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Tapanee Aviation. Tapanee Aviation, Inc. is a Canadian aircraft manufacturer based in Mont-Saint-Michel, Quebec. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of STOL light aircraft in the form of plans and kits for amateur construction.

Tapanee Aviation began producing wing replacement kits for the Zenith STOL CH 701 featuring retractable leading-edge slats. Later the company designed a new fuselage to go with the wings, which became the Tapanee Pegazair-80 and the development Tapanee Pegazair-100. Later the two-seat Tapanee Levitation 2 and four-seat Tapanee Levitation 4 models were added, although the Levitation 2 is no longer offered.

Aircraft

References

External links

Aircraft manufacturers of Canada
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Custom Flight. Custom Flight Ltd is a Canadian aircraft manufacturer based in Tiny, Ontario that was founded by Morgan Williams. Its address was formerly Perkinsfield, Ontario in the late 1990s. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of light aircraft in the form of kits for amateur construction and ready-to-fly light-sport aircraft.

Williams had rebuilt Piper PA-18 Super Cubs before, but thought that the design could be improved upon and so he created a fresh design that incorporated the best of the Super Cub and corrected its deficiencies. This aircraft was marketed as the Custom Flight North Star with at least 24 examples having been flown by 2016.

The Custom Flight Lite Star is a smaller, lighter aircraft for the light-sport aircraft market, although as of September 2014, the design does not appear on the Federal Aviation Administration's list of approved special light-sport aircraft.

The company also provides general computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing services as well as powder coating.

Aircraft

References

External links

Aircraft manufacturers of Canada
Light-sport aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Werner Kutzsche. Werner Kutzsche (14 May 1911 – 1 February 2000) was a German engineer, who was known for his work in the fields of radio-frequency engineering and electroacoustics. 

Kutzsche was born in Niederlößnitz near Radebeul. He was Professor and Director of the Institute for radio-frequency engineering and electroacoustics at the Hochschule für Elektrotechnik Ilmenau from 1957 and 1958, respectively, and Professor of information technology at the same institution from 1969.

He received an honorary doctorate at the Hochschule für Verkehrswesen in 1966, received the National Prize of East Germany in 1968, became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in 1974 and received the Humboldt Medal in Gold in 1976. He died in Dresden, aged 88.

References

External links
Werner Kutzsche, Stadtwiki Dresden

1911 births
2000 deaths
People from Radebeul
People from the Kingdom of Saxony
East German scientists
Engineers from Saxony
Recipients of the National Prize of East Germany
John Fisher (biomedical engineer). John Fisher, CBE, FREng, FMedSci is a British biomedical engineer who was director of the Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering until he stepped down from the role in summer 2016. He remains professor of mechanical engineering and deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Leeds.

Fisher graduated from the University of Birmingham with a BSc in physics in 1976.  He invented the revolutionary ceramic-on-metal hip replacement. He is leading the research initiative "50 active years after 50", which is investigating tissue-regeneration technology and developing new medical devices and therapies.

Fisher was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to biomedical engineering.  He was awarded the honorary degree of DEng by the University of Birmingham in 2013. Fisher is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine, of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Fisher has published over four hundred peer-reviewed papers and won over £100 million of grant funding.

References

Living people
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Academics of the University of Leeds
Alumni of the University of Leeds
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
British bioengineers
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)
Biomedical engineers
Fellows of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Fellows of the Biomedical Engineering Society
NIHR Senior Investigators
Year of birth missing (living people)
List of commercial jet airliners. The following is the list of purpose-built passenger jet airliners. It excludes turboprop and reciprocating engine powered airliners. It also excludes business jets and aircraft designed primarily for the transportation of air cargo. In addition it excludes military aircraft of all types, even those that are/were developed from or are/were based on the passenger airliners listed.

Currently in production

Planned

Out of production

Historical

See also

 List of regional airliners

Notes

References

Bibliography 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Lists of aircraft by power source
Lists of aircraft by role
Airliners
Steve Punter. Steve Punter (born 1958 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Toronto-based programmer and media personality.

