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Southend MPG Mayfly. 

The Southend MPG Mayfly was a British two-seat human-powered aircraft built by members of the Southend Man-Powered Group in the 1960s. It was one of the first two-person human-powered aircraft to have been built and tested, although it never flew.

Development

The Southend Man Powered Group was formed by Brian Kerry, an aerodynamicist then working at Aviation Traders company, in order to help realise a two-person human-powered aircraft he had designed, though several other members of the group later provided design input.  The original design dated from 1960, and construction started during the summer of 1961.  Originally intended to be completed by May 1962, resource and construction issues meant that the first flight trials did not take place till July 1965. Although some observers claim they saw light under the wheels on some runs, no flights were made.

Issues around poor design and execution impacted the enthusiasm of the members of the Southend MP Group, with that declining as the project wore on. In 1967, a partial collapse of a Nissen hut, in which the aircraft had been stored, damaged the wing sections, effectively ending the project.  One contemporary author said of the Mayfly, that it never flew, due to "plain bad luck".

One member of the group, Martyn Pressnell, went on to form the Hertfordshire Pedal Aeronauts, who built the first successful two-person human-powered aircraft, the Toucan.

Design
The aircraft had a tractor monoplane configuration, with the two occupants sitting side-by-side at the very nose of the fuselage. It was a high-wing monoplane.  The wing had a constant-chord centre section, with the chord measuring 4 ft 6 in, and tapering outboard sections. Conventional ailerons were fitted, and measured 18 ft in span. The tailplane was all-flying and measured 11 ft by 3 ft.  Construction was a mixture of light wood and steel tube. The aircraft was largely covered in aluminised Meculon plastic film.

The Mayfly's crew sat in a reclining position and powered the tractor propeller, mounted on top of a pylon, using a novel steel cable transmission system which avoided the need for gears and bevels.

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Bibliography

1960s British experimental aircraft
Human-powered aircraft
Tractor aircraft
Twin-engined single-prop tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Unflown aircraft
Aircraft with fixed bicycle landing gear
Joseph Bordogna. Joseph Bordogna (1933–2019) was an American scientist and engineer.

Early life 

Bordogna was born on March 22, 1933, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of Raymond and Rose Bordogna. He graduated from John Bartram Public High School in Philadelphia.

He completed his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in 1955. He completed his Master of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960.

He completed his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 1964.

Career  

He was the deputy director and chief operating officer of the National Science Foundation from 1999 to 2005. He served as the president of IEEE in 1998.

He was the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania where he served also as Director of The Moore School of Electrical Engineering, and Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

From 1991 to 2005, he worked at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), first as head of the Directorate for Engineering, then appointed by the President as deputy director and chief operating officer of NSF. Complementary to these tasks he was a member of the President's Management Council and chaired committees on Manufacturing, Environmental Technologies, and Automotive Technologies in the President's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC).

Awards and honours 

He received the National Science Foundation Distinguished Service Medal; was an Eminent Member of Eta Kappa Nu; was a member of the IEEE Honor Society; and he was awarded IEEE's 2008 James H. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the DC Council of Engineering and Architectural Societies, the US Government Leadership Award of the Semiconductor Industry Association and the Leadership in Technology Management Award from the International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology.

Personal life 
He died on November 25, 2019, at the age of 86. He is survived by his wife Frances, son Ray and granddaughter Avery.

See also 

 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
 University of Pennsylvania

References

External links 
 Biography 1
 Biography 2
 Biography 3

1933 births
2019 deaths
American scientists
American engineers
Presidents of the IEEE
Goupitan shiplift. The Goupitan shiplift () is a boat lifting system on the Wu River, a tributary of the Yangtze River in Guizhou Province, southwest of China. A system of three boat lifts supplements the Goupitan Dam in order to provide shipping along the river.

The designed capacity of the system is 2.928 million tons of cargo per year. It allows ships with a displacement of up to 500 tons to pass, lifting them to a height of . The construction of the boat lifting system was carried out after the completion of the power plant, it was completed in 2021, the cost of building the system was US$777.51 million. The structure of its facilities, in their order from downstream:
 Vertical boat lift with a lifting height of , the height can change along with the water level of the downstream and can reach ;
 Concrete bridge navigable aqueduct for the passage of ships to the boat lift of the second level;
 Second vertical boat lift with a lifting height of ;
 Navigable aqueduct of the second level for the passage of ships;
 Tunnel for the passage of ships from the aqueduct of the second level towards the upstream;
 Vertical boat lift of the upstream pool, the height of the descent can change along with the water level in the reservoir and can reach .
The total length of the two aqueducts, the navigation tunnel and the boat lifts is . In 2023, the second boat lift with a vertical drop of  is the tallest in the world.

