Gimli Glider - Flight 143, ran out of fuel at 40,000 feet over northern Canada and had to make a gliding landing at a former airbase at Gimli, Manitoba. The story starts in a somewhat amusing fashion, an argument over metric conversion. Normally a 767 is fueled almost completely automatically using a device known as the Fuel Quantity Information System Processor, which runs all of the internal pumps and reports to the pilots on the status of the fuel load. However Flight 143's FQIS was not working properly, a problem later traced to a bad solder joint in the capacitance gauges in the fuel tanks. The fuel load was instead measured with a dripstick, a sort of dipstick for planes, giving the total volume of fuel in the tanks. The problem occurred when it.
Hughes Aircraft - co-located with Hughes Tool Company on an aircraft landing strip next to Ballona Creek, in Culver City, near the Pacific Ocean in Southern California. Hughes Aircraft, Douglas Aircraft, North American Aviation, Northrop, Lockheed Aircraft were among the complex of companies in the aerospace industry which flourished in Southern California during and after World War II. At one time, Hughes was the largest employer in Southern California. Divisions of the company were sold off one-by-one during the 1970s and 80s, and today most of the companies no longer exist under the Hughes name. The grounds of the old Hughes companies are currently occupied by SKG Dreamworks, a movie company. Hughes Aircraft was first set up as a subsidiary of Hughes Tool Company, then known as Toolco. In 1935 Hughes built the H-1.
Crop circle - began appearing in England in the late 1970s. One theory is that crop circles are created by flying saucers landing in a farmer's field and flattening a neat circle of the crop—however the increasing complexity of formations makes this theory less likely. Others hypothesise that these formations are sniggles or hoaxes engineered by humans. While some farmers view them as vandalism others gain revenue from charging viewers. People who study crop circle phenomenon call themselves "cerealogists". Many crop circles have fine intricate detail, regular symmetry and careful composition. Early examples of this phenomenon were usually simple circular patterns of various sizes, which led some people to speculate that it was a natural phenomenon, but in recent years complex geometric patterns have emerged. A popular explanation is that they are either formed.
USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37) - States on 11 December. On 6 January 1942, Tuscaloosa stood out of Hvalfjordur in company with Wichita and two destroyers - Grayson (DD-435) and Meredith (DD-434) - for a training cruise to the Denmark Strait. After returning to port three days later, the heavy cruiser moved on to Boston for a navy yard overhaul from 8 to 20 February. She conducted refresher training out of Casco Bay and then underwent another brief refit at New York before joining Task Group (TG) 39.1, under the command of Rear Admiral John W. Wilcox, Jr, whose flag flew in Washington (BB-56). The task group sortied from Casco Bay and struggled through gale-whipped seas, bound for Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands - the British Home Fleet's base. On 27 March, Rear Admiral Wilcox apparently.
USS Lexington (CV-16) - cargo ship, damaged two cruisers, and accounted for 30 enemy aircraft. Her gunners splashed two of the enemy torpedo planes that attacked at midday, and opened fire ag ain at 1920 that night when a mayor air attack began. At 2322 parachute flares silhouetted the carrier, and 10 minutes later she was hit by a torpedo to starboard, knocking out her steering gear. Settling 5 feet by the stern, the carrier began circling to port amidst dense clouds of smoke pouring from ruptured tanks aft. An emergency hand-operated steering unit was quickly devised, and Lexington made Pearl Harbor for emergency repairs, arriving 9 December. She reached Bremerton, Wash., 22 December for full repairs completed 20 February 1944. Lexington sailed via Alameda, Calif., and Pearl Harbor for Majuro, where Rear Adm. Marc.
A-10 Thunderbolt II - time and operate under 1,000-foot ceilings (303.3 meters) with 1.5-mile (2.4 kilometers) visibility. Their wide combat radius and short takeoff and landing capability permit operations in and out of locations near front lines. Using night vision goggles, A-10/OA-10 pilots can conduct their missions during darkness. Thunderbolt IIs have Night Vision Imaging Systems (NVIS), goggle compatible single-seat cockpits forward of their wings and a large bubble canopy which provides pilots all-around vision. The pilots are protected by 900 pounds of titanium armor (referred to as a "titanium bathtub") that also protects parts of the flight-control system. The redundant primary structural sections allow the aircraft to enjoy better survivability during close air support than did previous aircraft. The aircraft can survive direct hits from armor-piercing and high explosive projectiles up to 23mm. Their.
