omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Air Assault Task Force. Air Assault Task Force is a computer wargame developed by ProSIM Company and published by Shrapnel Games.  The lead developer was ProSIM Company founder, Pat Proctor. Other developers included Gary Bezant and Curt Pangracs.

Air Assault Task Force is a combat simulator and includes four campaigns, set at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, LA, at LZ X-Ray during the Vietnam War, in the ill-fated Ranger raid in Mogadishu, Somalia (the famous "Black Hawk Down" incident), and Operation Anaconda during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. The game built on the pausable real-time gameplay of ProSIM's BCT Commander and the AI and hierarchy system of Armored Task Force. In addition to a major upgrade to these earlier game systems, it also includes a graphical and GUI overhaul that makes the game's graphics better.

In 2007, defense contractor Boeing commissioned ProSIM to create a custom version of the game for use as a ground combat simulator, to be paired with an intelligent tutor and after-action review agent application developed by Boeing.

References

2006 video games
Helicopter video games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows-only games
Windows games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Shrapnel Games games
Service wrapper. A service wrapper is a computer program that wraps arbitrary programs thus enabling them to be installed and run as Windows Services or Unix daemons, programs that run in the background, rather than under the direct control of a user. They are often automatically started at boot time. Arbitrary programs cannot run as services or daemons, unless they fulfil specific requirements which depend on the operating system. They also have to be installed in order for the operating system to identify them as such.

Various projects exist offering a Java service wrapper, as Java itself doesn't support creating system services. Some wrappers may add additional functionality to monitor the health of the application or to communicate with it.

See also
 Windows Service
 Unix daemon

External links

 Java Service Wrapper
 Yet Another Java Service Wrapper
 Java Service Launcher
 JavaService
 Apache Commons Daemon
 FireDaemon - Run Any Application as a Windows Service
 AlwaysUp - Easily run any application as a Windows Service
 Windows Service Wrapper
 NSSM

Java platform software
Windows services
Peter Mew. Peter Mew is a retired British music audio engineer. He worked at Abbey Road Studios, where he was the senior mastering engineer. He came to Abbey Road in 1965 as a tape operator and has since worked with many artists at the studio. Kevin Ayers of Soft Machine has called Mew "the best engineer I've ever worked with".

Biography 

Mew has had a prolific career at the Abbey Road Studios, home base of groups like The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and recording engineers such as Alan Parsons. He was involved on the historic Syd Barrett solo recordings, and remastered his compilation albums.

He started his career at Abbey Road as a tea boy, then tape-op, and finally  as a recording engineer, on Pretty Things' S.F. Sorrow, in 1967. He was responsible for not deadening the studio, keeping its multidimensional sound, thereby allowing the installations to be used  for orchestral sessions, and giving the studio its trademark sound.

During the early 1980s he pioneered the CD preparation installation in the studio, while working on several outstanding projects.

As the senior mastering engineer, he mastered records in stereo and surround, on CD, DVD, and SACD. Working with the Sonic Solutions suite, he has restored albums by a considerable number of artists (basically most of those who have used the Abbey Road facilities at one point or another).

On 29 August 2013, Mew retired after a 50-year career.

References 

British audio engineers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Mastering engineers
EMI
Galbusera. Galbusera () is a vintage brand of Italian motorcycles made by Moto Galbusera & Co. (later Motocicli Plinio Galbusera) in Brescia from 1934 to 1955.

History 
Plinio Galbusera and engineer Adolf Marama Toyo initially built 173 to 498 cc Python (Rudge-Whitworth) and Sturmey-Archer engines into their frames, but in 1938 they made two larger models. One was a 249.2 cc four-two with compressor; the other had a 498.4 cc eight cylinder engine built from two coupled four blocks. It also had a compressor.

Galbusera did not intend to develop much power. His primary goal was to create reliable machines and the top speed of 150 km/hour was very acceptable.

After 1945, the standard engine was 125 to 175 cc with two-Sachs-blocks, later replaced by Villiers engines. In 1955 they began to have financial problems and production was terminated.

