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Paraavis Pegasus. The Paraavis Pegasus is a Russian paramotor, designed and produced by Paraavis of Moscow for powered paragliding. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development
The Pegasus was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules as well as European regulations. It features a paraglider-style wing, single-place accommodation and a single engine in pusher configuration. Early versions were powered by a Solo 210  motor with a 2.5:1 ratio reduction drive and a  diameter two-bladed wooden propeller. Later versions feature a Cors'Air M21Y  motor and a  diameter two-bladed wooden propeller. The fuel tank capacity is , while later versions offer an option of . The aircraft is built in two versions, one predominantly from aluminium and the other from titanium.

As is the case with all paramotors, take-off and landing is accomplished by foot. Inflight steering is accomplished via handles that actuate the canopy brakes, creating roll and yaw.

Specifications (Pegasus)

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Pegasus
2000s Russian ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Paramotors
Paraavis Vityaz. The Paraavis Vityaz (Russian: "Витязь", English: "Knight") is a Russia paramotor, designed and produced by Paraavis of Moscow for powered paragliding. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development
The Vityaz was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules as well as European regulations. It features a paraglider-style wing, single-place or two-place accommodation and a single engine in pusher configuration. Early versions were powered by a Zanzottera MZ 34  motor with a 2.5:1 ratio reduction drive and a  diameter two-bladed wooden propeller. Later versions feature a Simonini Mini 2 Plus of  or a Simonini Mini 2 Evo of  and a two-bladed wooden propeller. The fuel tank capacity is , while later versions offer an option of . The aircraft is built in two versions, one predominantly from aluminium and the other from titanium.

As is the case with all paramotors, take-off and landing is accomplished by foot. Inflight steering is accomplished via handles that actuate the canopy brakes, creating roll and yaw.

Specifications (Vityaz)

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Vityaz
2000s Russian ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Paramotors
Roy G. Neville Prize. The Roy G. Neville Prize in Bibliography or Biography is a biennial award given by the Science History Institute (formerly the Chemical Heritage Foundation) to recognize a biographical work in the field of chemistry or molecular science.  The Roy G. Neville Prize was established in 2006 and named to honor scientist and book collector Roy G. Neville. Neville founded Engineering and Technical Consultants, Redwood City, California, in 1973. He also assembled one of the world's largest collections of rare books in the field of science and technology. The Neville collection,  including over 6,000 titles from the late 15th century to the early 20th century, was acquired by the Chemical Heritage Foundation (now the Science History Institute) in 2004.

Recipients
The following people have received the Neville Award:

2019 Helge Kragh, for Julius Thomsen: A Life in Chemistry and Beyond
2017 John C. Powers, for Inventing Chemistry: Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts
2016 Melvyn Usselman, for Pure Intelligence: The Life of William Hyde Wollaston 
2013 Mary Jo Nye, for Michael Polanyi and His Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science
2011 Michael Hunter, for Boyle: Between God and Science
2009 William Hodson Brock, for William Crookes (1832–1919) and the Commercialization of Science
2007 Michael D. Gordin, for A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table
2006 Robert E. Schofield, for The Enlightened Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Works from 1773 to 1804

See also
List of history awards
List of chemistry awards
List of prizes named after people

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American literary awards
Awards established in 2006
2006 establishments in the United States
Biography awards
History of science awards
American science and technology awards
Pilot flying. In commercial aviation with a two-person flight crew, the pilot flying (PF) is the pilot operating the flight controls of the aircraft. The other pilot is referred to as the pilot monitoring (PM) or pilot not flying (PNF). Before a flight departs, the pilot in command must decide who the pilot flying and pilot monitoring will be for the remainder of the flight, or for any specific phase of flight (e.g., takeoff, approach, or landing). Typically, the flight crew swap roles on the return leg.

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Jetpack Aviation. Jetpack Aviation is a California-based company that produces jetpacks and other personal aircraft.

Jetpacks 

The company was founded by Australian inventor David Mayman, who had previously worked in software but had a longstanding interest in developing a jetpack. In the mid-2000s, he began working with Nelson Tyler, an engineer and inventor in Hollywood who had previously worked on the Bell Rocket Belt in the 1980s. The pair began work on a backpack-sized jet that would takeoff and land vertically that would meet popular expectations of the science fiction concept.

Their first device was the JB-9, a carbon-fiber corset that straps to the wearer's back that burns kerosene to propel them for about 10 minutes, based on their weight and flight conditions. In November 2015, Mayman publicly unveiled the device by flying around the Statue of Liberty, including a pause and pirouette.