Punter is noted for his work with Commodore microcomputers.  He created WordPro, the first major word processor for the Commodore PET and Commodore 64 computers.  He is also the designer of the Punter binary file transfer protocols which bear his name. He wrote the PunterNet networked BBS program in the late 1980s.

In the 1980s Punter designed and operated the bulletin board system (BBS) for the Toronto PET Users Group. He was an occasional speaker at the World of Commodore expos, and is featured in the film BBS: The Documentary.

He is an expert on cell phones and cell phone network coverage, in which capacity he has made occasional network TV appearances since the early 2000s.

See also 
 Punter protocol

References

External links

Steve Punter at the Personal Computer Museum

1958 births
Commodore people
Computer programmers
Living people
People from Toronto
Belite Aircraft. Belite Aircraft was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Wichita, Kansas and founded by James and Kathy Wiebe in 2009. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft in the form of  kits for amateur construction and ready-to-fly complete aircraft under the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules.

The company was formed to produce the Belite Aircraft Superlite, a derivative of the Kitfox Lite single-seat ultralight design. Belite extensively redesigned the aircraft to incorporate carbon fibre wings, struts, spars and ribs, lowering the empty weight to . They "...acquired the production rights to a previously designed aircraft, the Kitfox Lite" and they "...acquired the tooling, existing parts and manufacturing rights to the aircraft in March of 2009. As a condition of the transaction, they agreed to rebrand the airplane to prevent any confusion with the larger, two-place light sport Kitfox".

In January 2010, at the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Florida, the company debuted two variants of the company's initial Belite 254: its "easy-to-land" tricycle-geared Trike, and its "higher performance" Superlite, a lighter-weight, higher-powered "STOL" (short takeoff and landing) version.

In 2013 the company flew the floatplane version of its new Belite Ultra Cub design, designated the Belite Sealite.

On 6 June 2019, the Belite facility was destroyed by fire and the company ceased operating.

Aircraft

References

External links

Official website archives on Archive.org

Aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Patagón. The "Patagón" tank is a light tank developed in Argentina during the early 2000s, that was expected to enter service with the Argentine Army. It is based on a SK-105 Kürassier chassis with a refurbished AMX-13 turret. The project was cancelled in late 2008 after five tanks were converted.

Development 

In 2003 the Argentine Army defined goals for increasing its capabilities, among them nationalizing the manufacturing of its equipment; the VC SK-105 "Patagón" tank upgrade project was part of that effort. It was planned to convert and upgrade up to 40 vehicles at an expected cost of USD 23,4 million in the period 2005-2009; these vehicles were going to be assembled in Comodoro Rivadavia and provided to the army units based in Patagonia.

The vehicle is composed of a SK-105 Kürassier chassis which mounts a refurbished FL-12 oscillating turret armed with a 105 mm gun, obtained from obsolete AMX-13 tanks. Both vehicles were in service with the Argentine Army in the early 2000s. Most of the Patagón technical specifications are similar to the SK-105.

The Patagón prototype was unveiled on 22 November 2005; however the project was cancelled in late 2008, as it was considered uneconomical.

Production 
As of late 2014 four units have been completed, in addition to the prototype unveiled in 2005.

Operators 
 Argentine Army

See also 
 Nahuel DL 43 – Medium tank developed by Argentina during the Second World War.
 Tanque Argentino Mediano - Medium tank developed by Argentina during the 1970s, in use by the Argentine Army since the early 1980s.

