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Blériot XLII. The Blériot XLII was a First World War French reconnaissance plane designed and built by Blériot.

Design
The crew was housed in a partially armored cabin. A small window was installed in front of the fuselage to facilitate observation. For reconnaissance, the observer lay horizontally on the cabin floor.

Development 
The Bleriot XLII was built in March 1913 for use as a reconnaissance and observation aircraft. It was a double mid-flight, equipped with an 80 hp Gnome engine. The Bleriot XLII passed the test cycle, but the military was not interested.

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1910s French military reconnaissance aircraft
XLII
Monoplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1913
Rotary-engined aircraft
Blériot XLIII. The Blériot XLIII was a First World War French reconnaissance plane designed and built by Blériot.

Design
The crew was located in the cabin in a tandem scheme. At the observer at the bottom of the window was added, providing a good overview. The Bleriot XLIII was a double mid-plane with a monocoque-type fuselage, equipped with an 80 hp Gnome 7A engine.

Development 
In March 1913, Louise Bleriot built the Bleriot XLIII a further development of the Bleriot XXXVI. The Bleriot XLIII could be used for long-distance reconnaissance, but mediocre flight characteristics did not allow Bleriot to conclude a contract for its mass production.

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1910s French military reconnaissance aircraft
XLIII
Monoplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1913
Rotary-engined aircraft
Richard Furch. Richard Oliver Furch is an American music engineer, mixer, and pianist.  He has worked with many prominent names in music, including: Usher, Prince, Boyz II Men, Macy Gray, Ruben Studdard, Chaka Khan,  India.Arie, and Tyrese, as well as Chinese recording artists, JJ Lin, Tanya Chua, Wang Leehom, Jolin Tsai, and G.E.M. amongst many others.

He has engineered and mixed music on multiple Grammy Award nominated and Grammy Award winning albums.

Furch attended the SAE Institute in Berlin where he began studying music engineering and mixing. He attended Berklee College of Music and earned his bachelor's degree in music production and engineering. Rather than returning to Berlin, Furch moved to New York where he began engineering at Sound On Sound recording studio where he worked with such acts as Outkast, Jay-Z, Usher, Edwin McCain, and Fountains of Wayne
Outkast won a Grammy Award for Album Of The Year for their album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below which Furch engineered parts of in 2003.

Product endorsements
Apogee
McDSP
Exponential Audio
Metric Halo
Arturia 
Sound radix

Billboard music charts recognition
Furch received Billboard Award plaques in recognition for his work on mixing Prince's, LotusFlow3r Record, released in 2008, which peaked at #1 for top R&B/Hip-Hop albums on April 18, 2009.

Albums mixed and engineered with Grammy Awards and nominations 

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|  || Tyrese "Shame" || Best Traditional R&B Performance || 
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|  || Tyrese "Shame" || Best R&B Song || 
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|  || Charlie Wilson "Forever Charlie" || Best R&B Album || 
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|  || TGT "Three Kings" || Best R&B Album || 
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|  || Chrisette Michele Better || Best R&B Album || 
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|  || Tyrese "Open Invitation" || Best R&B Album || 
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|  || Prince "Dreamer" || Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance || 
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|  || Chaka Khan "Funk This" || Best R&B Album || 
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|  || Usher "Confessions" || Best Contemporary R&B Album || 
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|  || The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir "Live...This Is Your House" || Best Gospel Choir Or Chorus Album ||  
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|  || Speakerboxxx "The Love Below" || Album Of The Year || 
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|  || Fountains Of Wayne Stacy's Mom || Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal || 
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|  || The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir "Light Of The World || Best Gospel Choir Or Chorus Album || 
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|  || Marcus Miller "M²" || Best Contemporary Jazz Album ||

Selected discography 
Source:

Music mixing in film scoring

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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Hamelin
German expatriates in the United States
German audio engineers
Audio production engineers
Berklee College of Music alumni
Engineers from Lower Saxony
CANT 12. The CANT 12 was a flying boat and training aircraft that was produced in Italy in the 1920s.