See also 

 List of Italian companies
 List of motorcycle manufacturers

References 

Motorcycles by brand
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Italy
Defunct motorcycle manufacturers of Italy
Blue Yonder EZ Flyer. The Blue Yonder EZ Flyer is a Canadian-designed-and-built, tandem two-seat, open cockpit, pusher configuration, recreational and training aircraft provided as a completed aircraft or in kit form by Blue Yonder Aviation.

It can be constructed in Canada as a basic ultra-light, an advanced ultra-light or amateur-built aircraft.

Development
The EZ Flyer was the first aircraft design of Wayne Winters of Indus, Alberta. In 1991 Winters set out to design a high performance kit plane that he intended to produce commercially. While considering the design parameters of that proposed aircraft he saw a picture of a Breezy homebuilt and decided instead to design a smaller and lighter aircraft inspired by the Breezy instead. Winter's own past experience flying Ultraflight Lazairs provided the motivation for the design of a slow, easy to handle aircraft with an open cockpit.

Winters designed a new open lattice, "N" girder fuselage constructed from 4130 steel tube along with a new tail to be fitted with wings from the Merlin EZ. The aircraft retained the Junker's ailerons of the Merlin along with the Clark "Y" airfoil that produces docile handling characteristics. The wing also features the Merlin's leading edge "D" cell construction, with foam ribs. The prototype has two seats in tandem and is powered by a Rotax 503 two stroke engine of .

The first prototype of the new design flew in October 1991 and was initially unnamed. Winters allowed several pilots to fly the new design and all remarked on its docile handling, its suitability as a trainer and the ease with which pilots mastered it. As a result, Winters initially named it Easy Flyer and later EZ Flyer (pronounced in the American way as "Eezee Flier").

The EZ Flyer can be equipped with a variety of powerplants, all mounted in pusher configuration:

Rotax 503 
Rotax 582 
Rotax 912 
Rotax 912S

Operational history
The prototype proved robust and easy for students to learn to fly on and has been used since new as a trainer at the Blue Yonder Ultralight Flight School. By May 2001 the prototype had 2500 hours accumulated in student training and showed little signs of wear. Over 30 aircraft have been built for private owners and other flight schools.

In November 2016 there were eight EZ Flyers registered in Canada and eight in the USA.

Operators
 Blue Yonder Aviation – flight school

Specifications (Rotax 582)

See also

References

External links

 Blue Yonder Aviation

Single-engined pusher aircraft
Parasol-wing aircraft
EZ Flyer
1990s Canadian ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Aircraft with fixed tricycle landing gear
Single-engined piston aircraft
Louis Le Chatelier. Louis Le Chatelier (20 February 1815 – 10 November 1873) was a French chemist and industrialist who developed a method for producing aluminium from bauxite in 1855. His son was chemist Henry Louis Le Chatelier. His name is inscribed on the Eiffel tower.

Le Chatelier and his wife Louise Madeleine Élisabeth Durand (1827–1902) had seven children.
One was Alfred Le Chatelier (1855–1929), who joined the army.
Alfred later became a ceramicist and then held the chair of Muslim sociology in the Collège de France for many years.

References

Sources

École Polytechnique alumni
Mines Paris - PSL alumni
Corps des mines
19th-century French chemists
1815 births
1873 deaths
Scientists from Paris
RAFGL. RAFGL, the "Revised Air Force Geophysical Laboratory" (S.D. Price and T.L. Murdock, 1983), is a four-color infrared sky survey catalog. It contains measurements at 4.2, 11.0, 19.8 and 27.4 micron of 2,970 sources, obtained with sounding rockets, in combination with some ground-based data.

The catalog includes most of the AFCRL (Air Force Cambridge Research Lab) with the same number, omitting unconfirmed sources, and also, 306 new sources of the southern hemisphere, numbered from 
4001 to 4306. It also gives updated positions and more accurate results.

