omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
No. 82 Wing Training Flight RAAF. No. 82 Wing Training Flight is a Royal Australian Air Force flight which was established in January 2020 to provide training for No. 82 Wing. It is equipped with six Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornets.

History and role

Until 2015, No. 6 Squadron was the operational conversion unit responsible for preparing RAAF aircrew to operate Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft. During that year, the squadron relinquished the training role ahead of being re-equipped with Boeing EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft. RAAF Super Hornet and Growler aircrew subsequently undertook operational conversion training in the United States with United States Navy units. A flight responsible for refresher training was also established within No. 1 Squadron, the RAAF's operational F/A-18F unit.

No. 82 Wing Training Flight was established in January 2020. It forms part of a two-year trial of returning most Super Hornet operational conversation training in Australia. As part of the trial, some aircrew will be assigned to the flight after completing their initial fighter training with No. 76 Squadron. The RAAF is hopeful that the trial will lead to better outcomes than training the aircrew in the United States, including by ensuring that they are familiar with Australian operational procedures from the outset, as these are not taught by the US Navy.

Upon establishment, No. 82 Wing Training Flight was assigned six F/A-18Fs. The unit's inaugural commander also doubles as the executive officer of No. 82 Wing.

From 26 November to 9 December 2020, Exercise Gauntlet Strike was held at RAAF Base Tindal in the Northern Territory, providing the final qualification activity for operational conversion courses for aircrew trainees.

The flight remained active as of March 2023, when it conducted the periodic Exercise Crimson Dawn as the final stage of the eight month long F/A-18F conversion course. In December 2023 the Department of Defence noted that the most recent iteration of Exercise Crimson Dawn had been conducted by a unit called No. 1 Squadron Training Flight.

References

82
Military units and formations established in 2020
2020 establishments in Australia
Royal Ordnance Rocket Motors. Royal Ordnance Rocket Motors was a former division of Royal Ordnance, previously ICI, in Worcestershire that made small rocket motors for missiles.

History

Imperial Chemical Industries
The site was set up in 1951 for ICI by Sir St John Elstub CBE; he had been a bomber pilot in the Second World War, being knighted in the 1970 Birthday Honours.

The site made cast doublebase solid propellant rocket motors.

Imperial Metal Industries
The site was later run by Imperial Metal Industries (IMI), on behalf of the Ministry of Technology. The 200-acre site was later owned by the Ministry of Defence. It was a high-security site; local firemen had been prevented from attending incidents at the site.

1980 explosion
On 4 March 1980 there was an explosion at the Worcestershire site, that severely damaged local houses, making them uninhabitable. The body of one of the dead workers was thrown 40 metres from the blast, landing in the garden of one of the damaged houses. It was the first accident in 28 years of the  site.

Royal Ordnance
By the 1980s, Royal Ordnance was Europe's largest producer of ammunition.

The Propellants, Explosives and Rocket Motor Establishment, in south-west Essex, was also bought by Royal Ordnance.

Roxel
The Worcestershire site is now owned by Roxel Group, an Anglo-French company, and a main employer in Worcestershire.

Structure
It was at a site in Worcestershire. In the 1980s the site had around 600 workers, with around 560 in the 1990s. Rocket propellants were tested nearby.

Products
Missiles that it made rocket motors for include
 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS)
 SeaCat
 Swingfire
 Vickers Vigilant

The site also made solid-propellant rockets for satellites.

See also
 British Aerospace

References

External links
 Roxel Group

Companies based in Worcestershire
Imperial Chemical Industries
Rocket engine manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Science and technology in Worcestershire
Pont de l'Orignal. The pont de l’Île is a covered bridge in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada.

Among the last in Quebec, 34 covered bridges were constructed in Abitibi, and are associated with the colonisation of the region in the early 1900s. Today fewer than half of them are extant.

The single-lane bridge is of Lattice truss bridge design. This design was modified by the Quebec Ministry of Colonisation and was used for more than 500 covered bridges in Quebec.