Footnotes

References

Notes

Sources 
Online
 Patagón: el tanque de fabricación argentina que fue presentado ayer - DERF Agencia Federal de Noticias, November 2005  Online article about the unveiling of the Patagón prototype 
 Argentine Army tank assembly plant in Comodoro - MercoPress, November 2005 Online article about the unveiling of the Patagón prototype and production plans in Comodoro Rivadavia
 Argentina abandona el proyecto de blindado Patagón – Infodefensa, December 2008 Online article about the cancellation of the Patagón project 
Bibliographical

Further reading 
 
 Argentina: Ejército presenta prototipo del tanque "Patagón" - EMOL, Santiago (Chile), 2005-Nov-22 (accessed 2014-12-29)

External links 
 News of prototype unveiling - Argentine Army official website, November 2005 
 of prototype unveiling – Argentine Army official website, November 2005 

Post–Cold War light tanks
Military vehicles introduced in the 2000s
Vehicles introduced in 2005
Tanks of Argentina
Tanks with autoloaders
National Design Centre. The National Design Centre of Singapore is located in the arts, cultural, learning and entertainment district of Bras Basah–Bugis. The complex is a focal point for all things design in Singapore and a space where designers and businesses can exhibit their products, exchange ideas, and even work. It also invites the public to learn about design through its exhibitions and programmes.

The centre has two galleries and houses three design labs – IDA Labs, the Materials Design Lab, and the Prototyping Lab.

The NDC occupies the 120-year-old premises of the former St Anthony's Convent. The development of the NDC involved the restoration and adaptive reuse of the conserved buildings, consisting of three pre–World War II Art Deco blocks and one post-war modern block.

The NDC is also home to the DesignSingapore Council, which was formed in 2003 as the national agency for design under the Economic Development Board. The Council develops the design sector, and helps Singapore to use design for innovation and growth, making lives better.

References

External links

DesignSingapore Council
Ministry of Communications and Information
IDA Labs Programmes

2014 establishments in Singapore
Event venues in Singapore
Design institutions
Tourist attractions in Singapore
Hans Mezger. Hans Mezger (18 November 1929 – 10 June 2020) was a German automotive engineer well known for his work at Porsche.

Career
Mezger was born in Besigheim, in Württemberg, Germany. He graduated from the Stuttgart Technical University in 1956 with a Diploma of Engineering degree, and went straight to work at Porsche's Works 1 development department. His first project was to work on the valve train of the Fuhrmann-designed Carrera engine. In 1959 he moved to the design department to work on the type 753 flat-eight engine for the Porsche 804 Formula 1 car.

Over the next 35 years he took part in the 1960s F1 programme, undertook design leadership for the first Porsche 911 production engine and led the famed 1960s Race Design office that turned out the 917s. Mezger led Porsche's development of turbocharging with the  917/30 and its application to the 911 Turbo.

Mezger was responsible for the Porsche-made TAG Turbo engine from the mid-1980s, which won multiple championships in Formula One in the McLaren MP4/2 chassis.

He retired in 1994.

Mezger died on June 10, 2020, at the age of 90.

References

Porsche and Me: Hans Mezger, Autobiography with Peter Morgan. 2011. 978-1906712082

1929 births
2020 deaths
People from Besigheim
People from the Free People's State of Württemberg
German automotive engineers
Porsche people
Engineers from Baden-Württemberg
OpenStructures. OpenStructures is an open source modular construction model based on a shared geometrical grid, called the OS grid. It was conceived by designer Thomas Lommée, and first demonstrated at the Z33, a house for contemporary art. According to Lommee, the OpenStructures project explores the possibility of a modular system where "everyone designs for everyone." OpenStructures is developing a database where anyone can share designs which are in turn available for download by the public. Each component design in the OS system will feature previously designed OS parts that were used to create it. In addition, each part will feature component designs that can be made from it.

The OpenStructures model includes large and small scale manufacturers as well as craftsmen. They are invited to create their own designs according to the OS standard for sale on the market, which can in turn be fixed or disassembled at their end of life and made into new products.

Grid 

The OpenStructures grid is built around a square of  4 x 4 cm and is scalable.  The squares can be further subdivided or put together to form larger squares, without losing inter-compatibility. The image shows nine complete squares of each 4x4 cm put together. 