B-47 Stratojet - work by Boeing aerodynamicist Vic Ganzer led to an optimum sweepback of 35 degrees. Boeing modified the Model 432 design with a swept wings and tail, resulting in the Model 448, which was presented to the USAAF in September 1947. The Model 448 retained the four TG-180 engines in the forward fuselage and, at the instigation of project manager George Martin, added two more TG-180s buried in the rear fuselage to provide greater range and performance. Boeing submitted the Model 448 to the USAAF, only to have it rejected immediately. The Air Force strongly disliked fitting the engines in the fuselage, since that made engine fire or disintegration catastrophic. The engines would have to be moved back out on the wings. That led straight back to the drag problem, but the.
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Jumpstart 3rd-6th Grade - will award the user of Invention Points/a Mission Clue. Art Gallery The Art Gallery is the only room with more than one game. The Virtual Collection and the painting gallery. In the Virtual Collection, the user tries to find the work of art that matchs Polly's clue. The art is organized into categories, three works in each category. To change the category one clicks the lever. If the user wants to find out more about a work of art they click on it and Mrs. Beasley(the "resident art expert") tells them more. To see the work of art on the digital display they click it again. If it matchs Polly's clue, then Polly will present the user with another challenge as "lucky guess don't count" according to Polly's Book of Rules..
IAR 80 - the fuselage to a point about 1/3rd along the span, where oversized ailerons start and run out to the rounded caps on the wingtips. Other details: The canopy is a bubble type, very similar to the F4U or Malcom hook with the center "bubble" sliding to the rear. The radial engine and wing are near the front of the plane but the cockpit is seemingly far to the rear, over 1/2 of the way back from the front of the plane. Tail-dragger landing gear were used, with the main gear wide-set and retracting inward, and the tail "gear" being a simple skid that did not retract. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Background 2 Development history 3 Prototypes 4 IAR.80 5 IAR.80A 6 IAR.81 7 IAR.80B 8 IAR.81A 9 IAR.81B 10 IAR.81C.
Hells Canyon - that grew on the island surfaces. The resulting canyon, roughly ten miles across, is not as dramatic as the Grand Canyon. However, when the surrounding peaks are visible from the river, the sense of depth is tremendous. The adjacent ridges average 5,500' above the river. He Devil Mountain, tallest of the Seven Devils (9,393') towers almost 8,000' above the river, creating the deepest gorge in the United States. The canyon plunges 7,913 feet (over 1-1/2 miles) from its summit to the mouth of Granite Creek, 6 miles away, at 1,480 feet. The river is as big as the landscape. Below Hells Canyon Dam, the Snake usually carries more water than the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Below the confluence with the Salmon River, flows average 35,000 cfs and often peak.
Heinkel He 112 - 19,500ft) which it could maintain for 20 minutes, while staying in the air for a total of 90 minutes. It also needed to be armed with at least three machine guns with 1000 rounds each, or one 20mm cannon with 200 rounds. One other interesting specification was that the plane needed to keep wing loading below 100kg/m$sup2; which is a way of defining the plane's ability to turn and climb. The priorities for the plane were level speed, climb speed, and then maneuverability (in that order). In October 1933 Hermann Göring sent out a letter requesting aircraft companies consider the design of a "high speed courier aircraft" – a thinly veiled request for a new fighter. In May 1934 this request was made official and the Technisches Amt sent out a.
Fleeming Jenkin - steamer; and, meeting with 600 fathoms of water when twenty- five miles from land, the cable ran out so fast that a tangled skein came up out of the hold, and the line had to be severed. Having only 150 miles on board to span the whole distance of 140 miles, he grappled the lost cable near the shore, raised it, and 'under-run' or passed it over the ship, for some twenty miles, then cut it, leaving the seaward end on the bottom. He then spliced the ship's cable to the shoreward end and resumed paying-out; but after seventy miles in all were laid, another rapid rush of cable took place, and Brett was obliged to cut and abandon the line. Another attempt was made the following year, but with no.
Four Quartets - hope (from Romans 4:18) and hence going through the dark night of the soul; here Eliot quotes almost literally St. John of the Cross' Subida del Monte Carmelo: To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy [...] [...] the quote goes on for some ten verses [...] And where you are is where you are not. This idea, especially the several paradoxes and their oriental imagery (typical of St. John of the Cross) made a deep impression in the poet (who read the Spanish poet's works several times and had quoted him already in the opening page of Sweeney Agonistes). After the night of the soul, or maybe because of the detachment the soul has achieved,.
