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Potez XVIII. The Potez XVIII was a French airliner from the early 1920s, a three-engine biplane carrying up to twelve passengers.

Design and development
The Potez XVIII airliner, displayed at the 1922 Paris Salon, was a development of the Potez X colonial transport. It was an unequal span biplane largely built of wood, though with metal engines mountings and other fittings, engine nacelles and tail surfaces.  The rectangular plan wings were fabric covered.  On each side, towards the wing tips a parallel pair of interplane struts leaned outwards.  Closer to the fuselage a parallel pair of V-form interplane struts formed a cradle for the outboard engines, mounted between the wings.  These, and the third in the nose, were Lorraine 8Bds, water-cooled V-8 engines, each producing ; cooled by cylindrical radiators hung beneath each engine nacelle. Ailerons with aerodynamic balances extending past the wing-tips were fitted on the lower wing only.

The flat-sided and -bottomed fuselage had curved upper decking, dropping towards the tail. Behind the engine cowling back to the rear of the passenger compartment the fuselage was plywood-covered, with fabric covering aft. Pilot and engineer/navigator/radio operator sat side by side in an open cockpit ahead of the upper wing, with an internal door to the passenger cabin. Each passenger had a window, and there was a central passageway between the seats leading to a toilet and luggage compartment at the rear. The empennage was conventional, with the tailplane mounted on the upper fuselage longerons.  The fin and rudder together were of broad chord, the rudder balanced.  The Potez XVIII had a conventional undercarriage with two pairs of underwing mainwheels and a tail skid. Each pair was mounted on two V-form struts with aerofoil section, duralumin forward legs and rear telescopic, shock absorbing legs.

Only one Potez XVIII was built. After its first flight on 5 December 1922, the flight test programme continued into the spring of 1924. It was bought by the French government but never put into production.

Potez XXII
The Potez XVIII was developed into the very similar Potez XXII, which differed chiefly in having more powerful, uncowled   Bristol Jupiter radial engines. It also had an extended nose, increasing the length by  and an increased maximum weight of . The lower-wing, balanced ailerons were replaced with unbalanced ailerons on both upper and lower wings. The type XXII competed in Le Grand Prix des Avions de Transport (Transport Aircraft Prize Competition), held in the autumn of 1923, though without distinction.

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1920s French airliners
Trimotors
Aircraft first flown in 1922
Biplanes
Ham Dowling. James Hamilton "Ham" Dowling (November 12, 1895 – January 28, 1986) was an American college football player and once chief engineer of the Florida State Highway Commission.

University of Florida
Dowling played for the Florida Gators of the University of Florida in 1915.

Georgia Tech
He then transferred to the Georgia Institute of Technology and played for John Heisman's Georgia Tech Golden Tornado. He was a member of the ANAK Society and Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.

1917
Dowling was a member of Georgia Tech's first national championship team in 1917, which outscored opponents 491 to 17.

Florida State Highway Commission
He was once appointed chief engineer of the Florida State Highway Commission in 1933, and served in that capacity until 1946. He was again chief engineer in 1954.

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1895 births
1986 deaths
American football tackles
Florida Gators football players
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Al-Ofouq-class patrol vessel. The Al-Ofouq class are four patrol vessels of Royal Navy of Oman as replacements for the  patrol vessels.

Following a competitive international tender in April 2012, ST Marine of Singapore won the USD703 million contract from the Omani Defence Ministry, beating off Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding and India's Goa Shipyard. The Al-Ofouq class is based on the  variant of the   currently used by the Republic of Singapore Navy.

Operational history 
RNOS Al-Seeb and Al-Shinas took part in the 13th edition of Indo-Oman maritime exercise ‘Naseem Al Bahr’ (Sea Breeze) along with the Indian Navy's INS Trikand, INS Sumitra and Dornier 228 MPA from 19–24 November 2022. BAE Systems Hawk of the Royal Air Force of Oman also participated in the exercise.

RNOS Al-Seeb also took part in the 14th edition of Indo-Oman maritime exercise ‘Naseem Al Bahr’ (Sea Breeze) along with the Indian Navy's INS Trikand and Dornier 228 MPA from 13–18 October 2024.

