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AMA motor-glider. The AMA, named after its designers, was a one-off motor glider built in Poland in the mid-1930s. Its development was abandoned after early tests revealed incurable engine-mounting vibration problems.

Development

Until the mid-1930s, the Polish government had supported amateur aeronautical activity. The end of this support forced designers to consider low cost powered gliders and other small, low powered, structurally simple aircraft.  The AMA, a powered glider designed by Andrzej Anczutin, Henryk Malinowski and Rościslaw Aleksandrowicz from the Warsaw Technical University, was one of many such designs.

Its first flight, made in August 1935 and piloted by Szczepan Grzeszczyk, was as a glider towed by an RWD 8. It was first flown under its own power by Aleksander Onoszko on 13 September 1935. Over the next two days it was flown by Kazimierz Chorzewski in displays celebrating the start of the Warsaw-based 23rd Gordon-Bennett Championships.

These flights revealed two significant problems: stability and engine vibration. The former was reduced by empennage modifications, but the latter proved incurable. Development was abandoned after only six powered flights.

Design

The AMA was a high wing monoplane with a wooden structure. Its wing was in three parts, a short, partly metal skinned centre section and two outer panels of constant chord and thickness out to rounded, thinned tips. The outer panels were built around a single box spar with a ply-covered D-box ahead, forming the leading edge. Elsewhere the wing was fabric covered. Ailerons reached to the wing tips. The wing was supported centrally on a streamlined pylon and braced on each side with a single, streamlined steel strut between spar and lower fuselage longeron.

Its  Poinsard air-cooled flat twin engine was mounted in pusher configuration over the wing above the central pylon, an arrangement used earlier on the BAC Planette.

The fuselage of the AMA was rectangular in section, cross-braced with wire and fabric covered, with a single-seat, open cockpit immediately ahead of the wing pylon. The fixed empennage surfaces were covered with ply, and the control surfaces with fabric. Together, the tall fin and rudder had a blunted triangular profile. The AMA's low, divided-type undercarriage placed the fuselage underside close to the ground, with each wheel on a V-strut hinged on the lower fuselage longeron and a bracing strut to the upper fuselage. These struts were rigid, and the AMA relied on  Dunlop low-pressure tyres to absorb landing shocks.

Specifications

References

1930s Polish civil aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Boeing Model 908-909. The Boeing Model 908-909 was a prototype single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft originally developed for the United States Air Force (USAF) Lightweight Fighter program, a program that later developed into the Air Combat Fighter (ACF) program. It was initially the favored design but lost at the conclusion of the competition to the General Dynamics 401, later the YF-16 (now Lockheed F-16).

Among the Boeing Model 908-909 features include a frameless bubble canopy for better visibility and a Pratt & Whitney F100 turbofan engine. Wind tunnel tests were conducted at the Langley Research Center as Test 281.

The Lightweight Fighter proposals were delivered to the Air Force by the February 18, 1972 deadline. The Boeing Model 908-909 was the winner of a preliminary analysis. Other submitted designs included the General Dynamics Model 401 and Northrop Model P-600 which were deemed second and third place, respectively. The General Dynamics Model 401 was renamed the YF-16 and was the eventual winner. The P-600 was renamed the YF-17, later F/A-18 was a further modification. The Vought Model V-1100 and Lockheed Model CL-1200 were fourth and fifth place in the preliminary analysis.

Other sources
 Photographs of wind tunnel test model published by NASA
 Photograph of Boeing Model 908-909

References

1970s United States experimental aircraft
908-909
John D. Norton. John Daniel Norton (born 1953) is an Australian philosopher of physics and distinguished professor of the history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh.

Biography
He had originally studied chemical engineering at the University of New South Wales (1971–1974). After working at the Shell Oil Refinery at Clyde, Sydney for two years, he decided to switch fields, beginning doctoral studies in the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of New South Wales (1978–1981). His dissertation was titled "The Historical Foundation of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity." After finishing his dissertation, he worked at the Princeton University Press on the Einstein Papers Project (1982–1983) under the direction of John Stachel. From 1983 until the present, he has been in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, first as a visiting faculty member, then (from 1997) as a full professor, serving as Chair of the department from 2000 to 2005. He is currently Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science.