The company made its first sales to the military of a Southeast Asian country. The two JB-12s sold for $400,000 apiece. The company said the unnamed client was in the interest of dispatching medics for urgent emergency triage faster than a car or helicopter.

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Paraavis. Paraavis Company (sometimes styled as "ParAAvis") is a Russian aircraft manufacturer based in Moscow and founded in 1992. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of paramotors, paragliders, parachutes, powered parachutes and parafoil kites for kitesurfing, in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules and the European Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category.

The company draws its workforce from graduates of the Russian aviation technical institutes.

Products
Paraavis paragliders have been the choice of  several champions, including, Valeriy Rozov, the coach of the Russian parachute sport team; Igor Potapkin, the winner of the bronze medal in paragliding at the 2001 World Air Games, 2003 World Champion and winner of the Open Cup of Germany in 2003; Mihail Koz’min, 2003 World Champion in the PL2 class; Mariya Ryabikova and Vasiliy Rodin, who were Sky-surfing World Champions in 2003; Mariya Ryabikova and Viktoriya Demidova, 2004 World Championship silver medal winners; Dmitriy Ovodenko and Igor Kalinin, the Sky-surfing World Champions 2004. Additionally the company's paragliders have been used by the Russian, Latvian and Kazakhstan paraglider teams and the Russian Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

The company builds a line of paramotors, including the now out-of-production Paraavis Mirage and Paraavis Sova, plus the current production Paraavis Pegasus and Paraavis Vityaz.

The company manufacturers main parachutes as well as reserves, harnesses and parachute cargo systems. It has a range of powered parachutes, including wheel sets to convert paramotors into powered parachutes.

The kitesurfing line includes kites that are designed for both snow and water use.

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Aircraft manufacturers of Russia
Ultralight aircraft
Powered parachutes
Paramotors
Russian brands
Parachuting
Manufacturing companies based in Moscow
Meteoblue. Meteoblue (stylized as meteoblue) is a meteorological service created at the University of Basel, Switzerland. In 2006, Meteoblue was then founded as a spin-off company in order to serve customers especially in the area of agriculture as well as solar and wind power. It combines over 40 weather models and uses proprietary artificial intelligence to generate weather forecasts.

The impetus for the creation of this service came with the Sandoz chemical disaster near Basel in 1986. During the fire, health and safety services tried to get information pertaining to the wind direction in order to protect the population from poisonous and noxious gases. After receiving conflicting information from Swiss, French and German meteorological services – Basel is located at the tripoint of these three countries – researchers at the local university formed the "Institute for Meteorology, Climatology and Remote Sensing" intending to model the local weather situation more precisely. As this meteorological service did not yet have its own dedicated data center, weather predictions offered through the university's website were not available at all times, but the service soon grew into a favoured information source for alpinists, para-gliders, astronomers and farmers.

After the transition to a privately run meteorological company, Meteoblue was the world's first weather service to offer weather prediction in a graphical synopsis (meteogram) for any arbitrarily chosen location on Earth. 

Beside that, it predicts weather for several continents on scales not familiar from other weather services, e.g. Europe using a 3 km (1.86 mi) grid, encompassing an area containing Belarus, Greece, Portugal and Ireland, or sub-Saharan Africa using a 10 km grid. Both Non-Hydrostatic Mesoscale Models (NMM, developed by NOAA) and the NOAA Environmental Modeling System (NEMS) are used to predict weather. Weather service is still publicly available, supported by ads, on its website, and the university's meteorological research institute still links to Meteoblue's weather predictions.

In 2020, Asobo partnered with Meteoblue to generate and deliver accurate weather conditions to the users of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.

In 2024, the weather service Windy acquired a majority stake in Meteoblue.

References

External links 
 http://www.meteoblue.com web site of meteoblue

Meteorological companies
Meteorological organisations based in Switzerland
Information technology companies of Switzerland
MS Carolinian. For the first all-welded ship assembled with tack and service bolts, see M/S Fullagar.

The M/S Carolinian was the first entirely-welded motor ship built in the United States, and the world's first welded vessel constructed without perforating the watertight members for assembly. She was completed in March of 1930 in Charleston, South Carolina. Built by Charleston Dry Dock & Machine Company, she was a 226-ton tanker designed for coastal shipping. Miles L. Clark is a known owner, with Texaco as the operator (notice the insignia on her stack prior to launch). The ship took about nine months to complete from the time her keel was laid. As denoted by the prefix M/S, the vessel also had an internal combustion main engine. Welded construction and internal combustion engines are staples in modern shipbuilding, allowing the Carolinian to be one of the first truly modern merchant ships.