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Ships of the Royal Navy of Oman
Patrol ship classes
Korean Air Flight 8702. Korean Air Flight 8702, operated by a Boeing 747-400, departed Tokyo, Narita International Airport on 5 August 1998 at 16:50 for a flight to Seoul, scheduled to arrive there at 19:20. Bad weather, including heavy rainfall, at Seoul forced the flight crew to divert to Jeju. The aircraft took off from Jeju at 21:07 for Seoul. The flight was cleared to land on runway 14R with a crosswind component as the wind was from 220 degrees at 22 knots. Upon touchdown, the aircraft rolled off the runway. The aircraft slid into a ditch. The undercarriage was destroyed by the impact and the fuselage split. After the accident, the inside of the aircraft caught fire, but all the occupants were able to evacuate the aircraft.

Aircraft
The aircraft involved was a Boeing 747-4B5, registered as HL7496, delivered to Korean Air on 27 June 1996. Two years and two months old, it was the 21st 747-400 delivered to Korean Air and one of 27 in the fleet at the time of the accident. With line number 1083 and Construction Number (MSN) 26400, it had not been involved in any serious incidents in the time leading up to the accident.

The aircraft involved was the fourth of five Boeing 747s (2 -200B, 1 -300, this -400 and 1 -200F) to be written off by Korean Air in a span of 15 years.

Accident
Korean Air flight 8702 was a scheduled flight from Tokyo, Narita International Airport to Seoul, Gimpo International Airport. Due to poor weather, the crew diverted to Jeju International Airport. Upon landing the aircraft was towed to the main terminal and the passengers temporarily disembarked into the terminal. Two hours later the passengers re-boarded the aircraft for the 1 hour flight back to Seoul.

The aircraft took off from Jeju at 21:07 for Seoul. The flight was cleared to land on runway 14R with a crosswind component as the wind was from 220 degrees at 22 knots. Upon touchdown, the captain misused the reverse thrusters in a way the No. 1 engine failed to provide reverse thrust. Coupled with the fact the captain was confused with crosswind conditions and the first officer was preoccupied and not paying attention to the landing, the 747 failed to stop before the end of the runway. The aircraft swerved to the right and slid into a ditch at 50 knots with the fuselage splitting up.

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Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 747
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Aviation accidents and incidents in South Korea
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1998 in South Korea
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Li Xiaohong. Li Xiaohong (; born June 1959) is a Chinese engineer and educator, and the current President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). He served as the president of Chongqing University from 2003 to 2010, and was appointed the president of Wuhan University in 2010. In 2011, he was elected as a member of the CAE. As a researcher, Li's main interests are in the field of mining engineering. He made contributions to the development of water jet cutters in China, and established new equations about jet parameters and cutting effection, so the use of abrasive jet could be improved.

Life and career
Li was born into a rural family; he once served as a commune cadre in 1975. In 1978, he entered the Mining Engineering Department, Chongqing University, and was appointed the party secretary of the department after he graduated in 1982. From June 1989, he trained at UC Berkeley for 3 years. In 1993, he received his doctor's degree in engineering from Chongqing University. Then he served as a visiting scholar at UQ from March to August 1996. Li later served as the dean of College of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Chongqing University, from 1994 to 1998. He served as the president of Chongqing University from 2003 to 2010, and the president of Wuhan University from 2010 to 2016.

Research
Li began to develop Water Jet TBM Tunneling Machine when trained at UC Berkeley. There, he spent two years to make the machine capable of crushing stones which are extremely hard. He continued this research after he returned to Chongqing University. He finally developed a method of rock crushing, containing eroding coal rock with water jet, crack extension, washing away the debris, and cooling the cutting-tools.

Li and his colleagues studied the mechanism of abrasive mixing in self-oscillation flow, and measured its effects on main parameters, so they could develop the equations about jet parameters and cutting effection. Consequently, they could infer the relation between characteristics of wear particles and effect of cavitation in pulsed abrasive water jet. Based on this, they proposed a design standard of pulsed abrasive water jet nozzles.