Design
The CANT 12 was a traditional center-shaped seaplane for the era. The hull was characterized by an open cockpit in an advanced position that ended posteriorly in a single-headed cruciform fletching and horizontal braced planes. The wing configuration was biplana, with wings of equal size connected to each other by a series of uprights and tie rods, with the lower one equipped with small floating balancers. The propulsion was entrusted to a single Isotta Fraschini V.6 engine, an air-cooled six-cylinder V engine capable of delivering a power of , mounted in a pivotal configuration and connected to a two-bladed wooden propeller fixed.

Development
The CANT 12 was developed in 1926 as a variant of the previous CANT 7. The prototype was built at the Monfalcone shipyard but after flight test results were unsatisfactory and the development program was cancelled.

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cant 12
1920s Italian civil trainer aircraft
Flying boats
Biplanes
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1926
CANT 13. The CANT 13 was an amphibious aircraft designed for use on Regia Marina ships in response to a 1925 competition.

Design
The CANT 13 was a conventional amphibious aircraft, a two-seater single-engined biplane amphibian with retractable undercarriage, made entirely of wood. The hull had an open two-seat side-by-side cockpit with an internal passage that allowed the second member of the crew to reach the two defensive positions, front and rear, both equipped with a machine gun. The equal span foldable wings were connected  by a pair of inter-plane struts on each side, braced by tie rods in steel cable, with the upper wing equipped with ailerons. The landing gear was manually retractable operated by the pilot. Propulsion was supplied by a Lorraine-Dietrich 12Db  liquid-cooled V-12 delivering , driving with a fixed-pitch 2-bladed propeller placed between the two wings above the hull on a tubular steel central supporting .

Development
In 1925 the Ministry of Aeronautics issued a specification for the supply of a new amphibious aircraft to equip naval units of the Regia Marina. The CNT took part in the competition with a project entrusted to the engineer Raffaele Conflenti.

Two aircraft were built and were evaluated by the Regia Aeronautica but due to changes in the plans of the General Staff, no mass production was decided, but they were employed by the Regia Marina for at least the following two years.

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cant 13
1920s Italian patrol aircraft
Flying boats
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1925
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Single-engined piston aircraft
CANT Z.516. The CANT Z.516 was a three engine monoplane floatplane designed in Italy at the start of  World War II.  It did not go into service.

Design and development
The Z.516 (Z denoting a Zappata design) was the result of a 1939 requirement for an improved version of the established CANT Z.506 reconnaissance bomber, which was a three engine aircraft. Work on the aircraft began in early 1940. The project was managed by the designer Filippo Zappata. It was decided to use the fuselage and power plant of a well-tested Z.1007 Alcione bomber for the construction of a seaplane. The first flight of the aircraft took place on 3 August 1940. However, the flight characteristics did not satisfy the Regia Aeronautica and work on the aircraft was stopped.

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Z.0516
Floatplanes
1940s Italian bomber aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1940
Liang Weiyan. Liang Weiyan (; 2 October 1929 – 29 December 2018) was a Chinese electrical engineer and expert in power-generating equipment. He was one of the key engineers who designed the water turbines of the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest power station. He also served as Chief Engineer of Harbin Electric Machinery Company and taught at the Harbin Institute of Technology. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1995.

Biography 
Liang was born 2 October 1929 in Beiping (now Beijing), Republic of China. His ancestral home was Xiangling County, Shanxi province.

After graduating from the electrical engineering department of Peiyang University (now Tianjin University) in 1951, he started his career at Harbin Electric Machinery Factory, eventually becoming Chief Engineer of the company.

In the 1970s, his design of a 125-megawatt water turbine generator for the Gezhouba Dam won a national gold prize, and he oversaw the manufacture of China's first 600-megawatt steam turbine generator using imported technology.

In the 1980s and 1990s, he was a leading member of the group of engineers which designed the water turbines of the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest power plant. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) in 1995, and was appointed in 2008 as head of the power equipment group of the CAE's Three Gorges quality inspection team.