Norton is considered an authority on the science of Albert Einstein and the philosophy of science. He has published on general relativity, special relativity, the relationship between thermodynamics and information processing, quantum physics, and the genesis of scientific theories. He is well known for his analysis of Einstein's "Zurich Notebook", a small, brown notebook which contains Einstein's private day-to-day calculations during a critical period (1912–1913) in his development of general relativity. The trio of Einstein scholars, John Norton, John Stachel, and John Earman, have sometimes been jokingly referred to as   

A central theme of his work on Einstein is that Einstein's fundamental contributions to the "old" quantum theory have been largely forgotten because of his well-known criticism of the "new" quantum mechanics and its statistical interpretation. In the field of information science, Norton has criticized the claim by Rolf Landauer and others that schemes exist whereby digital computers can store data in a logically and physically reversible manner that, until the data are erased, represent an apparent violation of the second law of thermodynamics.   In the  philosophical debate about thought experiments, Norton has taken the position that all thought experiments (without exception) can be reconstructed as straightforward arguments.

Norton's name is also attached to Norton's dome, a thought experiment showing nondeterminism in Newtonian physics.

Notes

References

External links 

 Oral History Interview with John D. Norton by David Zierler on June 5, 2020, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics

Living people
1953 births
Scientists from Sydney
University of Pittsburgh faculty
Philosophers of science
21st-century Australian philosophers
Historians of physics
University of New South Wales alumni
Aero East Europe. Aero East Europe d.o.o. (styled as Aero-East-Europe) is a Serbian aircraft manufacturer that was based in Kraljevo and is now in Jagodina. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft and light aircraft in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft.

The company is a društvo sa ograničenom odgovornošću, a Serbian Private Limited Liability Company.

The company has designed and built the Sila line of light aircraft. Sila stands for Serbian industry light aircraft, but also means force in the Serbian language. The range includes the Sila 450 C and Sila 750 C cruiser models, the Sila 750 S STOL, the three-seat Sila 750 MT medical transport and the four-seat Sila 950.

The company designs aircraft in conjunction with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Belgrade.

Aside from aircraft manufacturing, the company also conducts aircraft maintenance and aircraft engine maintenance.

Aircraft 
Summary of aircraft built by Aero East Europe:
Aero East Europe Sila (Serbian industry light aircraft) series

See also
 Aircraft industry of Serbia

References

External links

Aircraft manufacturers of Serbia
Ultralight aircraft
Aircraft manufacturers of Yugoslavia
Serbian brands
140 Corps Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers. 140 Corps Engineer Regiment was a short-lived Territorial Army (TA) unit of the Royal Engineers based  in the North Midlands of England during the 1960s.

Organisation
The regiment was formed on 1 May 1961 from individual batteries of TA Royal Artillery regiments that were being broken up. Three of these batteries were transferred to the Royal Engineers (RE) and redesignated as squadrons, giving the regiment the following composition:

140 Corps Engineer Regiment
 Regimental Headquarters at Nottingham
 438 (Derbyshire Artillery) Field Squadron at Derby – former P (North Midland) Battery from 438 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, continuing the traditions of 4th North Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 575 (Sherwood Foresters) Field Squadron at Chesterfield – former 575 (Sherwood Foresters) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, continuing the traditions of 6th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters
 115 (Leicestershire) Field Park Squadron at Leicester – former R Battery from 350 (The Robin Hood Foresters) Light Regiment, continuing the traditions of the Leicestershire Royal Horse Artillery

Disbandment
140 Corps Engineer Rgt was disbanded in 1967 when the TA was reduced to the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve. RHQ was converted into RHQ for 73 Engineer Rgt at Nottingham, while elements of 438 and 575 Sqns went as infantry to the Derbyshire Battalion, Sherwood Foresters and 115 Sqn to the TAVR III contingent of the Leicestershire Regiment. In 1969 the Derbyshire Battalion was reduced to a cadre (later C (Derbyshire Foresters) Company in 3rd (Volunteer) Bn Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment) and 575 (The Sherwood Foresters) Fd Sqn at Chesterfield and Derby was reformed in 73 Engineer Regiment.

575 Field Squadron was withdrawn from the army's order of battle under the 2020 Army Reserve structure changes and was disbanded in 2014, two troops and the Chesterfield TA Centre (Wallis Barracks) being transferred to 350 (Sherwood Foresters) Fd Sqn in 33 Engineer Regiment (EOD).

Notes

References
 Summary of Army 2020 Reserve Structure and Basing, Ministry of Defence, 2013.
 Norman E.H. Litchfield, The Territorial Artillery 1908–1988 (Their Lineage, Uniforms and Badges), Nottingham: Sherwood Press, 1992, .

External sources
 British Army units from 1945 on
 Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth – Regiments.org (archive site)

Regiments of the Royal Engineers
Military units and formations in Nottinghamshire
Military units and formations in Nottingham
Military units and formations established in 1961
Military units and formations disestablished in 1967
Elspeth Finch. Elspeth Finch  (born December 1975) is the founder and CEO of IAND (Indigo & Limited). She won the 2013 Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal and was appointed MBE in 2018.