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1959 births
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Engineers from Chongqing
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Members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Members of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Vice Ministers of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
Robot Warriors. Robot Warriors is a science fiction mecha role-playing game published by Hero Games and Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE) in 1986.

Description
Robot Warriors is a role-playing game where characters pilot giant robots into combat using a system of rules based on Hero Games's Hero System first used in the superhero role-playing game Champions. 

Players design giant robots use a variable number of Construction Points that can be used to purchase various systems as well as mass. Each robot might also end up with one or more Disadvantages during construction such as Limited Turning Radius.

Each player also creates a pilot character and chooses a number of skills for the pilot such as Electronics and Weapon Familiarity. 

Other rules cover robot battle and personal combat. The game includes guidelines for campaigns, how the technology works, sample robots and characters, and an introductory scenario.

Publication history
By 1986, Hero Games was having financial difficulties, and Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE) stepped in to help with production. Robot Warriors, a 160-page book, was designed by Steve Perrin and George MacDonald, with illustrations by Jim Holloway and Jason Waltrip, and was published in 1986 by Hero Games and ICE.

Hero Games/ICE published one supplement for the game, Robot Gladiators (1988), a 32-page booklet that described a campaign set in a sports arena where giant robots competed.

Robot Warriors failed to find an audience and was rapidly discontinued. Game historian Shannon Appelcline pointed out that Robot Warriors "had no chance against FASA's Battletech and Palladium's Robotech, both released around the same time."

Reception
In his 1990 book The Complete Guide to Role-Playing Games, game critic Rick Swan commented, "As giant robot games go, Robot Warrior is about as good as it gets." Swan admitted that the game "boils down to a bunch of giant robots pounding each other into scrap metal. There's not much in the way of subtlety, but it's quick, clean, and reasonably entertaining." Swan thought that although "role-playing opportunities would seem to be limited", he felt that the introductory scenario was "imaginative." Swan concluded by giving this game a solid rating of 3 out of 4, saying, ""Like all games of this genre, Robot Warriors doesn't have much to offer hardcore role-players, but for those who enjoy a good demolition derby, it's hard to beat."

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Hero System
Mecha role-playing games
Role-playing games introduced in 1986
Science fiction role-playing games
East Kowloon line. The East Kowloon line () is a proposed Hong Kong rapid transit line that would run from Diamond Hill to Tseung Kwan O New Town. The route would pass through the hilly Sau Mau Ping residential area, which is not directly served by any local railway service at present. The scheme was first revealed by the Hong Kong Government in the "Railway Development Strategy 2014", published September 2014. The project is related to the government-led redevelopment of the East Kowloon area as well as planned residential development in the Anderson Road/Sau Mau Ping district.

Overview
The estimated construction cost of this line is highest among all seven railway plans proposed in the railway strategy due to the steep terrain along its alignment. The estimated cost is HK$27.5 billion (approximately US$3.5 billion) at 2013 prices, making it HK$3.5 billion (US$450 million) per kilometre. Experts recommended the line begin construction in 2019 with a finish date in 2025. There will be five stations on the new railway, including four new stations and one interchange stations allowing connections to the Kwun Tong line.

Stations are planned for Choi Wan, Shun Tin, Sau Mau Ping and Po Tat, as well as the vicinity of large-scale new development projects including the Choi Wan Road and Jordan Valley development programme, the Anderson Road development plan, the Anderson Road Quarry development plan, the "Energising Kowloon East" programme, and so on. At the strategic level, it would serve as an alternative route of travel in the event of a stoppage on the Kwun Tong line, thereby enhancing overall network stability.

All stations would be underground. Sai Kung District Council suggested an additional station in the Hong King (Hong Sing Garden and King Lam Estate) area between Po Tat and Po Lam stations before leaving Tseung Kwan O New Town, meaning the government may take the suggestion into consideration.

As of 2024, construction has not begun while technical design proposals are still under consideration.