See also 
 The Geheyan Dam with similar boat lifting system

References 

Boat lifts
Rivers of Guizhou
Katsarosite. Katsarosite is a rarely occurring mineral from the mineral class of organic compounds with the chemical composition Zn(C2O4)·2H2O and is therefore a water-containing zinc(II) oxalate or the zinc salt of oxalic acid.

Katsarosite is categorized in the humboldtine group as the Zn analogue of humboldtine (Fe(C2O4)·2H2O). It is the second Zn-bearing oxalate mineral after alterite.

Katsarosite crystallizes in the monoclinic crystal system and appears as crystals that are mostly fine granular to earthy, usually rounded with an average diameter of 30 μm. The color depends on the iron (Fe2+) content, ranging from pure white to yellow in Fe-rich specimens.

The mineral is named after Īraklīs Katsaros (ΗΡΑΚΛΗΣ ΚΑΤΣΑΡΟΣ) of Lavrion who has led as guide a large number of scientific archaeological and mineralogical sampling tours through the ancient mining system of Lavrion. His help enabled more than 100 publications in the field of archaeology/mining history and mineralogy/geology. His assistance is further acknowledged in dozens of peer-reviewed scientific papers. 

Type material is deposited in the collections of the Institut für Mineralogie und Kristallographie der Universität Wien, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria, catalogue number HS13.977 (holotype); the Mineralogical Museum of Lavrio, Andrea Kordella Ave., 19500 Lavrio, Greece, catalogue number T3201 (cotype).

References

External links 

 Mineralien Atlas
 lavrion.gr: Katsarosite
 Mindat.org
 Webmineral.com

Organic minerals
Monoclinic minerals
Oxalate minerals
Zinc minerals
Paxton man-powered aircraft. The Paxton man-powered aircraft was the project of architect Tony Paxton, to create a compact human-powered aircraft, suitable for sports flying.

It was a low-wing monoplane, but mounted on top of a tall undercarriage  off the ground.  The airframe was constructed of metal tubing, with extensive use of styrofoam in order to create the wing ribs and fuselage formers.  The wings were of constant chord and made use of the thick-sectioned high-lift GU25-5(11)8 aerofoil. The wings were also wire braced, and fitted with tip plates at each wingtip.  Control was very similar to that of the Weybridge Dumbo machine; the cruciform tail featured movable control surfaces on both fins and the tailplanes, with lateral control being achieved by rotating each wing, in its entirety, around the spar.

The pilot sat in the open air, in a reclined position, and powered a 2-bladed pusher propeller via a bevel-geared drive system.

Initial tests with the aircraft resulted in a failure of the drive system.  A later attempt to tow the aircraft aloft ended when the craft tipped over forwards.  According to the author Keith Sherwin, subsequent developments to the aircraft proved to be successful, implying that it had flown.

Specifications

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Human-powered aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Pusher aircraft
Cruciform tail aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
1970s British experimental aircraft
Aircraft with fixed bicycle landing gear
POSCO Future M. POSCO Future M Co., Ltd. (), is a South Korean battery material & chemical company that produces materials for lithium-ion batteries(as known as Cathode, anodes), refractories and basic industrial materials.

They changed the company name from POSCO Chemical to POSCO FUTURE M in March 2023.

Businesses

Battery materials 

POSCO Future M produces cathode active materials and anodes for EV batteries. It is showing rapid growth by receiving a total of approximately 100 trillion won in cathode material orders from major domestic battery companies (lg energy solutions, Samsung SDI, etc.) in 2023. As of 2023, it has a production capacity of 155,000 tons. The company has set a goal of producing 1 million tons of cathode materials by 2030 and is aggressively expanding its plants. They also plan to increase production of precursors and cathode materials from 45,000 tons and 82,000 tons, respectively, in 2023 to 460,000 tons and 370,000 tons in 2030.

Industrial and chemical materials 

POSCO Future M produces and supplies refractories and quicklime, which are basic industrial materials. In addition to this, they also produce advanced chemical materials such as carbon materials and hydrogen peroxide. Recently, they appears that 100% recycling of waste refractories has been successful.

