omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Simon Bollom. Air Marshal Sir Simon John Bollom,  (born 1960) is a retired senior Royal Air Force (RAF) officer who is currently serving as chief executive officer of Defence Equipment and Support.

RAF career
Educated at the University of Southampton, Bollom joined the RAF as an engineer in 1981. He became Director, Tactical Mobility at the Ministry of Defence in November 2000, Director Tornado Future Support at the Ministry of Defence in January 2003 and Tornado Integrated Project Team Leader in March 2005. He went on to be Director of Combat Air at Defence Equipment and Support in January 2008 and then Chief of Materiel – Air at Defence Equipment and Support in October 2012. He left the Royal Air Force in April 2016.

He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2011 Birthday Honours. In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours.

Post-RAF Career

In May 2017, he became the interim Chief of Materiel (Ships) at Defence Equipment and Support following the appointment of Vice Admiral Sir Simon Lister as acting CEO of the  Submarine Delivery Agency. He became Chief Executive Officer of Defence Equipment and Support in May 2018. In 2021, he was paid a salary of £275,000 to £280,000 and a bonus of £95,000 to £100,000. In October 2023, he became National Chair of SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity.

References

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1960 births
Alumni of the University of Southampton
British military personnel of The Troubles (Northern Ireland)
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Living people
Royal Air Force air marshals
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Eli Eduardo de Gortari. Eli Eduardo de Gortari de Gortari (April 28, 1918 in Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico – July 29, 1991) was a logician, philosopher of science and engineer.

Biography 

Elí de Gortari was a student of the Engineering School of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM, Spanish acronym), matriculating in 1938. His goal was to become an engineer, which he achieved in two years. His commitment to public welfare led him to enroll in sanitation engineering, but he continued his studies of mathematics and philosophy. Eventually, in 1948, he would become a professor of philosophy of science. In 1949 he obtained a master's degree in philosophy and published a thesis "The Science of Logic" in the Soviet Union.

Works 

Among his published works are: The Science of Logic (1950); The Dialectic of Physics (1964); General Logic (1965); Introduction to Dialectic Logic (1956); Science in Mexican History (1963); Seven Essays on Modern Science (1969); The Dialectic Method (1970); Elements of Mathematical Logic (1983); Science and Consciousness in Mexico: 1767-1783 (1973); Science Methods (1977); University Reform Today and Tomorrow (1987), where he recounts his battles as an education activist; and the Dictionary of Logic (1988).

Bibliography 
 Boltvinik, Julio, "Economía Moral", en La Jornada en internet, viernes 3 de octubre de 2008.
 Ferrater Mora, José, Diccionario Filosófico E-J, Barcelona, Ariel, 1996.
 Poniatowska, Elena, La noche de Tlatelolco, México, Ediciones Era, 1998, 281 p.p.
 Sánchez Vázquez, Adolfo, Filosofía y circunstancias, México, Anthropos Editorial, 1997, 426 p.p.
 Gortari, Elí de, El método dialéctico, México, Editorial Grijalbo, 1970.
—————— "La relación entre la ciencia y la filosofía", en La filosofía y la ciencia natural, México, Editorial Grijalbo, 1977.
 UNAM, Premio Universidad Nacional. 1985-1997. Nuestros maestros, México, UNAM, 1998, IV t.
 Vargas Lozano, Gabriel, "Esbozo histórico de la filosofía mexicana del siglo XX", en Mario Teodoro Ramírez (coord.), Filosofía de la cultura en México, México, Editorial Plaza y Valdés, 1997.

References

Philosophers of science
20th-century Mexican philosophers
Logicians
20th-century Mexican engineers
Philosophers of physics
1918 births
1991 deaths
National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni
Great Wall Voleex C50. The Great Wall Voleex C50 is a compact car manufactured by the Chinese company Great Wall Motors from 2012 to 2016.

Overview

The Voleex C50 was launched at the 2011 Guangzhou International Motor Show. The styling of the side profile of the Great Wall Voleex C50 heavily resembles an Eighth generation Honda Civic sedan.