Richard F. Smith, the designer, devised the lock notch welded system for which Charleston Dry Dock & Machine was the sole licensee. The design consisted of steel plates with notches that allowed easy fit-up and welding. Only nine workmen were required to assemble the hull. This design saved one-quarter of the cost, and 85,000-lbs of rivets. The welding required a mere 8,000-lbs of welding wire by comparison.

During the shakedown cruise on March 8, she made 11.5 knots heading out to sea, beyond Fort Sumter. The success of the Carolinian's maiden voyage the following month, and two flawless subsequent dry-dock inspections spurred an "estimate" for six orders of similar ships in 1931.

On March 9, 1934, the Carolinian rescued four fishermen from a squall near Elizabeth City, North Carolina, the homeport of this vessel. She was under the command of Captain E. R. Outlaw.
The vessel was later purchased by Pine State By-Products of South Portland, Maine. It was converted into a barge later in its career, and remained in the Register into the early-1980s.

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Ships built in Charleston, South Carolina
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Welding
Alcherio Martinoli. Alcherio Martinoli is a roboticist and a full professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering where he heads the Distributed Systems and Algorithms Laboratory.

Biography
Martinoli received his PhD degree in computer science in 1999 at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) working under Jean-Daniel Nicoud. Martinoli did a post-doc with Rodney M. Goodman at Caltech, where he headed the Collective Robotics Group. In 2007, he joined EPFL as an SNSF Assistant Professor in School of Information and Communication. He has moved to School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2008 as an associate professor. He became a full Professor in 2024.

He is the recipient of a Swiss National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award as well as the 2001 KiTi prize for young Swiss-Italian researchers who have distinguished themselves in the field of science, art, or humanities, as well as a "Best Paper Award" at the 2006 Conference on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS)

Work
Martinoli's research interests are in swarm robotics, swarm Intelligence, and self-organization with applications to transportation systems and large-scale networks of sensors and actuators. Martinoli is widely recognized for his work on distributed odor localization, modeling and designing swarm robotic systems, and mixed systems consisting of animals and robots, which has been cited more than 5000 times.

Martinoli and his laboratory have also taken a leading role in various open-source projects affecting the robotics community at large, most notably the software Swistrack, a multi-object tracking system for single and multi-camera
systems, the Khepera III Toolbox for the Khepera III robot, and the e-Puck mobile robot in collaboration with Francesco Mondada.

References

External links
 Distributed Systems and Algorithms Laboratory at EPFL

ETH Zurich alumni
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne alumni
Living people
Swiss roboticists
Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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Peugeot Velv. The Peugeot Velv (Véhicule électrique Léger de Ville) is a concept lightweight urban electric vehicle presented in Paris on 26 September 2011.

Overview
The Velv's very short rear axle makes it closer to being a Three-wheeler.  It is a three-seater with overall length of 2.81 m.
The electric motor generates output of 32 hp (20 kW), for a top speed of 110 km/h.  Cruising range is 100 kilometers with 8.5 kWh battery capacity.

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Velv
Production electric cars
Velv
Qian Zhengying. Qian Zhengying (; 4 July 1923 – 22 October 2022) was a Chinese hydrologist and politician.

Biography
She was born in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province. Her father trained as an engineer in the United States before returning to China; some sources report that Qian was born in the United States. She trained as a civil engineer at Utopia University. Qian joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1941. She worked with the Red Army in northern China and was involved in projects on the Huai and Yellow Rivers. In 1949, she was vice-director of the Water Conservancy Department of the East China Political and Military Commission and Vice-Director of the Project Department for the Huaihe River Commission. From 1950 to 1952, she was president of East China Technical University of Water Resources (now Hohai University).

She was a member of the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Qian was also vice-minister and then Minister of Water Resources. She served as Vice Chairperson of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference for the 7th, 8th and 9th national committees. In 1994, she was elected the sixth president of the Red Cross Society of China. In 1997, she was elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and, in 1998, received the Technology Engineering of China prize.

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Chinese Communist Party politicians from Zhejiang
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Jian Xu. Jian (Jane) Xu is a software engineer from China. She has served as engineer at IBM and as the chief technology officer (CTO) of China Systems and Technology Labs at IBM.

Biography 
Xu was born in Hong Kong and was raised in Shanghai. She left Shanghai to pursue her education in the United States in 1982 and saw how computers were impacting the lives of people. Xu attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where she graduated with a masters in computer science in 1986. She attended the University of Southern California and received her PhD in computer science in 1990.