ESG 

Various policies are being implemented under POSCO Group's ESG management philosophy of 'Corporate Citizens Growing Together'. For example, the company publishes 'corporate citizenship report' every year to inform its ESG activities. In addition, by publishing a 'responsible minerals report', they are making it known that they are manufacturing products by procuring minerals that do not involve labor exploitation or funds flowing into illegal organizations. Recently, the company was recognized for its ESG performance by being included in the DJSI Asia Pacific Index.

See also
 List of South Korean companies

References

External links

POSCO
South Korean companies established in 1971
Companies listed on the Korea Exchange
Companies in the KOSPI 200
Alessio Lomuscio. Alessio Lomuscio is a professor of Safe Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. His research focuses on the verification of autonomous systems, specifically on providing formal safety guarantees for both Multi-agent systems as well as Machine Learning-enabled systems.

Education and academic career 
Alessio Lomuscio grew up in Milan and obtained a Laurea in Electronic Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan in 1999. Afterwards, he moved to the University of Birmingham for his Ph.D. on "Knowledge Sharing among Ideal Agents" under the supervision of Mark Ryan, which he submitted in 1999. During his Ph.D., he was supported by a grant of the university's School of Computer Science.
He worked as a lecturer at King's College London and a senior lecturer at University College London before joining Imperial in 2006.

Research 
In 2018, Lomuscio was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies for researching verification techniques for autonomous systems and Artificial Intelligence. He is the head of the Verification of Autonomous Systems (VAS) group at Imperial College London where he leads research efforts that aim to develop methods for verifying the safety of Multi-agent systems. Further research interests include methods for the safety checking of swarm systems as well as Reinforcement Learning-based agents and the development and advancement of formal verification algorithms for Neural Networks.
The group has a number of strong connections with industry and research councils, specifically the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Assured Autonomy program as well as the Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI. Further projects together with industry and research institutions currently investigate safe algorithms for event forecasting and the safety of AI-enabled personal assistancy systems.

He has co-authored a number of verification and Model Checking toolkits, including: 
 MCMAS (Symbolic Model Checking for Multi-Agent Systems)
 VENUS (Mixed Integer Linear Programming-enabled verification of neural networks with ReLU activation functions)
 VeriNet (Symbolic Interval Propagation-based verification of neural networks with ReLU activation functions)

Awards 
Alessio Lomuscio is a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence. In 2020 he was awarded the title of a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery for his outstanding scientific contributions to Computing. In 2018 he was awarded one out of ten highly prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Chairs in Emerging Technology

References 

Artificial intelligence researchers
Italian computer scientists
Fellows of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academics of the Department of Computing, Imperial College London
Sun Fast 30 One Design. The Sun Fast 30 One Design is a French sailboat that was designed in 2022 by Van Peteghem/Lauriot-Prevost as an offshore one design racer with production starting in 2023.

Production
The design is built by Jeanneau in Cheviré, near Nantes, in France, starting in 2023.

Design
The boat was announced in November 2022 and was based on a concept developed by the UNCL-Racing Division of the Yacht Club de France, the British Royal Ocean Racing Club, and the American Storm Trysail Club. Those clubs saw a need for a more affordable offshore one design racer that would allow national and international competition. To choose a new boat, they initiated a design competition entitled Class 30: Let's Build the Future. This was won by the design firm of VPLP design working with racing boat builder Multiplast. Jeanneau will actually build the boat and provide marketing, distribution and technical support, while Multiplast handles the design prototyping, preform and mold construction, startup of class association organization, racing program and sales oversight.

The boat is designed and constructed to be more ecologically sustainable than past boats. It is built using Elium thermoplastic resin especially for boat construction, which was developed over three years by Arkema in conjunction with Jeanneau's parent company, the Bénéteau Group. Elium is made from 20% recycled material and is 100% recyclable. This allows production waste to be reused and also means the boats themselves are recyclable.

The Sun Fast 30 One Design is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of Elium thermoplastic resin. It has a 9/10 fractional sloop rig with a bowsprit, a semi-scow plumb stem, an open transom, twin transom-hung rudders controlled by a single tiller and a fixed fin keel with a weighted bulb. It displaces  and carries  of ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the standard keel.

The boat is fitted with either a French Nanni Industries diesel engine of  or an electric motor for docking and maneuvering. The fuel tank for the diesel engine installation holds . Either engine qualifies for the one design class.

