or valves for thos on the other side of the water) in a guitar amp, taken at night so the glow of the filament can be seen.
This was a difficult one! I wanted to find something really interesting but a busy week didn’t really have time to hunt for something. This is Richmond lock and weir and the technology is the machinery to make this work. Mostly hidden in this photo but I particularly liked the shadow on the footpath and the striking clouds.
Computers and electronic technology are in the classrooms for good. Many schools have 1 to 1 initiatives that put a computing device into the hands of each student. This graphic is a challenge for teachers to move beyond the obvious and traditional uses of computers (browsing, clicking, chatting, and gaming) to inventing, designing, creating, building, sharing. Inspired by a Mitch Resnick Lifelong Kindergarten video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7rlLml5ReQ
We don't just browse, click, chat, game, we invent, we design, we create, we build, we share.
Photos from a Sunday outing to battle boredom.
New and old. This barn has weathered a lot of wind, and the turbine is now turning it into electricity.
I really like my backlit keyboard shot I did for the '5' theme an would ideally have used that shot but I challenged myself to find something different. I think this shot is ok, I still prefer the backlit keyboard but this a good as well. I do like the reflections of the green and orange lights and the overall blue hue.
PLEASE, I beg you, for once, read this. This isn’t about how I feel but how someone so close to me does. I beg of you.
Blind. Sight has no meaning, for seeing is done in place of believing. Yet I have nothing to believe in anymore so all I can do is sit and wonder. Wonder if outside of these glued eyelids is as dark as inside. It’s not scary, not like a horror movie where the dark is only the home of the things that go bump in the night. No, not the dark that makes you shake and miss the last train of sanity. No not like that at all, it’s…homey. There’s a beat, a familiar one that I used to sings along to. When I knew that the beautifully inspiring musician was none other than my heart…but we all know you took that from me. And then set it in your jar of hearts on that dusty shelf.
Shelf. I helped you build that shelf. I supplied the nails that kept it together. We painted it the colours that emerged from the light kissing the broken glass. Broken glass from the jars I had broken when you weren’t watching. I hated hearing that song…the song of those other contained hearts. I hated how they drowned out our song while we sat on the sun soaked floor. It all lead to the day you stole my heart…it was raining then. Your hands were freezing and I could feel my soul chilling. As I recall that was the day my soul caught a cold. No not just a cough of transparency or nakedness. No, this cold was cancerous and the pain was unbearable. I thought my heart would be the cure, so I climbed those shelves seeing all the scars and the love you tore from so many believers. I reached the top…you said I never would. You laughed and my fingers slipped and my foot tripped. I missed and I fell. I fell and I fell. I didn’t feel the landing…my memory seems to be like an old tattered blanket. It has holes. But I do remember thousands of crystal beautiful jars above my head…they looked like stars plastered in the sky. Until they fell too…I don’t know what happened afterwards, you told me I was blinded. Shards of crystal that once held something as pure as love left me blind.
Blind. This was it. My heart is gone but the beat still mysteriously whispers in my veins. I can feel it. I feel the pavement of this roof top caress my sore feet. I can feel the edge right under my toes. Then I feel the rain. The tear drops run down my cheeks. Although I can’t tell if they belong to me or the clouds. Suddenly I realize…someone is crying out there in the world. Why can’t the clouds hear my cries? Is it because I am heartless or because I am blind? I inhale…the wind secures my face in this embrace. Jump.
You would like that wouldn’t you? If I jumped. If I gave up. I feel you breathing on the back of my neck. I’m at my mind’s end. I’m at my strengths end. Like a battery I wasted the energy by leaving these emotions on. But I’ve learned to live half alive and this is it.
Jump.
My feet don’t move. My soul as sick as it has become begs to feel the end. But I forgot. I forget. I forgot what beauty was long before I forgot how to see. I forgot beauty the day I forgot how to beat my own heart.
We forgot how to put the light back in my eyes
Oh how we forgot.
Inspired by one of the most amazing people I have ever met.
All of these pictures were mistakes. All accidents that I grew to love. All fit this writing. And all were so perfect and meaningful to me that I almost threw my computer at the wall in frustration.
I just couldn’t choose…