Shortly after earning her doctorate, she joined the IBM Storage Systems Division and then went on to become a technical leader for the IBM Software Group from 1995 to 2000. She was an executive assistant at the IBM Almaden Research Center in 2001 and then went on to working at the IBM Systems and Technology Group in 2002. Her work at IBM Systems and Technology development in China involves developing new ways to manage energy use, "environmental improvement and multicore technology." Xu was elected to the IBM Academy and has held the highest non-executive position an engineer can hold at the company. Xu has contributed to several "IBM innovations" while working for the company, including the Digital Library, Net.Data, DB2 XML enablement, Information Lifecycle Management, grid storage and autonomic storage management.

In 2008, she was inducted into the Women In Technology Hall of Fame. She has also received three IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards and holds 15 US patents on her work.

References

External links 
 Jian Xu: WITI Hall of Fame 2008 Induction Video

Chinese women engineers
Chinese software engineers
University of Southern California alumni
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni
IBM employees
21st-century Chinese women scientists
21st-century Chinese women
21st-century Chinese people
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Paramania. Paramania is a British aircraft manufacturer based in London. The company was founded by powered paraglider competition pilot and light aircraft designer Mike Campbell-Jones in Wales, UK back in 1994 and later relocated to France. It specializes in the design and manufacture of reflex wings for powered paragliding. Years of painstaking R&D, countless prototypes and thousands of hours of testing were needed to bring the reflex profile into reality. Changing the sport of paramotoring and paragliding forever. Suddenly speed and stability was possible with a ‘soft wing’. Some even use the term ‘rigid wing’ thanks to this amazing advancement in wing design that compared to a standard paraglider feels much safer.

As well as pioneering the reflex wing Mike also produced paramotors for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules and the European microlight category.

Originally the company was established by Campbell-Jones and when manufacturing became too costly in the UK it was decided to collaborate with Dudek Paragliding of Bydgoszcz, Poland in producing paragliders including Campbell-Jones' Reflex wing.

Prior to that Campbell-Jones' designs were produced and marketed by Reflex Wings Ltd & Eagle Flight Factory.

Other collaborations with Ozone Paragliders, GIN Paragliders and a handful of other companies lead to the widespread use of reflex profiles.

By 2015 Paramania was specializing exclusively in the design and production of wings for powered paragliding and was producing the Paramania GTS, GTX, Revo and  tandem Rokit wings.

Thanks to Mike Campbell-Jones the reflex wing profile for ram-air paraglider wings was born. Improving safety and stability of the modern day ram-aim tenfold allowing more people to feel safe while flying a paramotor which was a huge factor that helped increase the acceptance and popularity of powered paragliding.

Reflex wings are now used by almost every paraglider manufacturer, especially for paramotor and speed flying use.

Aircraft

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Aircraft manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Ultralight aircraft
Paramotors
Blauwe Meer. The Blauwe Meer (Dutch for "blue lake") is an artificial lake, more precisely an excavation lake, southeast of Hoogersmilde in the province of Drenthe, Netherlands.

In 1905, Roelfsema, a Groningen-based entrepreneur opened a  sand-lime brick factory at Hoogersmilde, producing a cheaper alternative to traditional fired brick. The Blauwe Meer was formed by quarrying the sand needed for the brick. It takes its name from glauconite that, along with its depth, gives its water a blue-green tint. Today it used for bathing, with controlled water quality.

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Artificial lakes of the Netherlands
Quarries
Nano/Bio Interface Center. The Nano/Bio Interface Center is a Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at the University of Pennsylvania.  It specializes in bionanotechnology, combining aspects of life sciences and engineering, with a particular focus in biomolecular optoelectronics and molecular motions, including developing new scanning probe microscopy techniques. It offers a master's degree in nanotechnology. The center was established in 2004 with a US$11.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation, and received an additional $11.9 million grant in 2009. By 2013, it had constructed a new facility, the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology.

Award for Research Excellence in Nanotechnology
The Award for Research Excellence in Nanotechnology is given by the Nano/Bio Interface Center each year to an outstanding researcher in nanotechnology. The award is given each year at the center's NanoDay outreach event.

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Nanotechnology institutions
University of Pennsylvania
Napaleonas Kitkauskas. Kazys Napoleonas Kitkauskas (born 1931) is a Lithuanian restoration architect, construction engineer,  and cultural activist.

Awards
1990: Lithuanian National Prize
1995: Officer's Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
1999: Commander's Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas

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Living people
Lithuanian architects
Lithuanian engineers
Date of birth missing (living people)