Built in 1942, it was painted red in 1983, having been grey for many years. It was damaged by flooding in 2002. Its name, which translates as Moose Bridge, references to nearby frequent sightings of the eponymous animal. The weight capacity is five tonnes. It is the only covered bridge on a provincial highway, Quebec Route 395.

The bridge does not benefit from any provincial or municipal protection.

References

See also 

List of covered bridges in Quebec

Buildings and structures in Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Bridges completed in 1942
Covered bridges in Canada
Road bridges in Quebec
VAST Data. VAST Data is a privately held technology company focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning computing infrastructure. The company offers a data computing platform to help enterprises and cloud service providers manage and accelerate large-scale data-intensive applications.

History 
VAST Data was founded in 2016 by Renen Hallak, the former head of R&D at XtremIO (acquired in 2012 by Dell EMC), Shachar Fienblit, formerly of Kaminario, and Jeff Denworth, formerly of CTERA Networks. Mike Wing, formerly of Dell EMC, serves as company president.

In February 2019, VAST emerged from stealth mode, announcing $80 million of funding and the launch of its data storage software built on a new distributed systems architecture called DASE (Disaggregated and Shared Everything).

VAST ranked No. 5 on the 2022 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and No. 3 on the 2023 Financial Times list of The Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies.

In December 2023 VAST announced it had surpassed $1 billion in cumulative software bookings; had surpassed $200 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR); and had maintained positive cash flow for the previous 12 quarters with a gross margin of nearly 90 percent.

In 2024 VAST was included in the Forbes Cloud 100, a list of the top private cloud computing companies, and was named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for File and Object Storage Platforms.

Funding 
VAST Data has raised $381million in funding.

In December 2023 VAST announced a Series E funding round led by Fidelity Management and Research Co. that raised $118 million at a valuation of $9.1 billion.

Product 
The VAST Data Platform enables organizations to store, manage, and process large amounts of structured and unstructured data for AI and deep learning initiatives. The platform comprises several:

 VAST DataStore (formerly known as Universal Storage), an unstructured data storage solution
 VAST DataBase, a database management system (DBMS) that includes the constructs of a traditional database, data warehouse, and data lake 
 VAST DataEngine (scheduled to be generally available in 2025), a global function execution engine 
 VAST DataSpace, a global namespace that permits every location to store, retrieve, and process data
 VAST InsightEngine with NVIDIA, a real-time retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solution

The platform is deployable in on-premises data centers, public clouds, and edge environments, and is delivered as a subscription-based service.

Operations 
VAST operates globally with a strong presence in key international markets, including Japan, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. VAST is a no-headquarters company with offices in New York City; Durham, North Carolina; Campbell, California; and Yafo, Israel.

VAST partners with several systems technology vendors worldwide, including Arista, Cisco, Equinix, HPE, Lenovo, NVIDIA, and Supermicro.

References

External links 
VAST Data

Technology companies of the United States
Technology companies of Israel
Computer storage companies
Companies based in New York City
JS Ariake (DD-109). JS Ariake (DD-109) (ありあけ) is the ninth ship of s. She was commissioned on 6 March 2002.

Design
The hull design was completely renovated from first-generation DDs. In addition to increasing the size in order to reduce the underwater radiation noise, both superstructure and hull was inclined to reduce the radar cross-section. There is however no angled tripod mainmast like the one of the American  because of the heavy weather of the Sea of Japan in winter. The aft was designed like a "mini-Oranda-zaka" as with the  to avoid interference between helicopters and mooring devices. Destroyers built under the First Defense Build-up Plan, including the former , adopted a unique long forecastle style called "Oranda-zaka".

The engine arrangement is COGAG as same as Asagiri class, but a pair of engines are updated to Spey SM1C. And the remaining one pair are replaced by LM2500, same as Kongō class.

