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List of Beam approach beacon system units. This is a List of Beam Approach beacon system Units of the Royal Air Force.

The first system to guide RAF aircraft safely down onto a runway was called the Standard Blind Approach (SBA) system and was trialled in the late 1930s. It was also being used by a few civil airports. By late 1941 the word 'Blind' was changed to 'Beam' as it was felt that blind did not give a reassuring feel to a system used when visibility was very low. The word Standard came from Standard Radio, the name of the company that made the equipment under license from the German company that designed it. However the equipment was also 'standard' fit on RAF aircraft. The change from Blind to Beam is evidenced in the two sets of Unit names in the tables below. 

There were no physical beams in the system at all, rather it relied on a heavily distorted dipole radiation pattern using a single transmitter. Instead of 'beams' it used a single heavily distorted toroid that was flipped left and right with a periodicity that simulated a morse code letter, the plane of equal field strength in this arrangement being mathematically equal to a line of zero width - a perfect 'beam' from an imperfect, cheaper, and simple radio transmitter. SBA was not automatic, the pilot flew the aircraft at all times.

The Beam Approach Beacon System (BABS) is an automatic radar landing system developed in the early 1940s but not used until much later when it replaced the SBA system.

Blind Approach Training flights

Beam Approach Training flights

Radio Aids Training flights

Other units

See also

Royal Air Force

List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons
List of Royal Air Force aircraft independent flights
List of conversion units of the Royal Air Force
List of Royal Air Force Glider units
List of Royal Air Force Operational Training Units
List of Royal Air Force schools
List of Royal Air Force units & establishments
List of RAF squadron codes
List of RAF Regiment units
List of Battle of Britain squadrons
List of wings of the Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force roundels

Army Air Corps

List of Army Air Corps aircraft units

Fleet Air Arm

List of Fleet Air Arm aircraft squadrons
List of Fleet Air Arm groups
List of aircraft units of the Royal Navy
List of aircraft wings of the Royal Navy

Others

List of Air Training Corps squadrons
University Air Squadron
Air Experience Flight
Volunteer Gliding Squadron
United Kingdom military aircraft serial numbers
United Kingdom aircraft test serials
British military aircraft designation systems

References

Citations

Bibliography

Air traffic control in the United Kingdom
History of air traffic control
Training units and formations of the Royal Air Force
Hyper-converged infrastructure. Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) is a  software-defined IT infrastructure that virtualizes all of the elements of conventional "hardware-defined" systems.  HCI includes, at a minimum,  virtualized computing (a hypervisor), software-defined storage, and virtualized networking (software-defined networking). HCI typically runs on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) servers.

The primary difference between converged infrastructure and hyperconverged infrastructure is that in HCI both the storage area network and the underlying storage abstractions are implemented virtually in software (at or via the hypervisor) rather than physically in hardware.  Because software-defined elements are implemented in the context of the hypervisor, management of all resources can be  federated (shared) across all instances of a hyper-converged infrastructure.

Design 
Hyperconvergence evolves away from discrete, software-defined systems that are connected and packaged together toward a purely software-defined environment where all functional elements run on commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) servers, with the convergence of elements enabled by a hypervisor. HCI systems are usually made up of server systems equipped with direct-attached storage. HCI includes the ability to pool like systems together. All physical data-center resources reside on a single administrative platform for both hardware and software layers. 
Consolidation of all functional elements at the hypervisor level, together with federated identity management, was promoted to improve data-center inefficiencies and reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data centers.

The potential impact of the hyper-converged infrastructure is that companies will no longer need to rely on different compute and storage systems, though it is still too early to prove that it can replace storage arrays in all market segments.  It is likely to further simplify management and increase resource-utilization rates where it does apply.

See also
 Converged infrastructure
 Dynamic infrastructure
 Intelligent workload management
 Software-defined data center

References

 
Virtualization software
Tonkin + Taylor. Tonkin + Taylor is an employee-owned environmental and engineering consultancy company. Its head office is in Auckland, New Zealand with offices in Australia, Malaysia and the wider Asia Pacific region. 