Features
The car is powered by a 1.5-litre turbocharged petrol engine, delivering up to 
 at 5600 rpm, with a peak torque of  between 2000 and 4500 rpm. It is the first turbocharged model of the Chinese manufacturer. The combined fuel consumption is  and the top speed is . It complies with the Euro IV emission standards.

It comes with standard front airbags, ABS, EBD, ESP, trip computer, and optionally can be equipped with electric sunroof, leather seats, side and curtain airbags, cruise control or rear parking sensors.

Safety
In December 2012, it was awarded five stars by China-NCAP, the Chinese New Car Assessment Program, in a session that used newer, revised standards. It scored a total of 52.5 points. This result included: 14.68 points in the frontal 100% crash test, 14.54 points in the frontal offset 40% crash test, 17.37 points in the side crash test, 2.73 points in the seat whiplash test, and 3 bonus points.

References

External links
Official website

C-NCAP small family cars
Voleex C50
Cars introduced in 2011
2010s cars
Cars of China
Carlton Beal. Carlton Beal (1914–1994) was an American businessman, college professor and polo player.

Biography

Early life
Carlton Evans Beal was born on September 3, 1914, in Los Angeles, California. His father, Carl H. Beal, Vice-President of Marland Oil Company, is credited with discovering some of California's greatest oil fields. He attended the Menlo School. He received a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Stanford University in 1936 and a master's degree in Petroleum Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1938.

Career
During the Second World War, he worked for the Petroleum Administration for War. After World War II, he became assistant professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. In 1954, he moved to Midland, Texas, with his family and hired Allen "Moose" Trobaugh. Together, they created Beal, Trobaugh and Associates (BTA). BTA drilled 1,500 wells.

He was a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Petroleum Institute, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Independent Petroleum Association of America, Western Geophysical Association and the Permian Basin
Petroleum Association.

Polo
He learned how to play polo from Hugh Drury and Snowy Baker. As a professional player, he won the Monty Waterbury Cup in 1950 at the Meadow Brook Polo Club, the U.S. Open Championship in 1952 at the Beverly Hills Polo Club. In 1956, rated at six goals, he won the Intercircuit Cup with two of his sons at the Oak Brook Polo Club, now known as the Chicago Polo Club.

He was a governor of the United States Polo Association (USPA) and the Polo Training Foundation. He was also a Governor of the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame, where he was inducted on March 20, 1992. He donated the Philip L.B. Iglehart Library Room to the Museum of Polo.

Personal life
He married Keleen Haubner in 1938. His son, Carlton Beal, Jr., has been a partner of BTA Oil Producers since 1967. The business continues to be owned by Carlton Beal's sons and grandsons.

Legacy
The Keleen & Carlton Beal Professorship at Stanford University is currently held by Professor Anthony R. Kovscek.

References

1914 births
1994 deaths
Businesspeople from Los Angeles
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
MIT School of Engineering alumni
University of Southern California faculty
American businesspeople in the oil industry
People from Midland, Texas
American polo players
20th-century American businesspeople
Magnetic logic. Magnetic logic is digital logic made using the non-linear properties of wound ferrite cores. Magnetic logic represents 0 and 1 by magnetising cores clockwise or anticlockwise.

Examples of magnetic logic include core memory. Also, AND, OR, NOT and clocked shift logic gates can be constructed using appropriate windings, and the use of diodes.

A complete computer called the ALWAC 800 was constructed using magnetic logic, but it was not commercially successful.
The Elliott 803 computer used a combination of magnetic cores (for logic function) and germanium transistors (as pulse amplifiers) for its CPU.  It was a commercial success.

William F. Steagall of the Sperry-Rand corporation developed the technology in an effort to improve the reliability of computers. In his patent application, filed in 1954, he stated:

Magnetic logic was able to achieve switching speeds of about 1MHz but was overtaken by semiconductor based electronics which was able to switch much faster.

Solid state semiconductors were able to increase their density according to Moore's Law, and thus proved more effective as IC technology developed.