Construction and career
Ariake was laid down on 18 May 1999 at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Kobe as part of the 1997 plan and launched on 16 October 2000. Commissioned on 6 March 2002, the vessel was incorporated into the 6th Escort Corps of the 2nd Escort Corps and deployed to Sasebo.

On 13 September 2020, she departed from Sasebo base for the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia as the 37th dispatched anti-piracy action water squadron.

The ship participated in Exercise Malabar 2024 which was held from 8 to 18 October.

Gallery

Citations

References

 
 
 Saunders, Stephen. IHS Jane's Fighting Ships 2013-2014. Jane's Information Group (2003). 

2000 ships
Murasame-class destroyers (1994)
Ships built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Mark Enzer. Mark Timothy Jon Enzer, OBE, is a British engineer. He is the CTO of consultancy Mott MacDonald and former head of the National Digital Twin Programme at the Centre for Digital Built Britain.

Education
In 1987, Enzer graduated from Oxford University (Engineering Science) and in 1992 from Leeds University (Tropical Public Health Engineering). In 2004 he received MBA degree from University of Cambridge.

Career 
From November 2009 to March 2012, Enzer was engineering manager at Anglian Water's @one Alliance.

Mott MacDonald 
From April 2012 to July 2013, he was Engineering Director of Mott MacDonald's Water Division. He then served as global water sector leader until December 2016, and was appointed as chief technical officer in January 2017.

Centre for Digital Built Britain 
From April 2020 until April 2022, Enzer was head of the National Digital Twin Programme and chair of CDBB's Digital Framework Task Group.

Honours
In the 2020 Birthday Honours, Enzer was awarded OBE for his services to national infrastructure.

References

External links 
 Mark Enzer on Twitter

British chief technology officers
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Alumni of the University of Leeds
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
JS Akebono (DD-108). JS Akebono (DD-108) is the eighth ship of s. She was commissioned on 19 March 2002.

Design
The hull design was completely renovated from first-generation destroyers. In addition to increasing the size in order to reduce the underwater radiation noise, both the superstructure and hull were inclined to reduce the radar cross-section. There is however no angled tripod mainmast like the one of the American  because of the heavy weather of the Sea of Japan in winter. The aft was designed like a "mini-Oranda-zaka" as with the  to avoid interference between helicopters and mooring devices. Destroyers built under the First Defense Build-up Plan, including the former , adopted a unique long forecastle style called "Oranda-zaka".

The engine arrangement is COGAG as same as , but a pair of engines are updated to Spey SM1C. The remaining one pair were replaced with LM2500 versions, same as in the Kongō class.

Construction and career
Akebono was laid down on 29 October 1999 at IHI Corporation Tokyo as the 1997 plan and launched on 25 September 2000. The vessel was commissioned on 19 March 2002, and was incorporated into the 4th Escort Corps and deployed to Kure.

In June 2019,  Akebono was dispatched to additionally participate in the 2019 Indo-Pacific dispatch training in which the vessels  and  were participating. The destroyer conducted joint training with the navies of each country in the Indo-Pacific region during the deployment.

On 7 April 2024, Akebono conducted a joint patrol in the South China Sea with BRP Antonio Luna and BRP Valentin Diaz of the Philippine Navy, USS Mobile of the US Navy, and HMAS Warramunga of the Royal Australian Navy. This marked the first multinational patrol among the nations.

Gallery

Citations

References 
 
 
 Saunders, Stephen. IHS Jane's Fighting Ships 2013-2014. Jane's Information Group (2003). 

2000 ships
Murasame-class destroyers (1994)
Ships built by IHI Corporation
Xingtai XTQ1020. The Xingtai XTQ1020 was a 2-tonne pickup truck produced by Xingtai 114 Automobile Factory. It had a four-door body, long before Dacia produced such a variant.

Overview
Xingtai 114 Automobile Factory assembled the Dacia pickup in the 1980s and 1990s, according to a Chinese-language overview of the company's history.

They also manufactured a station wagon version, based on the Dacia 1310, with reports of a sedan variant and the Dacia 1309 being offered.

