omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Flying Lions Aerobatic Team. The Flying Lions Aerobatic Team is a South African formation aerobatic team.  They fly a four-ship aerobatic display using North American Harvard aircraft. The team operates five aircraft but only uses four in their display, leaving the fifth to be used as a backup. The Flying Lions have been in operation since 1999 when Arnie Meneghelli acquired the Harvard aircraft that the South African Air Force was decommissioning. The Flying Lions participate at many major airshows around South Africa during the airshow season.

The pilots

Scully Levin 
Scully Levin is the team leader of the Flying Lions Aerobatic Team. He was born in Polokwane in 1946.  He joined South African Airways in 1971 at the age of 25 and flew one of their aircraft in a three-ship formation at the inauguration of President Thabo Mbeki. After reaching SAA's mandatory retirement age, he joined Mango Airlines. He has over 27,000 hours of flight experience. Levin is also the leader of the Gabriel Wings Aerobatic Team.

Arnie Meneghelli 
Arnie Meneghelli is the number 2 pilot and the owner of the Flying Lions Aerobatic Team. He has flown many aircraft types including Extras, Pitts and Zlins. Meneghelli also flies as the right wingman of the Gabriel Wings Aerobatic Team.

Ellis Levin 
Ellis Levin is the son of Scully Levin and the number 3 pilot of the Flying Lions Aerobatic Team. He is currently flying Airbus aircraft with South African Airways.  He also flies as a soloist for the Gabriel Wings Aerobatic Team and is the wingman of the Mazda Zoom Zoom aerobatic team.

Sean Thackwray 
Sean Thackwray is the number 4 pilot of the Flying Lions Aerobatic Team. He was born into a military family and flew Impalas, Mirages and Cheetahs in the South African Air Force. In the past he flew for Cathay Pacific Airlines and currently flies with South African Airways. He is also the left wingman of the Gabriel Wings Aerobatic Team.

Steward Lithgow 
Steward Lithgow is the number 5 pilot of the Flying Lions Aerobatic Team. He was part of the team that landed an SAA Boeing 747 at Rand Airport and he was one of the pilots that participated in the 2004 presidential flypast.

Sponsors 
The Team is currently sponsored by Eqstra Holdings Ltd. Past sponsors include: Academy Brushware,  Air BP, Castrol, Cell C, Nissan, and Peugeot.

2006 water-skiing stunt 
In 2006, the Flying Lions Aerobatic Team performed a water-skiing stunt with their aircraft in the Klipdrift Dam near Johannesburg. The pilots flew low over the dam and reduced their altitude until their aircraft's wheels were about four millimetres into the water, the deepest they could safely go. The stunt was approved by the South African Civil Aviation Authority. The pilots who took part in this stunt were Scully Levin, Arnie Meneghelli, Stewart Lithgow and Ellis Levin. The stunt was photographed by photographer, Frans Dely.

References

External links 

 Official homepage

South African aerobatic teams
FUNcube-1. FUNcube-1 is a complete educational single unit CubeSat satellite with the goal of enthusing and educating young people about radio, space, physics and electronics. It is part of a program which aims to launch more of these educational CubeSats. It is the first satellite with outreach as its primary mission.

FUNcube project

Project
The FUNcube project was started in the UK by AMSAT-UK. The satellite has been developed by a team of volunteers from AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL, and was assembled at ISIS in Delft. It has been designated with OSCAR number 73 by AMSAT and is now also known as AO-73.

Mission
As part of its mission, FUNcube-1 carries a materials science experiment, from which the school students can receive telemetry data and which they can compare to the results they obtained from similar reference experiments in the classroom. This experiment resembles the Leslie's Cube experiment. One of the first schools to use FUNcube-1 in the classroom was Abbeys Primary School in Bletchley which also featured in the BBC breakfast news two days after launch.

Satellite

Instruments
FUNcube-1 is equipped with a UHF to VHF linear transponder with approx 300 mW PEP output and which can be used by Radio Amateurs worldwide for SSB and CW communications during the weekends.

Specifications
Frequencies:
 Telemetry down link 145.935 MHz 1200bd BPSK with FEC
 Transponder Uplink 435.150 - 435.130 MHz LSB (Inverting)
 Downlink 145.950 - 145.970 MHz USB

Maximum uplink power of 5 watts to a 7 dBi gain antenna, more power is not needed to use the transponder. Transponder is SSB/CW Inverting.

Launch
FUNcube-1 was launched at 07:10:11 UTC on 21 November 2013, as part of the ISILaunch03 campaign, aboard a Dnepr rocket, from Yasny Launch Base, Russia. The launch was contracted by ISL, and operated by ISC Kosmotras.