Services cover civil, environmental, geotechnical and water resources engineering.

History
In 1959, Ralph Tonkin established a laboratory testing and engineering consulting company Geotechnics Ltd, with technical input from Professor Peter Taylor of University of Auckland. In 1961, Ralph Tonkin and Don Taylor formed a partnership named Tonkin + Taylor. The partnership was active in many engineering projects in New Zealand and Asia, and founded an office in Malaysia in the 1970s.

In 1981, the partnership was restructured into a limited liability company, which has grown into an employee owned company.

Awards
 2014 Waterview Connection Project
 Year in Infrastructure Conference Innovation in Roads Award, awarded to the Well Connected Alliance (NZ Transport Agency, Fletcher Construction, McConnell Dowell Constructors, Beca Infrastructure, Tonkin + Taylor, Parsons Brinkerhoff and Obayashi Corporation)
 2013 Newmarket Viaduct Replacement Project
 ACENZ Innovate NZ Awards Gold Award
 NZ Contractors Federation Civil Construction Excellence Award
 FIDIC Civil Construction Excellence Award
 NZ Concrete Society Infrastructure and Concrete Award
 NZ Engineering Excellence Awards Transportation Infrastructure Award
 Roading Excellence Awards Supreme Award (Major Road Project)
 2012 Land Damage Assessment Team, Christchurch
 ACENZ Gold Award of Excellence
 2011 Rosedale Wastewater Outfall Tunnel, North Shore
 ACENZ Gold Award of Excellence
 Ingenium Excellence Award (Winner - Projects over $10 million)
 New Zealand Contractors Federation Construction Award
 New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards (Winner - Water Waste and Amenities Category)
 2011 Silverstream Landfill Development, Hutt City
 ACENZ Merit Award of Excellence
 Ingenium Excellence Awards for Physical Works (Finalist - Projects over $10 million)
 New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards (Finalist - Water Waste and Amenities Category)

See also
ACENZ
McKinlay Hendry Ltd v Tonkin & Taylor Ltd

References

Engineering companies of New Zealand
Employee-owned companies
New Zealand companies established in 1959
Jatco JF506E transmission. The Jatco JF506E/F5A5 transmission is an electronic/hydraulic five-speed automatic transmission for passenger cars and deployed in a variety of cars from Jaguar, Rover, Land Rover, Ford, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Volkswagen and SEAT. This gearbox is known as 09A / 09B on Volkswagen vehicles.

Gear ratios

Applications
2002-2003 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII GT-A
2005-2007 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Wagon GT-A
Volkswagen Golf Mk4, succeeded by the Direct-Shift Gearbox (DSG) based dual clutch transmission on the Golf R32
Volkswagen Jetta/Bora Mk4, with 1.8T, VR5, VR6 and TDI Pump-Duse engines. Final drive ratios: 4.17(gasoline) and 3.48 (TDI)
Volkswagen Sharan Mk I
Land Rover Freelander Mk I
2001-2009 Jaguar X-Type
2000-2006 Ford Mondeo Mk III
Ford Galaxy Mk I & Mk II
1999-2006 Mazda MPV
1996-2003 Audi A3 Mk I
1999-2005 Rover 75

See also
List of Jatco transmissions

JF506E
Norman Fenton. Norman E. Fenton (born 1956) is a British mathematician and computer scientist. He is the Professor of Risk Information Management in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London. He is known for his work in software metrics and is the author of the textbook Software Metrics: A Rigorous Approach, as of 2014 in its third edition.

Education
Fenton received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from the London School of Economics in 1978. He earned his Master of Science in 1978 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1981 at the University of Sheffield. At Sheffield he was the second research student of Peter Vámos. His doctoral thesis was "Representations of Matroids".