Liang was the chief editor of several books including History of China's Electric Industry (Hydropower Equipment Manufacturing) (中国电器工业发展史 (水力发电设备制造业)), and An English-Chinese Dictionary of Power Generation Engineering (英汉电站工程辞典). He also served as a Ph.D. advisor at the Harbin Institute of Technology.

Liang retired in May 2015. He died on 29 December 2018 in Sanya, Hainan Province, at the age of 89.

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1929 births
2018 deaths
Chinese electrical engineers
Engineers from Beijing
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Tianjin University alumni
Academic staff of Harbin Institute of Technology
Three Gorges Dam
CANT 38. The CANT 38 was a proposed reconnaissance/bomber biplane flying boat developed by CANT.

Design and development
In the 1930s the CRDA tried to relaunch the CANT 21bis model commercially, the latest evolution of the original CANT 21, already modified to better adapt it to the needs of a modern military aeronautics. The project was again developed by the engineer Conflenti and provided for a rationalization of the equipment inside the hull maintaining the appearance and motorization of the model from which it derived. The new model assumed the CANT 38 company designation, but although official photographs had been distributed that depicted it, no prototype was actually built. The photo shoot was prepared only for advertising purposes exploiting the similarity of the future model with the CANT 21bis and reproducing one of the old models to which the original writing on the drift was replaced and replaced by a "38". The CANT 38 failed to collect any commercial interest and the company of Monfalcone decided to abandon its development.

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cant 38
1930s Italian patrol aircraft
Flying boats
Biplanes
CANT Z.504. The CANT Z.504 was a prototype reconnaissance biplane flying boat made by CANT in the 1930s.

Development
Since the 1920s the Regia Aeronautica evaluated the opportunity to equip some of its units with support aircraft. To overcome the difficulties of use in the presence of heavy seas, launch structures were installed, real and proper, on which was appropriately fixed the aircraft that was brought at a speed sufficient to allow take-off.

After using various seaplanes designed for civil use such as Macchi M.18, or more specific Piaggio P.6 and CANT 25, in 1933 the Ministry of Aeronautics on behalf of the Regia Marina, issued a specification for the supply of a new two-seater aircraft to be used in the roles of reconnaissance and hunting, and able to replace the previous designs and characterized mainly from a single-engine configuration. The performances required by the specifications concerned the maximum speed at low altitude, set at at least , the stall speed, equal to , a rise time that at full load allowed the achievement of a quota equal to  in 26 minutes, an autonomy at cruising speed of 6 hours 30 minutes and a range of action of .

The Z.504 flew on September 1, 1934, but lost out to the IMAM Ro.43 for the production contract. The Z.504 was later owned by the brothers Callisto and Alberto Cosulich, where it was presumably used as a training aircraft.

Design
The Z.504 was designed by Filippo Zappata, the successor to Raffaele Conflenti, chief designer at CANT. The aircraft was characterized by a biplane veiling, the only model of Zappata to use it, and by a central hull configuration with an aerodynamically well-groomed profile.

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Z.0504
1930s Italian patrol aircraft
Flying boats
CANT Z.505. The CANT Z.505 was a prototype trimotor transport floatplane built by CANT in the 1930s.

Development
In 1934 the airline Ala Littoria issued a specification for the supply of a new scheduled seaplane to be used on its commercial routes by sea. The CRDA took part in the competition with a project entrusted to the engineer Filippo Zappata who designed a low-wing monoplane, a three-engine with boot configuration, moving away from the central hull configuration typical of the CNT/CANT production until then.

The first flight took place on 10 July 1935. Tests of the aircraft revealed insufficient engine power, unable to provide design characteristics. The aircraft was also paid attention to by assigning the registration number MM.268 to it. Not having achieved good performance from the seaplane, the company decided to test the Z.505 on a conventional wheeled chassis. Held in parallel with the CANT Z.1011, tests showed that in this form the aircraft would clearly not cause any interest among customers. The Z.505 was eventually used as a mail-plane from 1936, having receiving the registration number I-ZAPP (in honor of its designer). In 1938, it was transferred to Comando Aeronautica dell Egeo where it was used as the personal aircraft of the governor Cesare Maria de Vecchi (changing the registration number to I-VACI), where the aircraft was operated until the summer of 1941.