In 2022, there was another new proposal from the government with an "elevated trackless rapid system", with the route shortened to between Choi Hung and Sau Mau Ping, without serving Tseung Kwan O. On 3 January 2023, the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions said the government will wholly fund the construction of an elevated trackless rapid transit system in East Kowloon connecting Yau Tong and Choi Hung. The to-be-built Choi Hung East Station will be located next to St. Joseph's Home for the Aged, 100 metres away from the existing Choi Hung MTR Station.

References

External links
 Railway Development Strategy 2014, Transport and Housing Bureau, Hong Kong Government

Proposed railway lines in Hong Kong
Diamond Hill
Ngau Chi Wan
Shun Lee
Sau Mau Ping
Po Lam
Seaweed cultivator. A seaweed cultivator is a device which grows seaweed, usually in weekly or bi-weekly cycles. It is not to be confused with people who are seaweed cultivators themselves, usually performing manual cultivation of seaweed using large nets in open waters (mainly in Asian countries).

Seaweed cultivators (the devices) are just now becoming available to the public, mainly because of the LED (light-emitting diode) which has made low-cost, reliable, and waterproof illumination sources (especially in the red 660-nanometer spectrum) feasible. Seaweed cultivators are an offshoot of algae scrubbers, which were developed to filter aquariums. By replacing the aquarium with a reservoir of fertilized seawater, a stand-alone cultivator becomes possible, and even a desktop cultivator is possible if the size is small enough or if the reservoir is placed beneath the desk.

The type of seaweed that can be grown in a seaweed cultivator is currently limited to green types, mostly Angel Hair and sea lettuce, because other types such as Nori require more complex control of the water temperature and other variables. Angel Hair and sea lettuce, however, can be grown at home at room temperature.

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Algaculture
Seaweeds
Redbird Flight Simulations. Redbird Flight Simulations, Inc. is an American flight training company.

Founded in 2006, Redbird Flight started with a flight simulator built around a scrapped airplane fuselage - a Cessna 177 Cardinal, from which the name "redbird" originates.

The Redbird FMX is the largest selling simulator in history, with more than 320 units delivered worldwide as of 2012.

As of 2018, Redbird has sold and delivered over 1,200 aviation training devices to 30+ countries, more than any other manufacturer to date.

Products:

AOPA Jay - A self-contained simulator with a PC core, monitor, flight controls, and Lockheed Martin modified Microsoft FSX software.
RedHawk - An extensive overhaul conversion program using a  Cessna 172 with a diesel engine, upgraded avionics, new paint and interior.
Alloy - RD1 Rudder Pedals designed to mimic real in-flight pedal control.
FMX - Full motion Advanced Aviation Training Device with a single or multi-glass (or analog) configuration. 
Redbird CAPS - An add-on device that gives pilots the chance to learn how and when to deploy the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System.

References

External links
 Official website

Flight training
Education companies established in 2006
Virtual reality
Companies based in Austin, Texas
Engine power plant. An engine power plant is a power station in which power comes from the combination of a reciprocating engine and an alternator. 

Thanks to very short start-up time, Engine power plants can provide full output within few minutes (high flexibility) and ensure load balancing. 

As the share of electricity coming from variable renewable energy sources (vRES) and power supply variations are increasing in many countries around the world, grid stability is becoming a growing challenge requiring flexibility options like flexible generation, including engine power plants.

Engine power plants are also used as a reliable and efficient technology solution for:
 emergency reserve power plants
 cogeneration applications where both electricity & heat are needed, i.e. in industrial processes, for district heating, etc.
 transforming renewable gases (esp. biogas) into renewable electricity & heat

References

External links
 EUGINE: European Engine Power Plants Association

Power stations
Power station technology
Alain Monié. Alain Monié (born 1951) is the chief executive officer and a director for Ingram Micro Inc.

Education
Monié received his education in France. He earned his master's degree in business administration from the Institut des Affaires (HEC Paris) in Jouy-en-Josas. He was recognized with high honors for his studies in automation engineering which he pursued at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers.

Career
Monié began his career as a civil construction engineer in Mexico City, moving on to general management positions at Sogitec Inc., and was a controller for Renault. Monié joined Ingram Micro Inc. in February 2003 as executive vice president and was appointed president of the Asia-Pacific region a year later. From 2007 until 2010 he was president and chief operating officer of Ingram Micro. Following one year as CEO of Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL), a pulp and paper company headquartered in Singapore, he returned to Ingram Micro as chief operating officer and was named CEO of Ingram Micro in January 2012.