Early life and education 
Finch's mother was a medical physicist and her father was a physics professor. She likes to say that her engineering career 'is about removing friction'. She studied chemistry at the University of York when she was only 17. She completed a masters in transport and planning at the Newcastle University. She started a career in research and lecturing at University College London.

Career 
Finch's career journey spans government policy and transport engineering to software product design. At the age of 24, she founded her first business Intelligent Space Partnership, a transport consultancy that integrated the needs of pedestrians and cyclists into town planning. Here she developed software that uses technology to analyse how people move. She worked on the Boston Downtown Crossing and Regent Street strategy. She worked with the Metropolitan Police Service and Notting Hill Carnival. She sold Intelligent Space to Atkins as a FTSE 250 global infrastructure company in 2007.

After selling her company to Atkins she joined as a lead of the Futures team, identifying changes in populations' environments and societies and assessing their impact on infrastructure. She was the youngest ever director of Highways and Transportation. Finch was appointed UK Innovation Director of Atkins, where she was responsible for the 2009 redesign of London's Oxford Circus. She was responsible for Future Proofing Cities, a report looking to identify challenges in global urbanisation using evidence from 129 cities. In 2009 she was nominated as Management Today's 35 Women Under 35. She is the cofounder and CEO of the start-up Indigo&, a digital supplier management platform.

Finch is an advocate for more diversity in science and engineering. In 2013 she was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal for her contributions to UK engineering. She was only the fourth woman ever to win the award. That year she was named as one of the Royal Society of Chemistry's 175 Faces of Chemistry. She is a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering Diversity and Inclusion panel. She is a judge for the Royal Academy of Engineering Launchpad competition for budding entrepreneurs. In January 2018 she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire. In 2021 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

References 

Living people
Alumni of the University of York
Alumni of Newcastle University
British chief executives
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Female fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
1975 births
Gerald T. Heydt. Gerald Thomas Heydt is an American electrical engineer and Regents’ Professor at Arizona State University, Tempe.

Heydt was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for contributions to the technology of electric power quality.

Honors
The 2010 recipient of the IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award for his pioneering work in power quality analysis techniques, notably the "harmonic power flow" method (1981) commercialized as HARMFLO software and the analytical foundations for the CBEMA power curve method for analyzing three-phase unbalanced situations.
 Electric Power Engineering Research and Education, a festschrift for Gerald T. Heydt, 
 IEEE Life Fellow

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Living people
American electrical engineers
Arizona State University faculty
IEEE award recipients
Hirofumi Akagi. is a Japanese electrical engineer and professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology (since January 2000), IEEE Fellow.

He received his B.S. degree from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1974, and his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1976 and 1979, in all electrical engineering.

Recognition
2018: IEEE Power Medal Award
2008: IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award 
Four IEEE Transactions Prize Paper Awards
2004: IEEE Industry Applications Society Outstanding Achievement Award
2001: IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award
1996: IEEE Fellowship

References

1952 births
Living people
Tokyo Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of Tokyo Institute of Technology
Japanese electrical engineers
IEEE award recipients
Fellows of the IEEE
Pauthenier equation. The Pauthenier equation states  that the maximum charge accumulated by a particle modelled by a small sphere passing through an electric field is given by:

where  is the permittivity of free space,  is the radius of the sphere,  is the electric field strength, and  is a material dependent constant.

For conductors, .

For dielectrics:   where  is the relative permittivity.

Low charges on nanoparticles and microparticles are stable over more than 103 second time scales.

References 

Physics theorems
Vitaliy Satskyi. Vitaliy Antonovych Satskyi (; 22 April 1930 – 26 October 2017) was a Ukrainian politician, director of Zaporizhstal, former metallurgist. He was a member of the Academy of Mining Sciences of Ukraine (1993), the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Ukraine, and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

Career
Born in village of Chubarivka (today Polohy), in 1954 Satskyi graduated a technological faculty of the Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute (today the National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine) as engineer-metallurgist.

In 1954 to 1980 he worked at the leading metal producing factory in Ukraine Kryvorizhstal starting from engineer-roller of rolling shop and secretary of the factory's Komsomol Committee to chief engineer and deputy director of Kryvorizhstal in 1968.

In 1980-1983 Satskyi was a director of the All-Union Research and Development Design Institute of Mechanized Labor in Ferrous Metallurgy () in Dnipropetrovsk or briefly Mekhchormet () and in 1983-1986 he was a chief of the Ukrmetalurhprom (, Ukrainian Metallurgy).