Other versions
The Shenyang Sanshan Company produced their own version of the Xingtai XTQ1020, which had the same design.

Media
The Xingtai XTQ1020 was featured in the 1993 Chinese film Dai qiang de ge nu.

References

Cars of China
1980s cars
1990s cars
Pickup trucks
Yan Xiyun. Yan Xiyun (; born February 1957) is a Chinese nanobiologist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, researcher and doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Biophysics, and professor of the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her main accomplishment was the discovery of nanozymes and its application in tumor diagnosis.

Early life and career 
Xiyun Yan attended Henan Medical University and obtained her B.S. degree in 1983. Following that, Yan studied cell biology in a lab at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) until leaving for Germany to obtain a doctorate in 1989. She graduated with a medical doctor’s degree from Heidelberg University and later traveled to the United States to engage in post-doctoral research at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Yan returned to China in 1997 and was selected for the Hundred Talents Program by CAS. Since then, Yan has focused on tumor research, working to discover new targets and advancing techniques for tumor diagnosis and therapy.

Research summary 
Yan Xiyun focused mainly on tumor immunology and nanozymes research. In 2007, Yan discovered nanozymes and proposed that nanoparticles possess enzymatic properties. Yan was the first to integrate the use of nanomaterials as enzymes mimic to advance tumor diagnosis and therapy. This compelling discovery of nanozyme shifted the initial idea that nanoparticles are chemically inactive, which unveiled many new applications for nanoparticles in the fields of medicine, biotechnology, food production, environmental protection, and agriculture. Today, nanozymes is seen as an emerging field that combines both nanotechnology and biotechnology. Tumor immunology research led her to discover CD146, a melanoma cell adhesion molecule that is greatly expressed in tumor cells that leads to metastasis. Yan and her team were able to determine the ligands of CD146, and develop treatments for liver, pancreatic, and colon cancer by creating therapeutic humanized antibodies. The discovery of nanozymes has won China's State Natural Science Award. The work of Yan and her team has been recognized and published in Nature, Blood, PNAS, and other journals.

References 

Chinese immunologists
1957 births
Living people
Chinese women biologists
Biologists from Hunan
Cancer researchers
Fukuda/Hitachi HT-3. The Fukuda/Hitachi HT-3 glider was a detailed 3/5 scale model of a proposed airliner, the Hitachi HT-3. Aerodynamic data gathered under tow was expected to be more reliable than that from wind tunnel testing.

Design and development

Until the development of high pressure wind tunnels the aerodynamics of models and full scale structures could differ markedly because of the much higher Reynolds number of the latter. To avoid possible problems the Aviation Bureau, who were sponsoring Hitachi's eight seat civil airliner, asked Fukuda to build a towed, 3/5 scale glider to investigate the design's aerodynamics. The modelling was detailed, including the glazing of the cockpit, the twin inline engine nacelles and the retracted landing gear.

The glider had a wooden structure, covered with plywood and fabric. It was flown from within the enclosed model cockpit, though by only one pilot rather than the two who would have piloted the full sale airliner. After measurements had been made the glider was released from the tow and landed normally.

Its first flight was made on 17 December 1940, piloted by Isamu Oda who was a well known glider pilot. It is not known how many more flights were made before the HT-3, still at the mock-up stage, was abandoned as Japanese aircraft development refocused on military aviation.

Specifications

References

External links
 
 

Glider aircraft
Japanese experimental aircraft
1940s Japanese civil aircraft
Nadine Sarter. Nadine Barbara Sarter (born 1959) is a German-American industrial engineer interested in multimodal interaction, touch user interfaces, aircraft cockpit controls, and the ergonomics of human-machine interfaces. She is Richard W. Pew Collegiate Professor of Industrial & Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, where she directs the Center for Ergonomics and is also affiliated with the Robotics Institute and Department of Aerospace Engineering.