References

Astronomical databases
Astronomical catalogues
GPXE. gPXE is an open-source Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) client firmware implementation and bootloader derived from Etherboot. It can be used to enable computers without built-in PXE support to boot from the network, or to extend an existing client PXE implementation with support for additional protocols.  While standard PXE clients use TFTP to transfer data, gPXE client firmware adds the ability to retrieve data through other protocols like HTTP, iSCSI and ATA over Ethernet (AoE), and can work with Wi-Fi rather than requiring a wired connection.

gPXE development ceased in summer 2010, and several projects are migrating or considering migrating to iPXE as a result.

PXE implementation 

gPXE can be loaded by a computer in several ways:
from media like floppy disk, USB flash drive, or hard disk
as a pseudo Linux kernel
as an ELF image
from an option ROM on a network card or embedded in a system BIOS
over a network as a PXE boot image

gPXE implements its own PXE stack, using a driver corresponding to the network card, or a UNDI driver if it was loaded by PXE itself. This allows to use a PXE stack even if the network card has no boot ROM, by loading gPXE from a fixed medium.

Bootloader 

Although its basic role was to implement a PXE stack, gPXE can be used as a full-featured network bootloader. It can fetch files from multiple network protocols, such as TFTP, NFS, HTTP or FTP, and can boot PXE, ELF, Linux, FreeBSD, multiboot, EFI, NBI and Windows CE images.

In addition, it is scriptable and can load COMBOOT and COM32 SYSLINUX extensions. This allows for instance to build a graphical menu for network boot.

See also 

 PXE
 PXELINUX
 iPXE

References

External links
 etherboot.org - The Etherboot/gPXE Wiki
 ROM-o-matic.net dynamically generates gPXE and Etherboot network booting image
 Introduction to Network Booting and Etherboot
 PXE dust: scalable day-to-day diskless booting (via Archive.org last available)

Network booting
Free boot loaders
Free network-related software
John G. Linvill. John G. Linvill (August 8, 1919 – February 19, 2011) was an American professor (emeritus) of Electrical engineering at Stanford University, known for his pioneering work in higher education, integrated circuits and semiconductors, and for development of the Optacon reading machine for the blind.

Early life and education
Linvill and his identical twin brother William went to the same universities.  Linvill received his A.B. in mathematics in 1941 from William Jewell College, and his B.S., M.S., and Sc.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1943, 1945, and 1949 respectively.

Career
He worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1951 to 1955, when he joined the Stanford Electrical Engineering department. In 1969 he was appointed head of the EE department, and in 1979 he became Director of the Center for Integrated Systems at Stanford. His teaching and research concentrated on active circuits, transistors, and models of semiconductors.

In 1962, Linvill conceived the Optacon (Optical-to-Tactile Converter) as a means to allow his blind daughter, Candy, to read ordinary print. He sparked the technical development of the device, which required innovations in integrated circuit technology developed under his leadership at Stanford. In 1970 he, Jim Bliss, and others from Stanford and SRI co-founded Telesensory Systems (TSI) to manufacture and distribute the Optacon.

John Linvill was chairman of the board of TSI, served on the boards of other Silicon Valley corporations, and led technical committees for the National Research Council, NASA, and the IEEE. He holds eleven U.S. patents.

He died February 19, 2011.

Honors and awards 
 Fellow, IEEE
 elected member National Academy of Engineering (1971)
 American Academy of Arts and Sciences
 IEEE Education Medal (1976)
 John G. McAulay Award from the American Association of Workers for the Blind (1979)
 John Scott Award from the Board of Directors of City Trusts of Philadelphia (1980), for the invention of the Optacon.
 Medal of Achievement from the American Electronics Association (1983)
 David Packard Medal of Achievement (1983)

References

1919 births
2011 deaths
American electrical engineers
Stanford University School of Engineering faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Flecha del Sur. Flecha del Sur  (Arrow of the South) was the name of a diesel train, AM-100 series, used for the first time on the southern Chilean rail network around 1940.

Overview
The diesel-electric model was custom built in Germany for the Chilean government by Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg and FerroStaal A.G. based on the success of the Flying Hamburger series that connected Berlin and Hamburg since 1933 and, as traditional in that time involving government's purchase of rail equipment, part of the payment was made via shipments of lentils. The series was made of six two-car units using a Jacobs bogie setup, each one having two 600 hp MAN engines electrified with AEG equipment that accelerated the 124 first class passengers convoys to a maximum speed of 130 km/h.