In 1986-2012 Satskyi was a director of Zaporizhstal and in 1990-1994 a People's Deputy of Ukraine. On 18 March 1990 he was elected at the Zavodskyi electoral district (#180) of Zaporizhzhia city among eight runners. In 1950-1991 Satskyi was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

On 26 October 2017 he died after an after prolonged illness. At time of death, Satskyi was on the Forbes list of the most rich people in Ukraine with his assets estimated at $128 million.

Awards
 Laureate of the State Prize of UkrSSR in Science and Technology (1970)
 Merited Metallurgist of Ukraine (1975)
 Hero of Ukraine (1999)
 Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2001)

 Order of the Badge of Honour (1966)
 Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1971)
 Full cavalier of the Order of Merit (all three degrees 1993–2005)
 Order of State (1999)
 Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (5th degree, 2009)

References

External links
 Buzalo, V. Vitaliy Satskyi. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine.
 Shykhanov, R. Vitaliy Satskyi. Famous Zaporizhians (Slavetni Zaporizhtsi).
 Vitaliy Satskyi at Forbes-Ukraine
 Vitaliy Satskyi. National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine. "Lohos-Ukrayina Publishing". Kyiv, 2015
 Profile at Verkhovna Rada website

1930 births
2017 deaths
People from Polohy
People from Zaporizhia Okruha
National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine alumni
First convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
Recipients of the title of Hero of Ukraine
Recipients of the Order of the Badge of Honour
Recipients of the Order of State
Recipients of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class
Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 1st class
Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 2nd class
Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Laureates of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology
Zaporizhstal
Soviet metallurgists
Ukrainian metallurgists
Spensa Technologies. Spensa Technologies was a private company based in the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette, Indiana that specialized in precision agriculture. The company, founded in 2009, was known for its ag-related technology, including automated pest sensors and software. It was acquired in April 2018 by DTN.

History
Spensa was founded on 16 January 2009 by Johnny Park, a computer engineering professor at Purdue University, whose research into robotics and computer vision in farming (supported by a $6.4M USDA grant) led to the creation of the company. With support from the National Science Foundation and private investment, Spensa expanded its operations and developed agriculture-related hardware and software products.

Spensa's principal hardware product was the Z-Trap, an automated electronic device that detects insects in a field and wirelessly reports its data. Its software consisted of both web-based and mobile applications, centered on the Spensa Agronomic Platform (AP), a subscription-based software.

Spensa was acquired in April 2018 by Minneapolis-based DTN, a company owned by TBG AG.

References

Agriculture companies of the United States
Privately held companies based in Indiana
Technology companies established in 2009
West Lafayette, Indiana
Aluminium dihydrogenphosphate. Aluminium dihydrogenphosphate describes inorganic compounds with the formula Al(H2PO4)3.xH2O where x = 0 or 3.  They are white solids.  Upon heating these materials convert sequentially to a family of related polyphosphate salts including aluminium triphosphate (AlH2P3O10.2H2O), aluminium hexametaphosphate (Al2P6O18), and aluminium tetrametaphosphate (Al4(P4O12)3).  Some of these materials are used for fireproofing and as ingredients in specialized glasses.

According to analysis by X-ray crystallography, the structure consists of a coordination polymer featuring octahedral Al3+ centers bridged by tetrahedral dihydrogen phosphate ligands. The dihydrogen phosphate ligands are bound to Al3+ as monodentate ligands.

References

Phosphates
Aluminium compounds
International Journal of Remote Sensing. The International Journal of Remote Sensing is a semimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on remote sensing. It was established in 1980 and is published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society, of which it is the official journal. The journal Remote Sensing Reviews, which was established in 1983, was incorporated into the International Journal of Remote Sensing in 2001. The editors-in-chief are Timothy A. Warner (West Virginia University) and Arthur P. Cracknell (University of Dundee). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.151.

References

External links

Geography journals
Remote sensing journals
Academic journals established in 1980
Semi-monthly journals
English-language journals
Taylor & Francis academic journals
Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies of the United Kingdom
Briegleb BG-08. 

The Briegleb BG-08 was a 1940s two-seat glider designed by William G. Briegleb.

Development
The BG-08 was a high-wing tandem two-seat glider with a steel-tube-and-fabric fuselage, wooden wings with fabric covering and a metal-and-fabric tail. The type certificate was approved on 31 December 1942.

The glider was built by Briegleb's company, the Sailplane Corporation of America. Three gliders were impressed into service with the United States Army Air Forces in 1942.

Variants
BG-08
Company designation
XTG-13
United States Army Air Corps designation for one BG-8 which was impressed as training glider in 1942.
TG-13
United States Army Air Corps designation for two BG-8s which were impressed as training gliders in 1942.

Operators

United States Army Air Corps

See also
Briegleb El Mirage Airfield

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1940s United States sailplanes
Glider aircraft
BG-08