Career
Fenton was a postdoctoral fellow in the mathematics department at University College Dublin from 1981 to 1982 and the Mathematics Institute of the University of Oxford from 1982 to 1984. At the end of that period he changed fields and began publishing papers on structured programming with Robin W. Whitty and Agnes A. Kaposi. In 1984 he joined the department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at South Bank Polytechnic in London where he headed the Centre for Software and Systems Engineering research group. He began to publish on software metrics as well as program structure.

In 1989 Fenton moved to City University as a reader in software reliability, and became a professor of Computing Science in 1992.

In 1998, Fenton, along with Martin Neil and Ed Tranham, set up the company Agena Ltd in Cambridge. Fenton was CEO between 1998 and 2015 and remains a director. In 2000, Fenton joined Queen Mary University of London (School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science) where he works part–time as a professor. He is director of the Risk and Information Management Research Group.

Selected publications
Textbooks

 
 
 

Articles

References

External links
 Faculty website
 

1956 births
Living people
British mathematicians
Academics of City, University of London
Academics of London South Bank University
Academics of Queen Mary University of London
Academics of University College Dublin
Alumni of the London School of Economics
Alumni of the University of Sheffield
People educated at Ilford County High School
Perspective machine. A perspective machine is an optical instrument designed to help artists create perspective drawings. The earliest machines were built centuries ago when the theory of perspective was being worked out, and modern versions are still in use.

Timeline
 1510: Leonardo da Vinci's Draftsman drawing an armillary sphere shows an early form of perspective machine in use.
 1525: Albrecht Dürer, in his illustration Man drawing a lute, shows an artist using a perspective machine to create a drawing. The machine consists of a wooden frame with a taut string passing through it to represent the viewer's line of sight. Dürer built his second model of such a machine in the same year.
 c.1765: Scottish engineer James Watt designs a machine based on an easel, with a pantograph mechanism allowing the artist to trace an object using a sight arm and transfer the movement of the sight to a pen drawing on paper. Watt stated that his machine was based on an invention by a Mr Hurst, who lived in India.
 1763: Philosopher Thomas Reid uses a machine to investigate his theory of perception.
 1825: English inventor Francis Ronalds patents two perspective tracing machines.  One generated an accurate drawing of an object or scene in nature and the other created a perspective view of an object from drawings of the plan and elevations. Ronalds manufactured the machines and sold several hundreds of them.

References

External links 
 DrawingMachines.org - pictorial archive of mechanical drawing aids

Optical instruments
Indravati Dam. Indravati Dam is a gravity dam on the Indravati River a tributary of Godavari, about 90 km from Bhawanipatna in the state of Odisha in India. It is connected to the main Indravati reservoir via 4.32 km long and 7 m dia head race tunnel designed for a discharge capacity of 210 cumecs and terminating in a surge shaft. Currently it is the largest power producing dam in eastern India with a capacity of 600 MW.

Characteristics 
The height of the Dam is  and the length is .

History 
Prior 1947 Late HH Maharaja PK Deo had already envisioned the project, and played a pivotal role afterwards. The main purpose of the dam was Hydroelectricity and irrigation. The project was operating and maintaining by Govt. of Odisha and Water Resources Department. The dam was completed by Govt. of Odisha in 1996.

Hydroelectric Project 

The Upper Indravati Project envisages diversion of water of the Indravati river in its upper reaches into the Mahanadi river basin for power generation and irrigation. In addition to the power house, the project involved construction of 4 dams across the Indravati and its tributaries, 8 dykes and two inter-linking channels to form a single reservoir with a live capacity of 1,435.5 Million m3 and a barrage across Hati river in Mahanadi river basin.

References

External links 

 Indravati Power Station from Internet Archive

Dams in Odisha
Dams completed in 2001
Energy infrastructure completed in 2001
Hydroelectric power stations in Odisha
Gravity dams
2001 establishments in Orissa
Brockmore Classic Replicas. Brockmore Classic Replicas Limited was a British automotive manufacturer.