Elfquest - creatures of folklore, but actually highly advanced alien beings who intended to explore the planet in search of others of their kind during the planet's medieval time period and assumed the form of the creatures for that purpose. However, a mishap disrupted the controls of their vessel and made them make a forced landing far earlier in time, in the caveman period. The inability to communicate quickly caused a catastrophic misunderstanding that brought on a massacre of the aliens and drove the survivors from their palace-shaped vessel. The main story takes place centuries later where the elves and other beings have adapted with great difficulty to their home. The main characters are the wolfriders, a tribe of elves who became the rough equivalent of the Iroquois Native American nation of ferocious.
USS Barbero (SS-317) - credited with sinking three Japanese merchant ships totaling 9126 tons while patrolling in the Java and South China Seas. On 27 December 1944, enroute to Fremantle, Australia, Barbero, while at periscope depth, received an aerial bomb close aboard aft. This near miss damaged the port reduction gear and put her out of action for the remainder of the war. In September 1945 she was ordered to Mare Island Naval Shipyard where she underwent pre-inactivation overhaul and was placed in commission in reserve 25 April 1946. Barbero received two battle stars for her World War II service. Post War Service Following conversion to a cargo submarine at Mare Island, Barbero was recommissioned, her hull classification symbol changed to SSA-317, and assigned to the Pacific Fleet on 31 March 1948. Between October 1948.
USS Texas (BB-35) - Naval Academy midshipmen embarked. That fall, she conducted maneuvers as a unit of the Scouting Fleet. In 1925, she entered the Norfolk Navy Yard for a major modernization overhaul during which her cage masts were replaced with a single tripod foremast. She also received the very latest in fire control equipment. Following that overhaul, she resumed duty along the eastern seaboard and kept at that task until late in 1927 when she did a brief tour of duty in the Pacific between late September and early December. Near the end of the year, Texas returned to the Atlantic and resumed normal duty with the Scouting Fleet. In January 1928, she transported President Herbert Hoover to Havana, Cuba, for the Pan-American conference and then continued on via the Panama Canal and the.
USS Utah (BB-31) - on 5 January. After stopping at Hampton Roads, she reached Cuban waters later in the month for torpedo and small arms exercises. However, due to tension in Mexico, Utah sailed for Mexican waters in early February and reached Vera Cruz on 16 February. She operated off that port until getting underway for Tampico on 9 April with several hundred refugees embarked. Soon thereafter, it was learned that a German steamship, SS Ypiranga, was bound for Vera Cruz with a shipment of arms and munitions earmarked for the dictator Victoriano Huerta. Utah received orders to search for the ship, put to sea and reached Vera Cruz on 16 April. When it appeared that the shipment might be landed, the Navy took steps to take the customs house at Vera Cruz and stop.
USS North Carolina (BB-55) - the Caribbean prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, and after intensive war exercises, entered the Pacific 10 June 1942. North Carolina and the Navy began the long island-hopping campaign for victor over the Japanese by landing Marines on Guadalcanal and Tulagi 7 August 1942. After screening Enterprise (CV-6) in the Air Support Force for the invasion, North Carolina guarded the carrier during operations protecting supply and communication lines southeast of the Solomons. Enemy carriers were located 24 August, and the Battle of the Eastern Solomons erupted. The Americans struck first, sinking carrier Ryujo; Japanese retaliation came as bombers and torpedo planes, covered by fighters, roared in on Enterprise and North Carolina. In an 8-minute action, North Carolina shot down between 7 and 14 enemy aircraft, her gunners standing to their guns.
USS Shangri-La (CV-38) - 27th. On the following day, Shangri-La's aircraft damaged cruiser Oyoda, and battleship [[Japanese battleship HarunaHaruna, the latter so badly that she beached and flooded. She later had to be abandoned. They pummeled Tokyo again on 30 July, then cleared the area to replenish on 31 July and 1 August. Shangri-La spent the next four days in the retirement area waiting for a typhoon to pass. On 9 August, after heavy fog had caused the cancellation of the previous day's missions, the carrier sent her planes aloft to bomb Honshu and Hokkaido once again. The next day, they raided Tokyo and central Honshu, then retired from the area for logistics. She evaded another typhoon on 11 and 12 August, then hit Tokyo again on the 13th. After replenishing on the 14th, she.