Designers use the OS grid to determine dimensions, assembly points, and interconnecting diameters. This allows parts that were not originally from the same design to be used together in a new design.

Scales
OpenStructures works at several scales, and analogies are made to biological systems including (from smallest to biggest):

 Parts, like body tissues.
 Components, like organs, formed by the functional grouping together of multiple tissues. An example is a motor.
 Structures, like a group of related organs in an organ system. Here, different components are composed with frames and joints, such as a bicycle.
 Superstructures, like organisms, can be understood as the whole hierarchical assembly of different structures that together function as a stable whole which has the capacity to grow and develop. Example are houses or electric vehicles.

Open architecture

One of the research areas of OpenStructures is architecture. Architects of the Brussels Cooperation Collective have worked on the subject.

Autarchitecture (, ) is based in OpenStructures and proposes flexible constructions that can adapt over time.

Open smart brick elements and buildings can be based on OpenStructures.

Other uses
Fab lab Academy had been building several beehives making use of the OpenStructures system to make them more sustainable.

See also

References

External links
 
 
 
 
 Open Structures: Thomas Lommee at TEDxEutropolis
 
 
  at the P2P Foundation
 

Open design
Open-source hardware
Modular design
Computer-aided design
Contextual application design. Contextual application design in digital media is the adaptation of the contextual design process developed by Hugh Beyer and Karen Holtzblatt, in the mobile software space, taking advantage of the measurability of the media, context awareness technologies in mobile devices, aggregation and analytics systems, to create a user-centered design process where developers aggregate data from users' real-world behavior and patterns, and applying these findings into a final product.

Uses and adaptations 

Contextual application design has primarily been used to create mobile applications that may deliver valuable insights based on cross referencing digital content with physical context, such as the experience delivered by Google Now. Another implementation is to create applications with a user interface that is reactive to context using context-sensitive user interface. These methods have also been implemented for software, and parts of contextual design have been adapted for use as a usability evaluation method.

Process overview 

The contextual design process consists of the following: contextual inquiry, data consolidation and analytics, visioning, storyboarding, user environment design, and prototyping.

Collecting data – contextual inquiry 

Contextual inquiry is a field data collection technique used to capture detailed information about how users of a product interact with the product in their normal environment. In mobile applications, a key aspect of the technique is detailed logging of their physical environment factors (factors), typically achieved by logging mobile sensor data or data from a contextual awareness SDK, combined with their in-app activity and interaction. Key takeaways from the technique are to learn what users actually do, why they do it that way and when.

Data analytics 

The purpose of the data analysis is to reveal patterns and the structure across distinct interactions. A contextual data analytics collects data logs, events and context awareness parameters and streams them into an easy to process database which may be queried to provide insights. A typical example would be the system implemented by Sensiya Analytics.

Visioning 

In visioning, a cross-functional team comes together to vision and suggest better performing experiences based on reviewing the data and identifying key issues and opportunities. Visions are a variety of new product concepts for different usage scenarios based on the data collected.

Storyboarding 

After visioning, a design team develops the vision in storyboards, capturing scenarios of how users will work with the new system under different context.

Software prototyping 

Software prototyping is used for testing the design ideas with interactive prototypes before the implementation phase helps the designers communicate with users about the new system and develop the design further.

References 

Mobile software
Software design
Quaid-e-Azam College of Engineering and Technology, Sahiwal. The Quaid-e-Azam College Of Engineering and Technology (QCET) () is a private college located in Sahiwal, Punjab, Pakistan. It offers undergraduate engineering and engineering technology degree programs in affiliation with University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore

Departments and programs

Mechanical Engineering Department
BSc Mechanical Engineering
BSc Mechanical Engineering Technology

Civil Engineering Department
BSc Civil Engineering
BSc Civil Engineering Technology

Electrical Engineering Department
BSc Electrical Engineering
BSc Electrical Engineering Technology