Distribution
The FUNcube distributed ground station network (DGSN) is used in which radio amateurs receive packets and send these via the internet to the central data collection server, called the data warehouse.

To enable easy reception, one of the FUNcube team members, Howard Long G6LVB, has created a USB connected receiver called the FUNcube Dongle.

See also

 2013 in spaceflight
 List of CubeSats
 AMSAT
 OSCAR

References

External links
 funcube.org.uk
 amsat-uk.org
 amsat-nl.org
 FUNcube Data Warehouse

Spacecraft launched in 2013
CubeSats
Satellites of the United Kingdom
Spacecraft launched by Dnepr rockets
Tri-R KIS TR-1. The Tri-R KIS TR-1 is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Rich Trickel and produced by Tri-R Technologies of Oxnard, California, introduced in the 1990s. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development
Trickel's main business was High Tech Composites, a company that produced many airframe components under sub-contract for kit aircraft such as the Lancair 235, Lancair 320 and Lancair IV. Trickel originally drew a new aircraft as a set of three-views for a customer in Australia who was looking for a new, conventional aircraft concept. The customer liked the design, but never paid for the drawings, so Trickel brought them home and completed the design work himself. Eventually the new design became the KIS TR-1.

The KIS TR-1 features a cantilever low-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit accessed via gull-wing doors, fixed tricycle landing gear or optionally conventional landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from composites. Its  span rectangular wing employs a NACA 63-215 airfoil, mounts flaps and has a wing area of . The acceptable power range is  and the standard engines used are the  Continental O-240, the  Lycoming O-235-C1B or the  Limbach L2000 powerplant.

The KIS TR-1 has a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload for the pilot, passenger and baggage is .

The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off with a  engine is  and the landing roll is .

The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 1000 hours.

Variants

KIS TR-1
Original model with tricycle landing gear and a gross weight of . By 1998 the company reported that 25 aircraft were completed and flying. In March 2014 ten examples were registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration, although a total of 13 had been registered at one time. Also in March 2014 there were seven registered in the United Kingdom with the CAA.

KIS TR-1/TD
Conventional landing gear-equipped version ("Taildragger"), with an empty weight of  and a gross weight of . Fuel is . By 1998 the company reported that eight aircraft were completed and flying.

Specifications (KIS TR-1)

References

External links

KIS TR-1
1990s United States sport aircraft
1990s United States civil utility aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
EcoTower. EcoTower is a 32-story edifice with 25 office floors located in Bonifacio Global City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Classified as a Grade A building, EcoTower's construction began in 2011 and was completed in January 2013. The skyscraper has a total commercial and office space area of 29,000 square meters with a typical floor plate of 1,250 square meters. It was designed by Jose Siao Ling & Associates and built by Monolith Construction. In the first two months of 2013, there is highest demand for office space in EcoTower, particularly from BPO firms as it is the only new building with accreditation from the Philippine Export Zone Authority (PEZA) at the time.

Design and features
EcoTower has a modern architectural style and sustainable design. It has 90% floor efficiency and variable refrigerant flow air-conditioning systems.

The building is primarily built to provide smart office space for corporate tenants and business process outsourcing (BPO) firms.

Location
EcoTower is located along major thoroughfare 32nd Street and is a short walk to transport hubs in Bonifacio Global City. It is within the vicinity of entertainment and dining hubs such as Bonifacio High Street and several residential condos.

Known tenants
 10/F: Warner Music Philippines
 11/F: Mindshare Philippines
 17/F: TECHNO GLOBAL TEAM

References

Skyscrapers in Bonifacio Global City
Skyscraper office buildings in Metro Manila
PEZA special economic zones
Office buildings completed in 2013
Homer G. Balcom. Homer G. Balcom (February 16, 1870 – July 3, 1938) was a structural engineer who was responsible for designing the Empire State Building. Balcom was the most prominent consulting structural engineer in America after World War I (WWI).

Life and career
Balcom was born on February 16, 1870, in Chili, New York, the only child of Mahlon and Francis (Gage) Balcom. He earned his degree in civil engineering in 1897 from Cornell University.

Balcom married Gertrude McCrum. They had one daughter, Gertrude Marie. She often accompanied her father to engineering and social functions.

During World War I he volunteered to engineer steel ships for U.S. government at the Hog Island, Pennsylvania shipyards. Because of his contributions, 122 military vessels were built for the war effort at Hog Island, the most of any shipyard by a wide margin.

Although most of his notable works are in USA he also designed buildings outside of the US. Examples include the Louvain University Library in Belgium, Devonshire House in London and YMCA's building in Jerusalem.