In 1948 their scheduled frequency was three weekly services in winter and six in summer, starting at Santiago's Estación Central railway station on 07:00 to reach Puerto Montt's station at 00.20.

External links 
Briefing and pictures from the Chilean Association of Railroad Patrimony Conservancy (in spanish)
Detailed history, technical facts, brochures and pictures (in spanish)

Passenger rail transport in Chile
Brochet MB.50. The Brochet MB.50 Pipistrelle (named for the Pipistrelle bat) is a French-built light sporting aircraft of the late 1940s.

Design and development
Maurice Brochet had designed the MB.30 parasol light aircraft and the MB.40 cabin two-seater before World War Two. His first postwar design was the MB.50 Pipistrelle ("Bat") of 1947, which first flew that year. It is a single-seat open-cockpit ultra-light aircraft with a pylon-mounted high wing, wooden fuselage frame and fabric covering. The design was kept simple with the amateur-built market, using factory working drawings, in mind.

The first MB.50 was built in 1947 by Maurice Brochet and was powered by a Salmson 9ADb 45 h.p. radial engine. The subsequent Pipistrelles were all built by amateur constructors. In 1965, six were active, three powered by the Salmson, two by the Beaussier 4Bm O2 of 45 h.p. and one fitted with a Zlín Persy II.  Maurice Brochet formed Constructions Aeronautiques Maurice Brochet and designed the MB.60 Barbastrelle tandem two-seat high-wing monoplane which first flew in June 1949.

Survivors
Pipistrelle F-PEBZ was still active in 2005. Another was held in the collection of Ailes Ancienne Toulouse, near Toulouse Blagnac International Airport, during 2006.

Specifications

References

Notes

Bibliography

1940s French sport aircraft
Brochet aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Parasol-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1947
1st Special Operations Component Maintenance Squadron. The 1st Special Operations Component Maintenance Squadron is an active United States Air Force unit. Its current assignment is with the 1st Special Operations Maintenance Group, based at Eglin Aux Air Field #9 (Hurlburt Field), Florida.

Overview
The 1st Special Operations Component Maintenance Squadron (SOCMS) is responsible for organizational and all intermediate level maintenance on 141 different avionic, electronic warfare, sensor, electrical, pneudraulic, fuel and engine maintenance systems, specifically AC-130 gunships, MC-130H Combat Talon IIs, MC-130P Combat Shadows and MH-53J/M PAVE LOW III/IV helicopters assigned to the 1st Special Operations Wing. Technical support is provided on Communication/navigation, guidance and control, sensor, electronic warfare, pneudraulics, electrics and fuel systems, engines and propellers.

The squadron's unique repair capabilities cover the entire range—from vacuum tube, solid state and infrared components, to laser and fiber optic technology. In addition to maintenance for the wing's operational and transient aircraft, the squadron performs test and development work for ongoing acquisitions in support of Air Force Special Operations Command, U.S. Special Operations Command and the Department of Defense.

History

Lineage
 Constituted 1st Depot Repair Squadron on 1 October 1933
 Activated on 1 January 1941
 Inactivated on 6 November 1945
 Disbanded on 15 June 1983
 Reconstituted, and redesignated, 1st Special Operations Component Repair Squadron on 21 September 1992
 Activated on 22 September 1992
 Inactivated on 1 October 1993
 Redesignated 1st Special Operations Component Maintenance Squadron on 15 November 2006
 Activated on 16 November 2006.