The design has sleeping accommodation for five people, with a two "V"-berths in the bow cabin, a straight settee and twin seat in the main cabin and two aft cabins, each with a single berth. A navigation station is fitted on the starboard side. The head is located just aft of the bow cabin on the starboard side. Cabin headroom is .

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with an asymmetrical spinnaker.

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links

Keelboats
2020s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
One-design sailing classes
Sailing yachts designed by VPLP
Sailboat types built by Jeanneau
Sailboat types built by Multiplast
Erica Plambeck. Erica L. Plambeck is an American operations researcher specializing in supply chain management and environmental sustainability. She is Charles A. Holloway Professor of Operations, Information & Technology in the Stanford Graduate School of Business, professor in the Stanford University Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, senior fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and the 2022–2023 Dhirubhai Ambani Faculty Fellow in Entrepreneurship at Stanford University.

Education and career
Plambeck majored in industrial engineering and mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, graduating in 1994. After traveling to England as a Marshall Scholar and earning a master's degree in management studies at the University of Cambridge and a diploma in economics at the London School of Economics, she returned to the US for doctoral study in engineering economic systems and operations research at Stanford University, where she completed her Ph.D. in 2000. Her dissertation, Dynamic Incentive Problems in Operations Management, was jointly supervised by Stefanos Zenios and .

She became an assistant professor in the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, affiliated with its program in Operations, Information & Technology. There, she became a full professor in 2005, was named Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor in 2010, and was named Charles A. Holloway Professor in 2015. She also holds an affiliation as professor in Stanford's Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, part of both the Stanford University School of Engineering and Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.

Recognition
Plambeck was a 2003 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, "for applying innovative approaches to optimize real-time information for industrial issues such as movement in the supply chain, and dynamic control of pricing and production". The Aspen Institute gave Plambeck a Faculty Pioneer Award in 2005.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Marshall Scholars
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Alumni of the London School of Economics
Stanford University alumni
American operations researchers
American women academics
Stanford University Graduate School of Business faculty
Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Build Better More. The Build Better More (BBM) is the infrastructure program of the Marcos administration (2022–2028). It superseded the Build! Build! Build! infrastructure program of the Duterte administration (2016–2022). The following Infrastructure Flagship Projects (IFP)s were identified by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).

The Marcos administration approved 194 infrastructure projects, ranging from public transport, power, health, information technology, water resources, and agriculture. 77 of those project were carried from past administrations while 123 are “new and initiated” by the Marcos administration. The total cost for the Build Better More program is .

List of infrastructure flagship projects

Private transportation

Roads

Airports

Seaports

Urban development

Information and communications technology

Health

Agriculture, forestry and aquaculture

Energy and power

Water resources

References

External links
 Overview of the Infrastructure Flagship Projects under the Build-Better-More Program
 Build Better More – Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas

Presidency of Bongbong Marcos
Economic history of the Philippines
Kian (UAV). The Kian is an Iranian military unmanned aerial vehicle. The aircraft is said to be capable of continuous travel for more than 1,000 km and able to climb to 5,000 meters above sea level. The aircraft was designed, manufactured and tested by experts from the Iranian Air Force drone unit.

This drone was introduced in September 2019. It is a combat and defense drone available in two variants, featuring high-speed capabilities for interception, reconnaissance, and extended flight endurance missions to execute precise operations. This drone features a wingspan ranging from approximately 3.5 to 4 meters and a length of around 4.5 meters, surpassing the dimensions of the "Kian-1." Its robust wings, designed for optimal performance at subsonic speeds, enable the "Kian-2" to transport a significantly greater amount of fuel.

This drone is equipped with a compact gas turbine jet engine, likely of the turbojet variety, housed within the fuselage. It features two air inlets of sophisticated design, aligned with the fuselage and its lateral surfaces. Additionally, the drone is designed with a delta wing configuration, which enhances its flight performance, offering superior maneuverability that improves target destruction accuracy at elevated speeds. Similar to the Kian-1, the Kian-2 drone employs a solid fuel bed to initiate flight and achieve the requisite initial speed for the jet engine to become operational.

See also
List of military equipment manufactured in Iran
Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces
Defense industry of Iran
Unmanned aerial vehicles in the Iranian military
Loitering munition
Shahed 149 Gaza
Arash (drone)

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Unmanned military aircraft of Iran
Iranian military aircraft
Aircraft manufactured in Iran
Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force
Post–Cold War military equipment of Iran
Unmanned aerial vehicles of Iran