Balcom died July 3, 1938, at age 68. He had checked into the hospital four days earlier for a heart ailment. Masonic funeral services were held at his residence, 65 Calumet Avenue, Hasting-on-Hudson, and afterward he was buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown, New York.

Legacy
In 1996, the ASCE Metropolitan Section (ASCE/Metro) established the Homer Gage Balcom Award: "To be presented to an individual who has demonstrated a lifetime of excellence in the structural engineering of buildings, along with advances in the state-of-the-art and a commitment to the advancement of the structural engineering profession."

List of buildings

Empire State Building
David McCullough Bridge
Rockefeller Center Plaza
GE Building 
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Nebraska State Capitol

See also
Engineering Legends
Fazlur Rahman Khan

References

1870 births
1938 deaths
American civil engineers
American structural engineers
People from Chili, New York
Engineers from New York (state)
Iguana Yachts. Iguana Yachts is a French company created in 2008, specialized in design and manufacturing of boats. The main facilities and shipyards are located in Normandy, France. The company produces amphibious motorboats featuring all-terrain tracks.

History 

The shipyard was created in 2008 by Antoine Brugidou, former Vice President of Accenture, in association with the naval architect Tanguy Le Bihan and the designers (Fritsch & associés). 
Antoine Brugidou wanted to create a well-performing luxury boat with all-terrain capabilities. To fit these requirements, Antoine Fritsch designed the Iguana Mobility System which enables the hull to carry the mobility system. In marine conditions, the track system is integrated in the hull and deployed (via a 90° rotation) on the ground. The tracks (which are adapted to sand and mud and built from an internal material resistant to corrosion), enable the boat to land on most of the surfaces from slopes (up to 12° angle), to sand, mud, or rocky beaches. 
After three years of development and two prototypes, Iguana Yachts launched the serial production in Caen using local expertise. 
The project was funded by several business angel networks (Arts et Métiers Business Angels, ESSEC Business Angels, Paris Business Angels, XMP Business Angels) and, with their help, the first 24ft boat was launched 2012. At the same time, production lines were designed and the company ran a stand in the international boat shows. The serial production was launched right after the show and the first luxury boat was sold in 2013, in Bahrain. The amphibious boat also attracts investors specialized in military and professional endeavors (e.g. firemen).

Iguana Yachts today 

Today, Iguana Yachts production is made up of 29ft boats, equipped with 300 HP outboard motors . They can reach 35 knots on sea and 7km/h on earth. 

The aluminum landing gear connected to the carbon fiber hull can provide fatigue resistance and has the purpose of improving performance. The Iguana 29 are used as tender yachts and as day boats for owners of beach villas. 
The last fundraising (end of 2013) brought 1.2 million Euros from several private investors to ensure the further development of the Plan.

Notes and references 

Shipbuilding companies of France
Shipyards of France
French companies established in 2008
Patrind Hydropower Plant. Patrind Hydropower Plant is a run-of-the-river, high head project of , located on Kunhar River near Patrind Village of Mansehra District, right on the border of Abbottabad District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and Muzaffarabad city of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. It is approximately  from Rawalpindi and Islamabad and about  from Abbottabad city.

The dam and the tunnel has been constructed on Kunhar River at Patrind Village in Muzaffarabad District, AJK and Abbottabad District on the right bank in Boi Village and the power house on the right bank of Jehlum River in Muzaffarabad, AJK at lower Chattar near Thuri Park.

Design and construction
The Korean construction company Star Hydro Power Limited (SHPL), an Independent Power Producer (IPP), has set up the  Patrind Hydropower Plant, which is the second private hydro power project in Pakistan. Project is being financed by IFC, ADB and K-Exim Bank. The company has completed the project in a period of three-and-a-half years at an estimated cost of $400 million. The project would generate 150 megawatts of electricity which would not only help improve the electricity voltage in Abbottabad and Mansehra districts but also boost economic activities in the region.

Since the project is being developed by SHPL as an IPP, the SHPL has entered into a 30-year Power Purchase Agreement with National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC), Pakistan's grid system operator, for the sale of electricity generated from the Project.

The first independent hydro power project in the private sector – New Bong Escape Hydropower Project of 84MW – has already been completed and started commercial operation in March 2013.

The total electricity generation capacity of the Patrind Hydropower Plant is 150 MW. A surface type powerhouse to accommodate three Vertical Francis Turbine Units, each of 50 MW capacity, is proposed on the right bank of Jehlum River. The powerhouse site is about  upstream of the Kunhar – Jhelum confluence. The crest elevation is 757 m which is approximately 26m high from the river bed. There will be four radial type crest gates each  in size.