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Z.0505
1930s Italian airliners
Floatplanes
Trimotors
Elroy Air Chaparral. The Elroy Air Cargo is an unmanned cargo aircraft developed by American startup company Elroy Air, intended to replace land delivery trucks on inefficient routes with unmanned aircraft.

History 

The San Francisco-based company was founded in November 2016 by David Merrill, CEO and Clint Cope, VP engineering. Elroy Air initially pursued the electric aircraft VTOL air taxi market, but turned to autonomous cargo aircraft to avoid the complications of passenger-carrying certification. In December 2017, the company secured US$4.6 million of seed funding, led by aerial mobility investor Levitate Capital.

By early 2018, a full-scale prototype had been tested at Half Moon Bay Airport, south of San Francisco. Its lift system—rotors, motors and controllers—was rigged on a truck-based testbed to verify the aerodynamic lift produced and the aircraft noise levels for urban operations. In early 2018 a subscale prototype was under construction to validate the aerodynamics and controls, with ground testing planned in early March 2018 and first flight by late March. The full-scale aircraft was forecast to be flown by late summer 2018.

In early 2019, Elroy Air raised another $4.6 million, giving it a total of $9.2 million. On August 14, the Chaparral made its first flight at Camp Roberts, California, completing a 64 second hover.The hybrid-electric propulsion system for beyond-line-of-sight testing should fly in the second half of 2020 on a second prototype. A further Series A funding round was required for serial production.

In January 2022, unveiled the pre-production Chaparral C1. Its cargo capacity reached , while its range was claimed to be .

Design 

The tandem-wing design employed in the air cargo role has a pusher propeller for forward flight, six propellers under twin booms for vertical lift and a pod to carry 150 lb (68 kg) of cargo under the central fuselage. The hybrid electric powertrain has variable-pitch rotors with a large diameter to turn more slowly, for redundancy and to reduce noise. Its 150 mile (240 km) operational radius is optimized for express delivery. Ground robots are planned to be employed for ground handling and one pilot would be responsible for an entire aircraft fleet.

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United States cargo aircraft
Zhu Yingfu. Zhu Yingfu (; born 12 July 1941) is a Chinese engineer and general designer of the Type 052B destroyer, Type 052C destroyer and Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning.

Early life 
On July 12, 1941, Zhu was born in Shanghai, China. Zhu's ancestral home is in Ningbo, Zhejiang.

Education 
In 1963, Zhu earned a bachelor's degree in Naval Architectures from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). In 1966, Zhu earned a master's degree from SJTU.

Career 
Zhu started his engineering career at 701st Research Institute.
In 1982, Zhu became a visiting scholar in at University of California, Berkeley, where he researched in the area of ship hydrodynamics.
In 2011, Zhu was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). On September 25, 2012, Zhu became general designer of Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning. By 2018, Zhu is a chief designer of Liaoning.

Awards
 First Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award
 Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award
 Science and Technology Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation

See also 
 Chen Bingde
 Liu Zhe, Captain of Liaoning.

References

External links 
 Chinese Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Corporation (CSIC)
 Zhu Yingfu will speak at Wanshan Forum in November 2018

1941 births
Living people
Engineers from Shanghai
Shanghai Jiao Tong University alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Chinese naval architects
Vitim radar. Vitim is a Russian project of a stationary long-range over-the-horizon radar of the UHF wave range by NIIDAR. Positioned as a means of continuous monitoring of the aerospace situation. Provides detection, maintenance and classification of ballistic, space and aerodynamic objects.

Determines the coordinates and motion parameters of ballistic missiles, warheads, AES and ADC, passing through the observation zone; classification of accompanied targets according to the signs of “BR”, “AES” (artificial earth satellites), “ADC” (aerodynamic targets). These are detection, tracking, determination of radiation characteristics, parameters of the trajectory and areas of incidence of active interference sources emitting in the working radar range of the Vitim radar, as well as the formation of typical messages and giving the consumer information about detected and accompanied targets and sources of interference.