Education and career
Sarter earned bachelor's and master's degree in psychology at the University of Hamburg in Germany, in 1981 and 1983 respectively. She worked in human factors and ergonomics in Germany for several years
before emigrating to the US with her husband, psychologist Martin Sarter, and returning to graduate study in engineering. She completed a Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering at Ohio State University in 1994, under the supervision of David Woods.

After completing her doctorate, she became an assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, affiliated with the Institute of Aviation there. In 1999 she returned to Ohio State University as a faculty member, with joint appointments in the Department of Industrial, Welding, and Systems Engineering and Department of Psychology. She moved again to the University of Michigan in 2004.

Books
Sarter is a coauthor of the book Behind Human Error (Ashgate, 2011), and a coeditor of Cognitive Engineering in the Aviation Domain (CRC Press, 2020).

Recognition
Sarter was named a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society in 2017. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2019 in recognition of her "innovation in the design and use of tactile displays for improved safety in aviation, automobiles, and healthcare".

References

External links
The Human-Automation Interaction and Cognition Lab at the University of Michigan

1959 births
Living people
American industrial engineers
American women engineers
University of Hamburg alumni
Ohio State University College of Engineering alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Ohio State University faculty
University of Michigan faculty
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
American women academics
21st-century American women
Lars Brising. Lars Harald Brising (1915-1995) was a Swedish engineer and aircraft designer. He is best known for having been chief designer for Saab 29 Tunnan which flew for the first time in 1948. He became major general (the head) of the Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration.

Lars Brising was the son of art historiann Harald Brising. He underwent flight training in the Swedish Air Force in 1936 and graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in 1938. He worked at the Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration 1938–1939 and then became designer at Götaverken's aviation department in 1939 and was active at Valtion lentokonetehdas in Finland 1940. Brising was then flight test manager at Saab 1940–1941, section manager at the Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration design office 1941–1943.

He became technical manager of Saab's flight test department in 1943, became project engineer in 1945, construction manager for jet aircraft in 1946, chief engineer for construction in 1949, head of the aeronautics department in 1952 and director in 1954.

He became major general at the Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration in 1965 and was its head 1967–1968. As head of the Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration, he was also a member of Administration Board of the Swedish Armed Forces.

Brising was CEO for Svenska Utvecklings AB (a governmental tech and business development company) 1968–1975.

Brising became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 1956 and of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences in 1964. He was promoted to technology honorary doctor at KTH in 1974.

See also 
 Saab 29 Tunnan
 Saab AB

References

External links 
 Lars Brising – Uppslagsverk – NE.se
 Lars Brising. Konstruktionschef hos Saab – DN.SE

Artists from Stockholm
1915 births
1995 deaths
Aircraft designers
20th-century Swedish engineers
Aerodynamicists
Swedish civil engineers
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
Swedish Air Force personnel
Butwal Solar PV Project. Butwal Solar PV Project is located at Rupandehi District of Lumbini Province, Nepal.  The plant is owned and run by Ridi Hydropower Development Company Ltd, an IPP. The plant came in operation in October 2020.

The power station has capacity of 8.5 MW consisting of 32,640 number of solar panels - each generating about 330 watts peak power. The plant occupies an area of about 26 Bighas of land (approx. 17.2 hector). The energy generated by the project is connected to the 33 kV Butwal Substation in Tilottama. The solar station generates energy only during the daytime.

The plant was built in 10 months at the cost of NPR 65.5 crores. The loan is financed by Bank of Kathmandu along with Citizens Bank and Nepal Bangladesh Bank. The electricity is sold to Nepal Electricity Authority at rate of NPR 7.3/unit for 25 years. After 25 years, the ownership will be transferred to the Nepal government.

Power Generation

See also
List of power stations in Nepal
Nuwakot Solar Power Station
Mithila 2 Solar PV Station

References

Energy in Nepal
Renewable energy in Nepal
Solar power in Nepal
Solar power stations in Nepal
Electric power in Nepal
2020 establishments in Nepal
Buildings and structures in Rupandehi District