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Lancia Dialogos. The Lancia Diàlogos is an Italian luxury concept car that was presented in saloon form at the 1998 Turin Motor Show. 

By European standards, the Diàlogos is a significantly large car with a  width,  height and standard wheelbase of , as a result of its interior designed to combine the concepts of a perfect atmosphere, a living room, and stress-free driving.

Under development since August 1996, the Diàlogos was designed by the company's in-house Centro Stile Lancia under chief designer, Mike Robinson, who described the concept as "a futuristic design, a next-generation car, with a flavor of the past". Distinctive body features include front styling dominated by a large grille, and the absence of side central pillars with the rear doors opening backwards, to evoke the design of the Lancia Aurelia saloon of the 1950s.The interior is sumptuously appointed with body-moulding seats trimmed in "nabuk", said to be similar to chamois leather. In addition, the front seats of the Diàlogos swivel through 90° to help access into the cabin, and by 180° to form a sofa facing the rear seats. Other interior features includes: a steering wheel and instrument panel located at the centre for ease of access but that can slide on either side depending on the prevailing driving direction; 2 screens fitted in the back of the front seats; a tactile thin film of softwood bonded to a layer of resin and foam for the dashboard and some other areas; a personal electronic key, known as the "Ego Card", which allows the car to adapt to an individual's needs associated with seat position, multi-zone climate control settings, steering-wheel and pedal position; automatically opening driver's door upon approaching the car. 

Mechanically, although not equipped with an engine, the Diàlogos is said to feature an active differential and adjustable drive-torque distribution to both axles as well as advanced multilink suspensions. For example, the front suspension uses a virtual steering axis, with the said axis passing through the center of the front wheels thus claimed to result in potholes or uneven surfaces not causing the wheel to vibrate or turn. The rear suspension too uses a virtual pitch center such that, when riding over an obstacle, the wheel moves back to reduce interference transmitted to the body.

In terms of driving technologies the Diàlogos has: fully adaptive headlights that respond to driving conditions; adaptive cruise control; adaptive semi-automatic transmission; anti-collision and lane departure systems; voice control for many systems; exterior cameras. 

Lancia later adapted and introduced many of the above technologies for mass production on its Lancia Thesis saloon, which was launched in 2001 and whose exterior styling was based on that of the Diàlogos.

Although a wagon concept was also designed, it was never produced to full scale.

Lancia Giubileo
In 2000, a one-off version named Giubileo was built and gifted to Pope John Paul II as part of the Catholic church's Great Jubilee celebrations. It was powered by a 3.0L Alfa Romeo V6 engine and was valued at 1.5 million.

References

Diàlogos
Retro-style automobiles
Let-Mont Tulak. The Let-Mont Tulak () is a Czech microlight aircraft that was designed and produced by Let-Mont sro of Vikýřovice. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft or a kit for amateur construction.

The aircraft was marketed in Austria and Germany under the name Amigo.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the European Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of . It was also marketed in the United States as a kit only for the US homebuilt category.

The Tulak features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit accessed via doors, fixed conventional landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft fuselage is made from welded steel tubing, with the whole aircraft covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its  span wing employs a Clark Y airfoil, mounts flaps, has a wing area of  and is supported by "V" struts and jury struts. The standard engine used is the  Rotax 503 two-stroke and  Rotax 912 four-stroke powerplant, although a four-stroke BMW boxer engine was also available as a factory option

The Tulak has a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of .

The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 700 hours.

Operational history
By 1998 the company reported that 10 aircraft were completed and flying.

In September 2014 no examples were registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration.

Specifications (Tulak)

References

External links

Tulak
1990s Czech and Czechoslovak sport aircraft
1990s Czech and Czechoslovak ultralight aircraft
1990s Czech and Czechoslovak civil utility aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Energoinvest. Energoinvest (full name: Energoinvest, d.d. - Sarajevo) is a Bosnian multidisciplinary engineering and energy company with headquarters in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

History
Energoinvest was established as a small design office under the name of "Elektroprojekt" in 1951 with Emerik Blum at the top of the company. Energoinvest has developed into a modern European company whose business is based on the system engineering model of the realized project "turnkey".

In 1958, Energoinvest was an export oriented company conducting business in markets in more than 20 countries from Mexico to Malaysia.

By 1987, Energoinvest was the largest exporter in the former Yugoslavia in reaching its business peak turnover of one billion dollars with 42,000 employees.