Company history 

The company from Brierley Hill, West Midlands took a project for Grand Illusions Motor Company. The production of automobiles and kits began. Their brand name was Brockmore, after Brockmoor in Brierley Hill. Production ended in 1994. The company produced about four replicas.

Vehicles 

The company offered replicas of the Triumph TR 2 and TR 3 models. The chassis and suspension were re-designed. Many parts were from Ford. Various motors types of Rover V8 engines from Rover were used to power these cars.

References

Bibliography 
 George Nick Georgano (Chefredakteur): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A–F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, , S. 199.
 Hole, Steve. A-Z of Kit Cars: The Definitive Encyclopaedia of the UK's Kit-car Industry since 1949. Sparkford: Haynes, 2011.

External links 
 Allcarindex

Car manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Kit car manufacturers
1993 establishments in the United Kingdom
1994 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England
Torana Gate, Malaysia. Torana Gate is a torana (a type of gateway) in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur. The gate is a gift from the Government of India to Malaysia, as a mark of continued friendship between the two countries. It was influenced by Hindu and Buddhist architecture of the Indian subcontinent.

History
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced the construction of the Torana Gate during a state visit to Malaysia in 2010. The Indian Ministry of External Affairs invited 16 firms for its design competition, and appointed architects Akshaya Jain & Associates to design the gate. The design is identical to the Great Stupa at Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh.

The gate was installed by developer MRCB Engineering Sdn Bhd on 20 August 2015. The Torana Gate was inaugurated on 23 November 2015 by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.

Design
The reliefs on the Torana Gate, though broadly derived from the carvings at the Torana Gates of Sanchi, are yet different and intended to portray Indian art in a contemporary manner, adapted to suit the locational context. A large number of decorative elements have been used on the columns and architraves including carved panels as well as sculpted blocks. The paved area around the Torana Gate, up to the piazza around the existing fountain, consists of patterned granite flooring. The pedestrian spine along the central axis is designed with a variety of geometrical motifs in varied shades of granite. The curvilinear ceiling of the Torana structure was designed with ribs running in both directions. These structural ribs, creating 24 coffers, support carved stone panels, which are square and have intricate floral carvings.

Gallery

See also

 India–Malaysia relations
 Torana

References

Buildings and structures in Kuala Lumpur
Monuments and memorials in Malaysia
Tourist attractions in Kuala Lumpur
India–Malaysia relations
Buildings and structures completed in 2015
2015 establishments in Malaysia
Chandrashekhar S. Jog. Chandrashekhar S. Jog is a professor in the department of mechanical engineering at Indian Institute of Science. He works  in the areas of Solid mechanics, Continuum mechanics, and Finite element methods. He has authored books on Continuum mechanics, and Fluid mechanics.

References

Living people
Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science
Mechanical engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Ryknield Motor Company. The Ryknield Motor Company, originally established as the Ryknield Engine Company was a short-lived motor car manufacturer of the early twentieth century. Based in Burton-upon-Trent in England, the company was formed by a number of prominent business men in February 1902. Ernest E. Baguley, who had apprenticed in the rail industry with Hawthorn Leslie and Company, and then W. G. Bagnall, saw the potential of the motor car, and in 1901, Baguley designed a steam-engine for a motor car. His employer at the time, Bagnalls, were not interested in the concept, so he left the company and joined the Ryknield Engine Company as manager in November 1902.

The company established a factory on Shobnall Road in Burton, and they started producing cars in 1903, offering both petrol and steam engines as options. The company primarily targeted the cheaper end of the market, and produced a 10 horsepower car, with options either as a four-seater, or a light delivery van. This was later supplemented with 15 and 20 horsepower models, and in 1905 one of the 15 horsepower cars was entered into the 1905 International Tourist Trophy by Arthur Clay, and was one of only eighteen cars to complete the endurance race. In late 1905, the company endured financial difficulties, and was eventually sold to Wilfred Clay, who had set up the Ryknield Motor Company in early 1906. In contrast to the cars that had previously been produced, the new company targeted the commercial market. The connections of the Clay family, along with the booming brewery business in Burton-upon-Trent, gave the company a good market for their trucks. They were able to adapt the chassis of the 10 horsepower car to produce a small, one ton, truck, while a larger, 8 litre, 35 horsepower model was manufactured for longer distance journeys. They manufactured an even bigger truck, with a 9.8 litre engine, and trialled a motor bus. However, the company was not particularly successful, and in mid-1910, the company was placed in receivership, and was sold to Baguley Cars, which had both Wilfred Clay and Ernest Baguley on its board, the latter as managing director.