Personal life
Monié is a resident of Orange County, California, not far from the headquarters of Ingram Micro in Irvine.

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Living people
1951 births
French expatriates in the United States
Businesspeople from Orange County, California
Amazon (company) people
Aiyara cluster. An Aiyara cluster is a low-powered computer cluster specially designed to process Big Data. The Aiyara cluster model can be considered as a specialization of the Beowulf cluster in the sense that Aiyara is also built from commodity hardware, not inexpensive personal computers, but system-on-chip computer boards. Unlike Beowulf, applications of an Aiyara cluster are scoped only for the Big Data area, not for scientific high-performance computing. Another important property of an Aiyara cluster is that it is low-power. It must be built with a class of processing units that produces less heat.

The name Aiyara originally referred to the first ARM-based cluster built by Wichai Srisuruk and Chanwit Kaewkasi at Suranaree University of Technology. The name "Aiyara" came from a Thai word literally an elephant to reflect its underneath software stack, which is Apache Hadoop.

Like Beowulf, an Aiyara cluster does not define a particular software stack to run atop it. A cluster normally runs a variant of the Linux operating system. Commonly used Big Data software stacks are Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark.

Development 

A report of the Aiyara hardware which successfully processed a non-trivial amount of Big Data was published in the Proceedings of ICSEC 2014. Aiyara Mk-I, the second Aiyara cluster, consists of 22 Cubieboards. It is the first known SoC-based ARM cluster which is able to process Big Data successfully using the Spark and HDFS stack.

The Aiyara cluster model, a technical description explaining how to build an Aiyara cluster, was later published by Chanwit Kaewkasi in the DZone's 2014 Big Data Guide.
The further results and cluster optimization techniques, that make the cluster's processing rate boost to 0.9 GB/min while still preserve low-power consumption, were reported in the Proceeding of IEEE's TENCON 2014.

See also 

 Beowulf cluster
 Apache Hadoop
 Apache Spark

References 

Cluster computing
Parallel computing
José Antunes Sobrinho. José Antunes Sobrinho (born 1962) is a Brazilian civil engineer and energy executive who specializes in hydroelectric and other energy projects. He holds a degree from the Federal University of Paraná (1974) and a Master's degree in hydraulic engineering from the Delft University of Technology, Netherlands (1978).

History 

In 1986, Antunes was appointed Director General of ENGEVIX Engenharia S/A.

Antunes has worked on the Itaipu (14,000 MW), Tucuruí Dam (8,370 MW), Belo Monte Dam (11,233 MW under construction); Ita Dam  (1,450 MW), Campos Novos Dam (880 MW), Barra Grande Hydroelectric Power Plant (690 MW) and other hydro projects.

Antunes is also an active consultant and provides local support for UK-based Coopers & Lybrand. He helped drive forward the Brazilian energy sector restructuring program, which basically set the foundations for the way the industry's regulatory and legal frameworks would operate.

Antunes was a member of the teams consulting on the Itaipu (14,000 MW) and Machadinho Hydroelectric Power Plant (1,240 MW) projects.  He has also worked on projects in Asia (Vietnam, China and Nepal), Africa (Congo, Angola and Namibia) and South America (Peru, Mexico and elsewhere).  In 2009, he was invited to lecture at MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) on renewable energy in Brazil.

In May 1995, Antunes founded DESENVIX, the investment arm of ENGEVIX that focuses on the energy industry. DESENVIX currently generates the equivalent of 400 MW provided by clean energy sources and ongoing or planned hydro, biomass and wind energy projects that will provide around 2,000 MW.

Antunes is currently managing the INFRAMERICA consortium, which is building the new Natal Airport (Rio Grande do Norte) and modernizing and expanding Brasília Airport,.

The ENGEVIX Group also has many maritime construction contracts and builds hulls for Floating production storage and offloading platforms.

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Brazilian engineers
Living people
1962 births