See also 

 List of dams and reservoirs in Pakistan
 List of power stations in Pakistan
 Khan Khwar Hydropower Project
 Satpara Dam
 Gomal Zam Dam
 Duber Khwar hydropower project
 Kohala Hydropower Project

References 

Energy infrastructure completed in 2012
Hydroelectric power stations in Pakistan
Run-of-the-river power stations
Dams in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
SysMaster. SysMaster is a platform independent application performance management (APM) solution developed by TmaxSoft. It provides a centralized environment for monitoring and managing a wide range of system components and processes, including system-critical components such as DBMS, middleware and Frameworks. APM solutions help systems operate stably by monitoring the state of applications in real time.  SysMaster is designed to be capable of tracing every event that occurs within an integrated IT environment in real time with the purpose of identifying issues that could potentially affect system performance, as they occur, before they actually affect the system.

History 

SysMaster was launched in December 2004.  The following table shows a list of versions and release dates:

Features 

The main features of SysMaster are that it is hardware and OS independent, provides end to end transaction tracing and has a Web-based IU.

SysMaster can be used to monitor and manage the performance of web servers, web application servers, TP monitors, application servers, etc.

It uses TmaxSoft’s own technologies for middleware, frameworks, and databases to minimize overheads for collecting, transmitting, manufacturing, storing, and searching data. It provides integrated, customizable dashboards and reports and detailed transaction monitoring allowing drill-down analysis.

References

Cross-platform software
Ekram Hossain. Ekram Hossain is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Hossain leads the Wireless Communications, Networks, and Services Research Group at University of Manitoba and is former editor-in-chief for the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. In addition, Hossain has held visiting professorships at the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (February 2011, August 2009), Tohoku University, Japan (November 2010), and School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Australia (June 2008).

Hossain's research in wireless communication networks is widely cited. In 2012, he received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) and the IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize.

Education 
Hossain completed his Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) and Master of Science (M.Sc.) at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in Dhaka, Bangladesh before going on to complete a Ph.D. at the University of Victoria in Victoria, Canada.

References

External links 
 Prof. Hossain's publication list

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Manitoba
CrossBridge. CrossBridge is an open-source toolset developed by Adobe Systems, that cross-compiles C and C++ code to run in Adobe Flash Player or Adobe AIR. Projects compiled with CrossBridge run up to 10 times faster than ActionScript 3 projects. CrossBridge was also known as "Alchemy" and the "Flash Runtime C++ Compiler", or "FlasCC".

CrossBridge uses high-performance memory-access opcodes in the Flash Player (known as "Domain Memory") to work with in-memory data quickly. CrossBridge uses the LLVM and GCC as compiler backends, in order to compile C++ code, optimize it, and transform it to run within AVM2 (ActionScript Virtual Machine 2). Programs built with CrossBridge are up to 10 times faster than normal ActionScript code, but up to 2× to 10× slower than native C++ code.

CrossBridge can generate Flash Player movies (.swf files), or Flash Libraries (.swc files), which can then be used by larger projects written in ActionScript 3 and compiled using the free Apache Flex SDK (formerly the Adobe Flex SDK). CrossBridge also uses the GPU-based 3D rendering acceleration present in Flash Player 11 (known as Stage3D).

Using CrossBridge, Adobe ported OpenGL for use within Flash Player Stage3D and released it as an open-source project in 2012. The Lua programming language (version 5.1) was also ported to run in Flash Player using CrossBridge, and released on Google Code. CrossBridge-compiled projects also enabled running client-side digital signal processing in real-time, including fast Fourier transform and Mexican hat wavelet transform.

History
In 2008, CrossBridge was released by Adobe as "Project Alchemy", on the Adobe Labs website. It enabled compilation of specially modified C++ projects to SWF, using the LLVM and GCC compilers.

In 2012, in an attempt to monetize Flash Player, Adobe restricted use of the Stage3D and Domain Memory features of Flash Player under the "Premium Features" brand. The "Premium Features" were licensed for use and publishers were to pay royalties to Adobe for use of the same. Project Alchemy was commercially released as the Flash Runtime C++ Compiler.

In 2013, Adobe open-sourced the Flash Runtime C++ Compiler as CrossBridge, and released it on the GitHub code hosting website. The "Premium Features" were also made free for use, and no longer required licensing or royalties.

See also
 asm.js
 Emscripten
 Google Native Client (NaCl)
 WebAssembly – an in-development bytecode for browsers

References

External links

Adobe Flash C++ Compiler (FlasCC) from Adobe devnet

Adobe Flash
Adobe software
Cross-compilers
Free software programmed in C++