Energoinvest has tens of thousands of kilometers of transmission lines, thousands of substations, a number of hydro and thermal power plants, and process and industrial plants on all continents.

See also
 List of companies of Bosnia and Herzegovina
 List of companies of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

References

Further reading

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Engineering companies of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Companies based in Sarajevo
Design companies established in 1951
1951 establishments in Yugoslavia
Companies of Yugoslavia
Former government-owned companies
Letov ST-4 Aztek. The Letov ST-4 Aztek () is a Czech microlight aircraft that was designed and produced by Letov Kbely of Prague - Letňany, in the 1990s. When it was available, the aircraft was supplied as a complete ready-to-fly aircraft, or as a kit for amateur construction.

In January 2014, the ST-4 was no longer listed as a product of the company.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of . The ST-4 Aztek features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit, fixed tricycle landing gear with wheel pants, a small tailskid and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from aluminum tubing with fairings made from fibreglass and its flying surfaces are covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its  span wing mounts flaps and has a wing area of . The wings are supported by V-struts with jury struts and the empennage is cable-braced. The acceptable power range is  and the standard engine used is the  Rotax 503 two-stroke powerplant. The engine is mounted high above the cockpit on the front end of the aluminum tube that acts as the tailboom.

The ST-4 Aztek has a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload for pilot, passenger and baggage is .

The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 80 hours.

Operational history
By 1998 the company reported that 26 kits had been sold, and that 15 aircraft were completed and flying.

Specifications (ST-4 Aztek)

References

External links

ST-4 Aztek
1990s Czech and Czechoslovak sport aircraft
1990s Czech and Czechoslovak ultralight aircraft
1990s Czech and Czechoslovak civil utility aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
NAVSUP Business Systems Center. The Naval Supply Systems Command Business Systems Center (NAVSUP BSC) designs, develops, maintains, integrates, and implements business systems for the United States Navy, United States Department of Defense, joint service, and other federal agencies.

NAVSUP BSC is an Echelon III command of the Naval Supply Systems Command.

NAVSUP Business Systems Center delivers Information Technology/Information Management (IT/IM) solutions with specific emphasis on logistics and financial related products and services.

History

NAVSUP BSC began as the U.S. Navy's Fleet Material Support Office (FMSO) on Jan. 15, 1962 under the command of Capt. I. F. Haddock. The command's original mission was to manage Navy-owned retail stocks of medical, general, and industrial materials bought and controlled by the newly established Defense Supply Agency. FMSO also coordinated efforts of inventory control points in the preparation of allowance and load lists for all supply support materials aboard ship and at overseas bases.  Over time, the mission of command has evolved, and is now focused on information technology.

NAVSUP Business Systems Center locations
NAVSUP Business Systems Center Headquarters is a tenant activity of Naval Support Activity Mechanicsburg, PA in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.  Nine additional BSC locations exist, with six U.S. locations, and three international locations.  These are:

Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia
Naval Support Activity, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida
San Diego, California
Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington
Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Naval Air Station Sigonella, Italy
U.S. Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan

Navy Supply System Command activities
The twelve NAVSUP Echelon III activities are:

 NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support (NAVSUP WSS)
 NAVSUP Business Systems Center (NAVSUP BSC)
 Navy Exchange Service Command (NEXCOM)
 NAVSUP Global Logistics Support (NAVSUP GLS)
 NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center Jacksonville (NAVSUP FLC Jacksonville)
 NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center Norfolk (NAVSUP FLC Norfolk)
 NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center Pearl Harbor (NAVSUP FLC Pearl Harbor)
 NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center Puget Sound (NAVSUP FLC Puget Sound)
 NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center San Diego (NAVSUP FLC San Diego)
 NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center Sigonella (NAVSUP FLC Sigonella)
 NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center Yokosuka (NAVSUP FLC Yokosuka)
 NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center Bahrain (NAVSUP FLC Bahrain)

Footnotes

External links
 The official website of NAVSUP BSC

Military logistics of the United States
Military logistics units and formations of the United States Navy
Vidor Champion V. The Vidor Champion V is an Italian homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Giuseppe Vidor, first flying on 10 June 1995. The aircraft is supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction. It is also known as the Asso Aerei V Champion.

The Champion V was developed into the Alpi Pioneer 300, with the addition of composite skin.

Design and development
The Champion V features a cantilever low-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, fixed or optionally retractable tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from wood, with its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its  span wing mounts flaps and has a wing area of . The wings are removable in about 15 minutes for ground transport or storage. The cabin width is . The acceptable power range is  and the standard engine used is the  Volkswagen air-cooled engine four cylinder, air-cooled, four stroke automotive conversion powerplant.

The Champion V has a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload for the pilot, passenger and baggage is .

The manufacturer estimates the construction time from the supplied kit as 1500 hours.

Operational history
By 1998 the company reported that 15 kits had been sold and three aircraft were completed and flying.

In January 2014 one example was registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration.

Specifications (Champion V retractable)

References

External links

Photo of a Champion V
Champion V photo collection

Champion V
1990s Italian sport aircraft
1990s Italian civil utility aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1995
Chongqing International Construction Corporation. China Chongqing International Construction Corporation (also known as CICO) is a Chinese construction and engineering company and subsidiary of Chongqing Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Group Co., Ltd. (CFTEC) It is known as a project contractor for road building in Africa.

The company has taken on several road projects in Uganda, including the following: (a) It is the contractor for the Export Import Bank of China funded $350 million Entebbe–Kampala Expressway. (b) Another road built by CICO, between 2010 and 2014 is the Fort Portal–Bundibugyo–Lamia Road.  (c) In another project, partially funded by the Nordic Development Fund, it built from 2009 until 2010, the  Matugga–Kapeeka Road.

The government of Liberia signed a contract in 2012 with CICO to rehabilitate the Monrovia-Gbarnga-Ganta highway, one of West Africa's key roads, which had decayed following the Second Liberian Civil War. The $166-m project, funded by the World Bank and European Union, involves the paving of 180 km of road through 12 counties of the country, and the project contract contained provisions for the participation of Liberian-owned subcontractors. The government's goal in the project is to upgrade road connections to neighbouring countries that form the Mano River Union. In another World Bank funded project in Liberia, CICO was contracted in 2008 after the International Competitive Bidding process to build a $16-m Vai Town Bridge, which had earlier collapsed in 2007. The completed bridge was dedicated at the end of 2011.

References

Construction and civil engineering companies of China
Companies based in Chongqing
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1985
Chinese companies established in 1985
1985 in Chongqing
Richmond Locomotive and Machine Works. Richmond Locomotive and Machine Works, also known as the American Locomotive Company, Richmond Works, consists of two historic buildings located in Richmond, Virginia. They are an Iron Foundry, in use by 1887 and expanded in 1917, and a Brass Foundry, constructed in 1922.  Both structures are steel framed, and clad in brick.  The Iron Foundry building is approximately 100 feet wide by 480 feet long. The Brass Foundry building measures approximately 160 feet by 50 feet.  The Richmond Locomotive & Machine Works grew out of Tredegar Iron Works to become a nationally known manufacturer of steam locomotive engines and an integral part of the industrial landscape of the Three Corners District in Richmond.

The company stopped producing locomotives in Richmond in 1927. The site remained in use until late 2006, most recently as a specialty steel fabrication plant. It was subsequently rehabilitated and occupied by Bow Tie Cinemas for their Movieland at Boulevard Square development.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

References

External links
 Movieland at Boulevard Square

Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Neoclassical architecture in Virginia
Industrial buildings completed in 1887
Buildings and structures in Richmond, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Richmond, Virginia
Theatres in Virginia
Stern ST 87 Vega. The Stern ST 87 Vega (sometimes ST-87) is a French homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Rene Stern, first flying in July 1992. The aircraft is supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction.

Design and development
The ST 87 Vega features a cantilever low-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, fixed conventional landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from wood, with its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its  span wing mounts flaps and has a wing area of . The cabin width is . The acceptable power range is  and the standard engine used is the  Lycoming O-235 powerplant.

The ST 87 Vega has a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload for the pilot, passenger and baggage is .

The manufacturer estimates the construction time from the supplied kit as 2000 hours.

Operational history
By 1998 the company reported that four kits had been sold and two aircraft were completed and flying.

Specifications (ST 87 Vega)

References

External links

Photo of a Stern ST 87 Vega

ST 87 Vega
1990s French sport aircraft
1990s French ultralight aircraft
1990s French civil utility aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1992
ION (satellite). The Illinois Observing Nanosatellite (ION) is the first CubeSat mission developed by the students of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The satellite was lost in the failure of the Dnepr launch on 26 July 2006.
Completed in April 2005 as a part of the Illinois Tiny Satellite Initiative, the satellite took almost four years to be designed, built and tested by an interdisciplinary team of student engineers. The payloads included a photometer, a micro-thruster and a camera.

Mission objectives 
The science and technology objectives of the ION-1 mission were aimed at advancing key enabling technologies for CubeSats:

Measurement of oxygen intensity in Earth's ionosphere to understand how energy transfers occur across large regions
Test the MicroVacuum Arc Thruster (μVAT), a versatile small satellite propulsion technology for lateral movement and fine-control of attitude
Test the SID processor board designed specifically for small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO)
Test a small CMOS camera for Earth imaging
Demonstrate attitude stabilization on a CubeSat

Future missions at UIUC 
ION-1 was built using the IlliniSat-1 bus. The upgraded IlliniSat-2 bus is now under development for missions such as Lower Atmosphere Ionosphere Coupling Experiment (LAICE) and the CubeSail, both to be launched in 2016.

References

CubeSats
Satellite launch failures
Spacecraft launched in 2006
Student satellites
Space accidents and incidents in Kazakhstan
Thermal mass refrigerator. A thermal mass refrigerator is a refrigerator that is foreseen with thermal mass as well as insulation to decrease the energy use of the refrigerator. 

A particularly popular thermal mass refrigerator was conceived by Michael Reynolds and detailed in his 1993 book Earthship Volume 3. This refrigerator was a DIY refrigerator designed around a (Sun-Frost) DC refrigeration unit run on P.V. panels.

Design
The thermal mass used in Michael Reynolds' design is a combination of a liquid (i.e. water or beer) together with concrete mass. Concrete's temperature can be decreased quickly, while a liquid's (such as beer or water) with its higher thermal mass requires more energy to change temperature, holding the cold for longer. In Michael Reynolds' design, the liquid is added in the form of beer cans, placed in the back of the refrigerator.

Besides the use of a large quantity of thermal mass, he also made sure that the inside of the box could be in direct contact with the outside air, so as to allow the unit to be cooled without electricity/compressor-assistance during winter. This is done by having the top of the unit openable by placing a skylight on top. A pipe connects the bottom to the outside as well, so as to allow natural circulation of air. The inflow of outside air from the top could be closed off by closing the skylight as well as by closing the removable insulated damper.

See also
 Kimchi refrigerator

References

Heat pumps
Food storage
Refrigerators
Food preservation
Cooling technology
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
Gérin 1936 Varivol biplane. The Gerin Varivol was a 1930s French research aircraft designed and built by Jacques Gerin. Only one aircraft was flown during 1936 before it was destroyed in an accident.

Design and development
The Varivol was an odd looking biplane with a deep and bulky fuselage with a knife edge rear where the rudder was attached and a braced variable-incidence tailplane was mounted on top of the rear fuselage. The unique feature of the aircraft were the two narrow-chord biplane wings in an inverted sesquiplane configuration. The wings were wire-braced and had one interplane strut on each side. The upper wing normally had an area of  but additional flexible surfaces inside the fuselage could be extended using an electrical motor to increase the wing area to . It was also possible to change the camber of the wings when extended. The Varivol was powered by a  Salmson radial piston engine with a two-bladed propeller.

It was first tested in a wind tunnel at Chalais-Meudon before starting test flying in March 1936. The aircraft continued to fly successfully until November 1936 when it was destroyed in a fatal crash, an investigation determined the accident was not due to the variable-area wings.

Further developments
Further development of the Varivol concept was carried out with the Gérin 1938 V.6E Varivol Racer a sleek monoplane racing aircraft that was built just prior to and during World War II,  being put into storage after the war. The aircraft can be seen at the Musee Regional de l'Air at Angers in France.

Specifications

References

Notes

Bibliography

1930s French experimental aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1936
Sesquiplanes
Cuthbert Daniel. Cuthbert Daniel (August 27, 1904 – August 8, 1997) was an American industrial statistician.

Daniel was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He obtained bachelor's and master's degrees in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but became interested in statistics through reading Statistical Methods for Research Workers by R. A. Fisher.

In 1955 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
Daniel was awarded the R. A. Fisher Lectureship by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies in 1971, the Wilks Memorial Award by the American Statistical Association in 1974, and the Shewhart Medal by the American Society for Quality in 1991.

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1904 births
1997 deaths
American statisticians
People from Williamsport, Pennsylvania
MIT School of Engineering alumni
20th-century American mathematicians
Fellows of the American Statistical Association