References

External links 
 Vitim Radar , NIIDAR.

Russian military radars
Over-the-horizon radars
NIIDAR products
Early warning systems
Xu Qinan. Xu Qinan (; born 4 March 1936) is a Chinese engineer and general designer of deep-sea research submersible Jiaolong. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).

Biography
Xu was born in Shanghai, on March 4, 1936, while his ancestral home is in Zhenhai District of Ningbo, Zhejiang. After graduating from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1958, he was assigned to the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation.

He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering on December 19, 2013.

Personal life
Xu married Fang Zhifen (), their children and grandchildren live in the United States.

Awards
 First Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award
 Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award
 Science and Technology Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation

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1936 births
Living people
Engineers from Shanghai
Shanghai Jiao Tong University alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Chinese naval architects
Polythionates. Polythionates are oxyanions with the formula  (n ≥ 0). They occur naturally and are the products of redox reactions of thiosulfate. Polythionates are readily isolable, unlike the parent polythionic acids.

Preparation
Many members of the polythionates have been characterized: dithionate, trithionate, tetrathionate, pentathionate, etc.

These salts are often generated by oxidation of thiosulfate. For example, tetrathionate is obtained by oxidation of thiosulfate ion with iodine (reaction is used in iodometry):

More specialized routes involve reactions of sulfur chlorides with bisulfite salts:

Potassium pentathionate ion has been obtained from , sodium thiosulfate, and potassium acetate. Initially prismatic crystals of potassium tetrathionate appear, then lamellar crystals of potassium pentathionate, from which the influence of tartaric acid makes an aqueous solution of pentathionic acid.

Potassium hexathionate  has been synthesized by combining  and  in concentrated HCl at low temperatures.

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Sulfur compounds
Gyöngyös 33. The Gyöngyös 33 was the first sailplane designed in Hungary, making its first flight in June 1933. It set several national records, using ridge lift rather than thermal soaring.

Design and development

The Gyöngyös 33 was the first Hungarian designed sailplane and was named after its place and year of manufacture. It was designed by Zoltán Janka and built in the MOVERO (Aviation Section of Hungarian National Defence Association) workshops at Gyöngyös. His design target was to produce an aircraft that would out-perform the 1928 RRG Professor.
 
It was an all wood monoplane with a two-part wing built around a forward main spar and a rear false spar. The inner area of each part was rectangular in plan, tapering strongly outboard. The leading edges ahead of the main spar were plywood-covered, as was the whole wing at the inner-outer junction; the rest was fabric-covered. An aileron filled the whole trailing edge of each outer section.  The two parts joined at a narrow centre-section on a raised fuselage pylon and were braced on each side with a V-strut from the fuselage bottom to the wing spars at the inner-outer junctions.

The Gyöngyös 33's six-sided fuselage was formed by a wooden frame and was plywood-covered. The pilot had an open cockpit ahead of the wing leading edge with the wing pylon immediately behind him. A rubber-sprung landing skid below him ran from the nose almost to the trailing edge. The fuselage tapered rearwards to a cantilever empennage. The fin was small and ply-covered with a tall rudder which, like the all-moving tailplane apart from its leading edge, was fabric covered.

Operational history

The first flight took place on 11 June 1933. A fortnight later the Gyöngyös 33 slope-soared for 5 h 43 m, gaining  of altitude, a Hungarian  record. On 27 June it set a national duration record of 10 h 7 m. In 1934 it made a  flight.

The Gyöngyös 33 is now on display in the Hungarian Technical and Transportation Museum, Budapest.

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Aircraft first flown in 1933
1930s Hungarian sailplanes
Mitsubishi G7M. The Mitsubishi G7M Taizan (泰山, "Great Mountain") was a proposed twin-engine long-range bomber designed for use by the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1941.

The G7M was cancelled at the wooden mockup phase without ever reaching the hardware phase.

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G07M
1940s Japanese bomber aircraft
Mid-wing aircraft
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft