omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Veritair. Veritair Aviation Limited is a helicopter charter company based at Cardiff Heliport, in Cardiff, Wales.  It operates year-round charter and contract helicopter services throughout United Kingdom and Europe. Veritair Aviation has major contracts with the BBC for measurement of transmitting antenna radiation patterns throughout the UK and further afield, QinetiQ for recovering MOD targets offshore and provides a British Transport Police helicopter to patrol and secure railway lines throughout the UK.
 
Veritair Aviation was created following a management buyout in 2008 of Veritair from British International Helicopters led by Captain Julian Verity. Veritair Aviation holds a United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority Air Operator Certificate, which permits it to carry passengers for public air transportation.

History 
Veritair was founded by Julian Verity, its present managing director, in 1982 based at Cardiff Wales Airport operating a solitary Bell Jetranger helicopter.   TV and Broadcasters were and remain major users of the company's services both home and abroad.   The company quickly expanded with 2 Bell helicopters and in 1985 moved “downtown” into the first Cardiff Heliport, opened by Jim Callahan MP.  Branching into both police, BBC and MoD work in the 1990s saw the Company grow and diversify.

Veritair operates both single and twin-engine helicopters and now occupies the new £4m Cardiff Heliport opened in 2000 by HRH Prince of Wales in Cardiff Bay.  Veritair's progress has seen its ownership change hands several times over the past 27 years but its name, management and Welsh identity has remained throughout.

Previous owners include significant world-class helicopter operators including CHC Helicopter Corporation and more recently British International Helicopters (whose roots go back to British Airways Helicopters).

Fleet 
The Veritair Aviation fleet consists of the following aircraft:

 1 x MBB BK117C1
 1 x Aerospatiale AS355N Twin Squirrel
 1 x MBB Bo 105Db4

Destinations 
 Cardiff Heliport

See also
 List of defunct airlines of the United Kingdom

References

External links
Main Company Information

Economy of Cardiff
Companies based in Cardiff
Defunct airlines of the United Kingdom
Archway. An archway is the passage ("way") under an arch.

Archway may also refer to:

United Kingdom

Archway, London, an area of London, United Kingdom
Archway tube station, London Underground station
Archway Road, a major road in London
Archway Tower
Archway School, a secondary school in Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Thames Archway Company, a former company formed to build a tunnel under the River Thames

United States

Archway Cookies, an American cookie manufacturer
Great Platte River Road Archway Monument, a monument in Nebraska, United States
Archway Academy, a private high school in Houston, Texas, United States
The Archway, a newspaper at Bryant University, Smithfield, Rhode Island, United States

Other uses

Archway (solitaire)
Operation Archway, a military operation in the Second World War

See also
Arch (disambiguation)
Arches (disambiguation)
Port Victoria P.V.2. The Port Victoria P.V.2 was a British prototype floatplane fighter of the First World War, designed and built at the Royal Naval Air Service's Port Victoria Marine Experimental Aircraft Depot on the Isle of Grain. Only a single aircraft was built, with the type not being chosen for production.

Design and development

The Port Victoria Depot's second design, designated Port Victoria P.V.2 was a floatplane fighter intended to intercept German Zeppelins. The P.V.2 was a small single engined biplane, powered by a Gnome Monosoupape rotary engine driving a four blade propeller.  It was of wood and fabric construction, and of sesquiplane configuration, i.e. with its lower wing much smaller than its upper wing (both of which used the high-lift wing sections pioneered by the P.V.1). Unusually, the aircraft's wing bracing struts also carried the aircraft's floats, forming a "W" shape when viewed from the front.  The upper wing was attached directly to the top of the fuselage, giving a good field of fire for the intended armament of a single 2-lb Davis gun recoilless gun.

The P.V.2 first flew on 16 June 1916, and demonstrated good performance and handling.  The upper wing, however, while giving excellent upwards view to the pilot, gave a poor downwards view of the pilot, particularly during landing, while the Davis gun had lost favour with the Admiralty as an anti-Zeppelin weapon.  The P.V.2 was therefore rebuilt as the P.V.2bis with a revised, longer span upper wing mounted 12 inches (0.30 m) above the fuselage and the Davis gun replaced by two Lewis guns mounted above the wing, firing over the propeller. The modified aircraft first flew in this form in early 1917.

While the P.V.2bis again showed excellent handling, the RNAS's requirement for a floatplane anti-Zeppelin fighter had lapsed, and no production was ordered.

Specifications (P.V.2bis)

See also

References

Bruce, J.M. "The Sopwith Tabloid,Schneider and Baby: Historic Military Aircraft No.17 Part IV". Flight, 29 November 1957. pp. 845–848.
Collyer, David. "Babies Kittens and Griffons". Air Enthusiast, Number 43, 1991. Stamford, UK:Key Publishing. . pp. 50–55.
Mason, Francis K. The British Fighter since 1912. Annapolis, Maryland:Naval Institute Press, 1992. .

Floatplanes
1910s British fighter aircraft
Sesquiplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Rotary-engined aircraft
PV2
Aircraft first flown in 1916
Single-engined piston aircraft
Herbert Smith (aircraft designer). Herbert Smith  (1 May 1889 – 1977) was a British aircraft designer.

Smith was born in Bradley, North Yorkshire, England, on 1 May 1889. As a youth, he attended Keighley Boys Grammar School, in West Yorkshire. Smith subsequently attended Bradford Technical College, graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1907.

Smith started his career with the Yorkshire machine-tool manufacturers Dean, Smith & Grace, then became a draughtsman with Northampton lift manufacturers Smith, Major and Stephens. In March 1914, Smith joined the Sopwith Aviation Company as a draughtsman. Later that year, he became Sopwith's chief engineer. Smith went on to design the Pup, Triplane, Camel, and Snipe. He worked for the Sopwith firm until it dissolved in October 1920.

In February 1921 the Mitsubishi Internal Combustion Engine Manufacturing Company in Nagoya invited Smith, along with several other former Sopwith engineers to assist Mitsubishi in creating an aircraft manufacturing division. After moving to Japan, they designed the 1MT, B1M, 1MF, and 2MR.  Smith returned to England in 1924 and retired from the aviation industry.

Notes

References

 Crampton, John. "Herbert Smith--Aircraft Designer." Air Pictorial: Journal of the Air League of the British Empire, Volume 37, 1975.
 Peattie, Mark. Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941. Annapolis, MD: US Naval Institute Press, 2001. .
 Platt, Robin. "Herbert Smith, Aircraft Designer Par Excellence." Cross & Cockade International, Summer 2012. 
 Robertson, Bruce. Sopwith – The Man and His Aircraft. London: Harleyford, 1970. .

1889 births
1977 deaths
Aircraft designers
British aviation pioneers
British aerospace engineers
Fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Society
Fred Weibell. Fred John Weibell (October 18, 1927 – 2015) was an American biomedical engineer.  He served for many years as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES).  In 1992, he was the first recipient of the BMES Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his "extraordinary contributions to the Society."

Together with Leslie Cromwell and Erich A. Pfieffer, he was a coauthor of Biomedical Instrumentation and Measurements (Prentice Hall ).  For several decades, this text has been "considered by many to be the 'Bible' for biomedical technicians," and is still used in the curriculum of colleges and universities worldwide.

He died August 6, 2015, from causes incident to age and Parkinson's disease.

References

1927 births
University of Utah alumni
Scientists from Salt Lake City
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
2015 deaths
American biomedical engineers
HWT. HWT may refer to:

 Harvey World Travel, a former Australian travel agency franchise
 Health and welfare trust, a Canadian healthcare plan
 The Herald and Weekly Times, an Australian newspaper publishing company 
 Heritage Walk Trivandrum, an Indian non-profit organisation
 HIStory World Tour, 1996-97 concert tour by Michael Jackson
 Hypersonic wind tunnel
 Herschel Walker trade, the largest player trade in the history of the U.S. National Football League
 Humanoid Walking Tank, a type of robot in the Japanese video game Gunparade March
 Handwriting without Tears, a writing program.
National Construction Equipment Museum. The National Construction Equipment Museum is a non-profit organization located in Bowling Green, Ohio, United States that is dedicated to preserving the history of construction, dredging and surface mining industries and equipment.  The museum is operated by the Historical Construction Equipment Association and features many different types of construction equipment, including cranes, shovels, rollers, scrapers, bulldozers, dump trucks, concrete mixers, drills and other heavy equipment.

At the end of December 2021 an effort began to expand the museum.

References

External links
Historical Construction Equipment Association
National Construction Equipment Museum - Discover Ohio
Information about the museum's holdings and visitation
Ohio Traveler - article about the museum

Museums in Wood County, Ohio
Transportation museums in Ohio
Engineering vehicles
Technology museums in Ohio
Industry museums in Ohio
Bowling Green, Ohio
372nd Engineer Brigade (United States). The 372nd Engineer Brigade is a combat engineer brigade of the United States Army based in Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Recently converted from the 372nd Engineer Group which traces its lineage back to World War II, the brigade was activated on 16 September 2008. It is a United States Army Reserve formation and is subordinate to the 416th Theater Engineer Command out of Darien, Illinois.

Organization 
The brigade is a subordinate unit of the 416th Theater Engineer Command (Darien, Illinois). The brigade contains three subordinate battalions:
 367th Engineer Battalion, in St. Cloud, Minnesota
 863rd Engineer Battalion, in Darien, Illinois
 983rd Engineer Battalion, in Monclova, Ohio.

Lineage 
Constituted 5 September 1928 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters and Headquarters and Service Company, 337th Engineer Regiment

Organized by July 1931 at Huntington, West Virginia

Ordered into active military service 20 July 1942 at Camp Swift, Texas

Redesignated 1 August 1942 as Headquarters and Headquarters and Service Company, 337th Engineer General Service Regiment

Disbanded 16 September 1944 in Italy

Reconstituted 19 November 1946 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters and Headquarters and Service Company, 337th Engineer General Service Regiment

Activated 2 December 1946 at Baltimore, Maryland

(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)

Inactivated 9 February 1949 at Baltimore, Maryland

Redesignated 8 June 1949 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 372d Engineer Construction Group

Activated 25 July 1949 at Des Moines, Iowa

Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1954 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 372d Engineer Group

Inactivated 28 May 1959 at Des Moines, Iowa

Activated 15 March 1963 at Des Moines, Iowa

Ordered into active military service 7 December 2003 at Des Moines, Iowa; released from active military service 3 June 2005 and reverted to reserve status

Location changed 17 April 2007 to Fort Snelling, Minnesota

Reorganized and redesignated 16 September 2008 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 372d Engineer Brigade

Honors

Campaign streamers

Unit Decorations
Meritorious Unit Citation, Citation awarded to the 372nd Engineer Brigade for actions in Afghanistan from November 2009 to September 2010.

References

External links
372nd Engineer Brigade Homepage
The Institute of Heraldry: 372nd Engineer Brigade
Article from Afghanistan
Schroeder assumes Command of 372 Engineer Brigade

Engineer 372
Military units and formations of the United States Army Reserve
Military units and formations established in 1928
926th Engineer Brigade (United States). The 926th Engineer Brigade is a United States Army Reserve combat engineer brigade. The unit transformed from a group size and returned from a tour in Iraq in late 2008. It is part of the 412th Engineer Command.

Subordinate units 

As of 2018 the following units are subordinated to the 926th Engineer Brigade:

 391st Engineer Battalion, in Greenville, South Carolina
 467th Engineer Battalion, in Millington, Tennessee
 841st Engineer Battalion, in Miami, Florida
 926th Engineer Battalion, in Birmingham, Alabama
 718th Engineer Company, at Fort Moore, Georgia

Lineage
 Constituted 17 June 1943 in the Army of the United States as the 926th Engineer Aviation Regiment
 Headquarters and Headquarters and Service Company activated 20 June 1943 at Richmond, Virginia (organic elements not organized)
 Inactivated 2 October 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
 Headquarters and Headquarters and Service Company, 926th Engineer Aviation Regiment, redesignated 19 December 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters and Service Company, 926th Engineer Aviation Group
 Activated 31 January 1947 at Wheeler Field, Hawaii
 Inactivated 16 December 1948 at Wheeler Air Force Base, Hawaii
 Allotted 10 March 1949 to the Organized Reserve Corps
 (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
 Activated 7 April 1949 at Montgomery, Alabama
 Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1951 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 926th Engineer Aviation Group
 Reorganized and redesignated 31 January 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 926th Engineer Group
 Ordered into active military service 21 November 1990 at Montgomery, Alabama; released from active military service 21 April 1991 and reverted to reserve status
 Ordered into active military service 24 February 2003 at Montgomery, Alabama; released from active military service 22 June 2004 and reverted to reserve status
 Reorganized and redesignated 17 September 2007 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 926th Engineer Brigade
 Ordered into active military service 5 March 2008 at Montgomery, Alabama; released from active military service 8 April 2009 and reverted to reserve status

Campaign participation credit
World War II
Normandy
Northern France
Rhineland
Central Europe
Southwest Asia
Defense of Saudi Arabia
Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
War on Terrorism
Campaigns to be determined

Decorations
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for IRAQ 2003–2004
 Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for IRAQ 2008–2009

References

External links

The Institute of Heraldry: 926th Engineer Brigade
Engineer Magazine Article

Engineer 926
Military units and formations of the United States Army Reserve
Military units and formations established in 1943
Lee Noble. Lee Antony Noble (born January 1958) is a British entrepreneur, car designer and engineer. He is the founder of the sports car companies Noble Automotive Ltd in 1999 and Fenix Automotive in 2009. He is also the designer of some low-volume sports cars, including the Ultima Mk1, Ultima Mk2, Ultima Mk3, Midtec Spyder and Ascari FGT.

Noble's designs have also been further developed beyond his own involvement, resulting in designs such as the Ultima GTR, Ascari Ecosse, Noble M400, Noble M600, Rossion Q1 and designs such as the Salica GT, which was never made. His style for sports cars is to start with a lightweight space frame, have a big powerful engine and an aerodynamic sports-racer body. Almost all the cars Noble has designed have been mid-engined.

In 2012 Noble was involved in the design of the Arrinera Hussarya supercar that will be produced in Poland.

Automotive companies
Noble started Noble Automotive after he finished his involvement with Ascari, a manufacturer of supercars with a high price and small market. He wanted to produce cheaper cars, and Noble Automotive set out to build a relatively affordable, fast car, with the aim of selling hundreds or thousands of cars per year. Noble does much of its basic manufacturing in South Africa. The core body/chassis assemblies are shipped from South Africa to England, where Noble installs the drivetrain, for the European market, and performs final tests.

Noble left Noble Automotive in the spring of 2008 and created a new company Fenix Automotive in late 2009, which was subsequently dissolved in late 2012.

Cars developed under Noble 
 (1983) Ultima Mk1
 (1984) Ultima MK 2
 (1986) Ferrari P4 replica
 (1987) Lotus 23 replica
 (1989) Ultima MK 3
 (1989) Prosport LM 3000
 (1991) Midtec Spyder
 (1995) Prosport spyder
 (1996) Ascari FGT
 (1999) Noble M10
 (2000) Noble M12 GTO
 (2002) Noble M12 GTO-3
 (2003) Noble M12 GTO-3R
 (2005) Noble M400
 (2006) Noble M15
 (2009) Noble M600
 (2011) Fenix GT
 (2013) Arrinera Hussarya

References

British founders of automobile manufacturers
1958 births
Living people
Mack (naval architecture). In naval architecture, a mack is a structure which combines the radar masts and the exhaust stack of a surface ship, thereby saving the upper deck space used for separate funnels and the increasingly large tripod masts used to carry heavy radar aerials. The word is a composite (portmanteau) of "mast" and "stack". It is a common design feature on post-World War II warships (e.g. the rebuilt Baltimore-class cruisers) and on some cruise ships.

The French Navy (Marine Nationale) used a combined exhaust stack and rear director mast on the Richelieu-class battleships in the late 1930s. The Royal Navy used this design feature on the 1944 Weapon-class destroyers and the subsequent Daring-class destroyers, and in the diesel-engined Type 41 "Cat" class and Type 61 "Cathedral" class frigates of the 1950s. It provided unbalanced and unattractive designs, which led to a reversion to separate masts and funnels in subsequent RN vessels.

The close proximity of exhaust fumes to delicate radio and radar equipment led to corrosion problems, making macks unpopular for later designs.

References

Shipbuilding
MAHRU & AHRA. MAHRU & AHRA are humanoid robots design and developed by KIST. Unlike other robots such as ASIMO, they can obtain artificial intelligence from certain networks. They made public appearances around in South Korea.

Features and technology

Form
MAHRU & AHRA stand at 150 cm and weigh 67 kg. They are powered by a lithium polymer battery (model 48V-20A) and networks. The colors are blue (for MAHRU), orange (for AHRA).

Abilities
MAHRU & AHRA can recognize moving objects, postures, gestures, its surrounding environment, sounds and faces. They can walk anyway, such as right, left, backward, or forward.

Specifications

Models

MAHRU-1
MAHRU-2
MAHRU-M
MAHRU-R
MAHRU-Z, updated to rotate its head, arms, legs, having six fingers, and a 3D camera.

References

External links

Bipedal humanoid robots
Robots of South Korea
2005 robots
Brough Superior Golden Dream. The Brough Superior Golden Dream was designed and built by George Brough in Nottingham, England, in 1938.  With its distinctive gold finish, this was to be the ultimate Brough Superior but production was stopped by the outbreak of War in 1939.

Development

Designed as a team effort by Brough, 'Ike' Hatch, and Freddie Dixon, the engine has two horizontally opposed flat twins one above the other and geared together, thus rotating counter to each other forming an H engine. Connecting rods from opposed cylinders were of the fork and blade type and thus shared a common crank pin.  All pistons moved in unison, that is to the left or to the right at the same time. The pistons could thus be counterweighted 100% yielding a perfect balance. Primary, secondary and higher-order sources of vibration canceled each other, as did the gyroscopic effects from each crankshaft.

George Brough described it a "flat vertical" engine.  The four cylinders were  equating to 988 cc, with the camshafts gear-driven. Further development work was done on the engine, reconfiguring it as  (998cc), with chain-driven camshafts. 
 The engine was a four stroke engine.

The frame was designed to accommodate the unusual engine and was welded together with a fully sprung plunger type springing for the rear wheel, unlike the cantilever swingarm suspension on the Brough Superior SS100. The forks were Brough Superior's "Castle" forks derived from a Harley-Davidson design, and many components such as the petrol tank, saddle and wheels were the same as standard Brough Superior machines.

The Dream had optional three or four speed transmission, manufactured to Brough's own design by David Brown Ltd. of Huddersfield. The final shaft drive had an underslung worm and pinion gear on the rear axle and the propeller shaft was enclosed in a tube.

Exhibition and pre-production
The Golden Dream was exhibited at the Earls Court motorcycle show in London in 1938.  Five Golden Dreams were produced during 1939 and another model was planned for exhibition at Olympia; but World War II was declared in September 1939 and the Brough works were turned over to the war effort, making components for Rolls-Royce. Brough Superior never returned to motorcycle production.

Surviving Golden Dreams
At least one Dream is running and is owned by  John Wallis (the chairman of the Brough Superior Club, Nottingham, England).  Two others are under restoration.

A Brough Superior Dream was on display at the British National Motorcycle Museum. Like many exhibits it was destroyed in a fire in 2003 but has since been largely restored, although it has never run, as there are no internals in the engine or gearbox.

See also
List of motorcycles by type of engine

References

Golden Dream
Standard motorcycles
Motorcycles introduced in the 1930s
BCL Molecular. The BCL Molecular 18 was a range of 18-bit computers designed and manufactured in the UK from 1970 until the late 1980s.The machines were originally manufactured by Systemation Limited and sold by Business Mechanisation Limited.  The two companies merged in 1968 to form Business Computers Limited - later a public limited company.  Business Computers Ltd subsequently went into receivership in 1974.

The company was purchased from the receiver by Computer World Trade, maintenance of existing machines was by a subsidiary of CWT called CFM, manufacturing was passed to ABS Computer in the old BCL building in Portslade and sales rights were sold to a team from the old Singer Computers by 1976 trading as Business Computers (Systems) Ltd selling the Molecular. BC(S) Ltd subsequently went public in 1981 to form Business Computers (Systems) Plc. Servicing and manufacturing was gradually taken over by Systemation Services/ Systemation Developments Ltd.  BC(S)Plc was eventually taken over by Electronic Data Processing (EDP). Amongst its users and service engineers it was affectionately known as the Molly.

Note that neither SADIE nor SUSIE shared any technology with the Molecular series.

External links
BCL Molecular 18 Minicomputer
BCL Susie Computer @ The Centre for Computing History

Minicomputers
18-bit computers
117 Squadron (Israel). The 117 Squadron of the Israeli Air Force (IAF), also known as the First Jet Squadron, is initially a training squadron for F-35I Adir fighter pilots, based at Nevatim Airbase.

History 
Before it closed in September 2020 after 67 years of service, the 117th was an F-16C fighter squadron based at Ramat David Airbase. The squadron was openend there on 17 June 1953 and operated Israel's first jet fighter, the Gloster Meteor, flying the T.7 (two-seat trainer), F.8 (fighter) and FR.9 (reconnaissance) variants.

In July 2021, Airforce Technology reported that the Israeli Air Force had re-established the 117 Squadron "First Jet" as a training squadron in the IAF's F-35I Adir division, based at Nevatim Airbase in the Negev. It will become an operational squadron as soon as there are enough jets arrived from the US.

References

Israeli Air Force squadrons