Assignments
 1st Air Depot Group, France Field, Canal Zone, 1 January 1941
 VI Air Force Service Command, 10 June 1944
 San Antonio Air Technical Service Command, 19 December 1944
 23rd Air Depot Group, 26 March 1945
 San Antonio Air Technical Service Command, 23 May-6 November 1945
 1st Special Operations Logistics Group, 22 September 1992 – 1 October 1993
 1st Special Operations Maintenance Group, 16 November 2006–present

Stations
 France Field, Canal Zone, 1 January 1941
 Albrook Field, Canal Zone, by 6 May 1943 – 7 December 1944
 Kelly Field, Texas, 19 December 1944 – 10 August 1945
 Fort Lawton, Washington, 15 August-1 September 1945
 Kelly Field, Texas, 21 September-6 November 1945
 Eglin Aux Air Field #9(Hurlburt Field), Florida, 22 September 1992 – 1 October 1993
 Eglin Aux Air Field #9(Hurlburt Field), Florida, 16 November 2006–present

References

Bibliography 
 Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. .

External links 
 1st Special Operations Component Maintenance Squadron Fact Sheet

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Logistics units and formations of the United States Air Force
Ceriani. Ceriani, formerly Arces, was an Italian company that designed and fabricated motorcycle frames and suspensions. The company was founded by Arturo Ceriani in 1951. Arces is an acronym derived from Arturo Ceriani S.r.l.

In the European motorcycle industry, it was common for many smaller parts companies to exist, each responsible for creating individual parts to later be assembled into a complete motorcycle.  Within a few years of its creation, Ceriani's company was able to successfully make a name for itself by manufacturing components noted for their quality and vision.

In 1964, under the leadership of Arturo's son Enrico Ceriani, the companies operations were expanded. Enrico accelerated the expansion by moving the company to a new and more modern plant in Samarate. From 1964 the company was known within the industry as ARCES (an acronym of ARturo CEriani Samarate) but the brand identity was maintained and the company continued to be known as Ceriani by consumers.

A central development in the new plant was the creation of a team that was dedicated to studying and designing new solutions for the suspension systems and frames of competition motorcycles.

In the late 1960s, Ceriani began to produce an innovative new type of fork slider made of a light alloy for use in competition and a revolutionary type of telescopic hydraulic suspension that was originally used on motocross bikes but was later applied to street motorcycles.

The demand for the new suspension was so high that ARCES output had doubled compared to the year before.  The new technology exploded onto the market and by 1972 Ceriani had sold 100,000 suspension units, 30,000 to competition motorcycles and 70,000 to consumer street bikes. 

In the late 1970s, Ceriani experienced a rapid and unexpected decline during the overall crisis in the European manufacturing sector due to increased demand that stressed the capabilities of smaller companies. Other companies were able to successfully adapt and fill the niche of competition motorcycle parts manufacturing that was left vacant by Ceriani's inability to effectively meet rising demand.

Ceriani was not able to recover to the changing market and their plant closed down in 1980. The prestigious Ceriani brand name was bought in 1997 by Italian motorcycle parts maker Paioli.

Notes

See also 

List of Italian companies

Automotive motorsports and performance companies
Auto parts suppliers of Italy
Companies based in Lombardy
Defunct manufacturing companies of Italy
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1951
Italian companies established in 1951
Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1980
1980 disestablishments in Italy
Italian brands
Motorcycle parts manufacturers
Fiat Phyllis. The Fiat Phyllis is a prototype fuel cell-type hydrogen vehicle introduced in the International Motor Show Bologna (Italy) held til 14 December 2008. Car's engineers are the Ecole Polytechnic of Turin (Politecnico di Torino) and the Fiat Research Center (Centro Ricerche Fiat) who concocted (Piedmont Region supports this study).

Release
The car is planned to be released in 2010, the first clients being the employees of the Turin International Airport: a dozen vehicles will be delivered for a test in real conditions.

Specifications
 Weight: 
 Length: 
 Height: 
 Cargo capacity: 142 L (2+2 seats) or 584 L (2 seats)
 Engines: electric propulsion and batteries (150 kg)
 Acceleration: 6 seconds (0 to 50 km/h (0-31 mph))
 Max. speed: 130 km/h (81 mph)
 Full recharge time: 5 hours

See also
 Hydrogen ship
 Hydrogen vehicle
 Hydrogen economy

External links
 Fiat Phyllis electric and fuel cell

Phyllis
Hydrogen cars
Fuel cell vehicles