Health Sciences Department
Doctor of Pharmacy
Doctor of Physiotherapy. Fee:230000 per Year

Student societies
 ASME Student Chapter QCET
 ICE QCET
 IEEE QCET
 QCET Debating Society
 QCET Dramatic and Entertainment Society
 QCET Media Society

References

External links
 QCET official website
 Higher Education Commission (HEC) approved colleges list affiliated with universities

Universities and colleges in Sahiwal District
Engineering universities and colleges in Pakistan
2012 establishments in Pakistan
Educational institutions established in 2012
Memorials to Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Kearny Generating Station. Kearny Generating Station is a peaking power plant  on the banks of the Riverbend of the Hackensack River in South Kearny, New Jersey. Owned and operated by Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSEG) the power station consists of 10 simple cycle combustion turbines totaling 456 MW.  It is part of the PJM Interconnection of the Eastern Interconnection grid electric transmission system.

History

Ground was broken for the original Kearny Station on July 12, 1923. Thomas A. Edison helped inaugurate and synchronize this AC station in 1925. At that time it was the largest electric generating station in New Jersey. The plant originally had six coal-fired units, which were converted to oil, all of which have subsequently been retired, the last in 2006.

Starting in 1933, a GE Binary Mercury Steam Turbine Generator system was operated at the Kearney Station, composed of a 20-MW mercury vapour turbine and a 30-MW steam turbine.

Starting in 1967, the steam units were supplemented by peaker units, three of which have been since retired. There are ten simple-cycle peaker units, four of which burn natural gas and liquid fuel that went commercial in 2001 and the remaining six are only natural gas which went commercial 2012.

In October 2012, six new GE LM6000 natural gas-fired units capable of producing over 270 net megawatts of power were put into use.

See also
Essex County Resource Recovery Facility
List of power stations in New Jersey

References

External links
Urban Land Use photos

Natural gas-fired power stations in New Jersey
Kearny, New Jersey
New Jersey Meadowlands District
Hackensack River
Power stations in Hudson County, New Jersey
Public Service Enterprise Group
Former coal-fired power stations in New Jersey
Nobu Su. Nobu Su () is the CEO and owner of the Taipei-based shipping company Today Makes Tomorrow (TMT).

Education
He graduated with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in economics from Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, and earned a M.B.A. from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in 1982.

Entrepreneurship 

Su has also designed an underdeck piping structure for ships, which he patented in Japan, Korea and China, which he has allowed shipping companies to use without license. Su’s underdeck piping system for ships is currently in commercial use.

On 19 April 2011, Su was given the Lifetime Achievement for Entrepreneurship award at the international ShipTek conference.

Shipping business 

Su has turned TMT, his company, into an operator of real tankers and dry bulk ships. Under his direction TMT has expanded its fleet to include drybulk carriers, very large crude carriers, cargo carriers, liquefied natural gas carriers, automobile carriers, and cement carriers

The most recent vessel purchases have been in Capesize dry-bulk carriers as well investments into oil tankers. TMT has a number of business partners and charters from companies like Chevron and COA, for crude oil transport and cement transport. In February 2017 it was revealed that in 2013 he ran afoul of US trade sanctions against Iran.

Legal issues 

In June 2013 Su filed for US Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after being put under pressure by Taiwanese creditors, then in 2015 appealed a $47m judgement against him in a long-standing case against Lakatamia.

In March 2019 Su was found guilty in London of 15 out of the 17 counts of contempt of court with which he was charged and is now serving a 21-month prison sentence at the category 'B' HM Prison Pentonville in Islington, north London. In July 2021, he was sentenced with another two years for contempt of court.

Pan-Asian activism 

Through TMT, he has invested in a number of regional shipping companies and ship construction companies.

Su has stated that he plans to expand the reach of Asian companies into other investments and markets, with a plan to invest in a liquefaction company in São Tomé and Principe to produce natural gas.

References

Keio University alumni
Living people
Taiwanese businesspeople
Year of birth missing (living people)