References

Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England
Companies based in Burton upon Trent
Soquelec. Soquelec () limited is a Montreal-based company that focuses on sales and service of scientific equipment for applications in materials and life sciences. It is the Canadian distributor of manufacturers of digital imaging technology and accessories, such as Electron Microscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, X-Ray scanning and sample preparation. It is also a provider of laboratory consumables. Its sister company, Soquelec Telecommunications, specializes in the distribution of RF, microwave and millimeter-wave telecommunication components.

History
Soquelec was founded in 1974 by Jean-Pierre and Yette Slakmon. It has continuously operated in the Canadian market and has been involved in the installation of over 200 electron optical systems in universities, hospitals and private companies.

Upon the death of its founder in 2015 the management of the company has passed on Jean-Pierre's son Marc.

For over 35 years, Soquelec has been the exclusive distributor of JEOL (Japan Electron Optics Laboratory) in Canada, except between 2016 and 2021 where it distributed TESCAN products.

Representation
As of April 2024 Soquelec is the Canadian distributor of the following manufacturers:

Agar Scientific (Consumables, accessories and specialist equipment for types of microscopy)
Annealsys (RTP and CVD)
Bruker (limited to some x-ray products)
Gatan (CCD cameras, image filters, TEM sample holders, sample preparation equipment)
Haskris (water chillers)
IDES (time-resolved TEM), now a subsidiary of JEOL
JEOL (electron microscopes)
KUBTEC Scientific (Cabinet X-ray irradiators and imagers)
Nanosensors (AFM tips)
NanoWorld (AFM tips)
Protochips (In-situ Electron Microscopy equipment and consumables)
Quorum (EM sample preparation and cryo equipment)
RMC Boekeler (Ultramicrotomes and EM sample preparation equipment)
Spectral Instruments Imaging (In-vivo Optical and X-ray Imagers), now a subsidiary of Bruker

References

External links

Companies based in Montreal
Canadian companies established in 1974
1974 establishments in Quebec
Technology companies of Canada
BR Engineering BR01. The BR Engineering BR01 is a Le Mans Prototype built by BR Engineering in 2015. The car made its debut at the 4 Hours of Imola run by SMP Racing.

Racing History

2015
In 2015 SMP originally planned a full-season program in the European Le Mans Series. After missing the first round, in which the team ran the Oreca 03, the car with its livery was unveiled at Imola. SMP Racing entered a pair of BR01s at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and a single prototype at the 6 Hours of Bahrain.

2016
SMP Racing entered the 2016 24 Hours of Daytona, ahead of their planned 2-car assault on the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship season in 2016. Mikhail Aleshin took pole position in a wet qualifying session however the car fell back during the race, eventually finishing 38th overall.

2021

Four of the BR 01s are being raced in the Masters Endurance Legends. The car has claimed six class wins in the G2/P2 class so far, as of 13 June, as well as six overall podiums finishes.

Competition History

Complete European Le Mans Series results 
(key) Races in bold indicates pole position. Races in italics indicates fastest lap.

Complete World Endurance Championship results 
(key) Races in bold indicates pole position. Races in italics indicates fastest lap.

Complete IMSA SportsCar Championship results 
(key) Races in bold indicates pole position. Races in italics indicates fastest lap. (key) Races in bold indicates pole position. Races in italics indicates fastest lap.

References

External links

 SMP Racing

Le Mans Prototypes
24 Hours of Le Mans race cars