Magnetic logic has advantages in that it is not volatile, it may be powered down without losing its state.

See also
 Electropermanent magnet
 Magnetic amplifier
 Parametron
 Hewitt Crane

References

Magnetism
Logic gates
Magnetic logic computers
1954 in computing
Milbeaut. The Socionext Milbeaut image/video processors are media processors in multi-processor system on a chip architecture. Started by Fujitsu with the M-1 Series in 2000 each generation (2013: 7th) has several variants regarding included modules and processor-cores, built for mobile phones, digital compact cameras, MILCs and DSLRs like Leica M (Typ 240) and Leica S2, Nikon DSLRs (see Nikon Expeed), some Pentax K mount cameras and for the Sigma True-II processor.

Technology
Multiple FR-V processor cores, with even each single processor-core able to compute many instructions/operations in parallel are used for image- and video-processing. Storage- and display-interfaces and other modules are added and a digital signal processor (DSP) increases the number of simultaneous computations.

An on-chip 32-bit Fujitsu FR microcontroller (6th generation in 2011 introduced the dual-core ARM architecture) initiates and controls the operation and data transfers of all processors, modules and interfaces and can be seen as the main control unit of the camera. The Milbeaut is also used as an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) or application-specific standard product (ASSP).

The 7th generation uses a 55 nm low-power process (SuVolta) and ARM Cortex-A5 microcontroller.

References

Parallel computing
SIMD computing
Digital signal processors
Fujitsu microprocessors
Image processors
Blessing Rebell. The Blessing Rebell was a one/two seat motorglider designed for amateur construction in Germany. Only one was built, flying for the first time in 1973 in a pusher configuration. It was later modified and flew in 1980 as a tractor aircraft.

Design and development

The Rebell was designed by Gerhard Blessing as a self-launching glider suitable for amateur builders, even those working in confined workspaces. To allow this, the wing could be built in one, two or three parts and no individual component was more than  long.

The Rebell had low-mid set wings built around a single wooden spar and wood covered. They had dihedral only on the outer panels, each  long and foldable for storage. The fuselage was a steel tube structure, wood covered and had a roughly rectangular cross-section. The canopy was quite long and normally enclosed just a single seat, but there was space to place a second seat in tandem behind the first. The engine, originally a  Hirth M28 twin cylinder unit, was placed over the wing behind the cockpit with the propeller shaft at the top of the fuselage, locating the propeller just behind the trailing edge of the wing. Aft, the fuselage became a low-set boom, bearing wooden tail surfaces including a swept, straight edged vertical tail with a long dorsal fillet.  The Rebell had a recessed monowheel undercarriage assisted by a tailwheel and two stabilizing wheels mounted at the extreme inner wing panels.

The first flight was made on 3 June 1973. In 1974 the Hirth company went into liquidation and an alternative engine was needed; in the Summer of 1975 the Rebell prototype was flying with a modified Volkswagen motor. Further testing in this form led to a major power plant/fuselage rebuild, started in 1976. The result, renamed the Staff Rebell, had a tractor configuration Limbach SL1700 engine in the nose. The fuselage, its wooden covering replaced with Dacron, became deeper behind the cockpit and no longer a boom; the dorsal fillet was removed. The canopy was also re-shaped, curving down to rather than merging horizontally into the dorsal line.

The Staff Rebell first flew in August 1980.

Operational history

The sole Rebell/Staff Rebell D-KEBO was no longer on the German civil register in 2010.

Variants
Rebell Original version with pusher configuration engine, first a Hirth M28 then a modified Volkswagen from Summer 1975.
Staff Rebell Major fuselage redesign with tractor configuration Limbach SL1700 engine. First flown August 1980.

Specifications (Hirth engine)

References

Motor gliders
1970s German sailplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1973
Single-engined piston aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Parachute Industry Association. The Parachute Industry Association (PIA) is a business association which seeks to advance and promote the growth, development, training, and safety of military, commercial, and sport parachutes. It consists of more than 210 companies united by a common desire to improve business opportunities in this segment of aviation. The PIA is a nonprofit organization governed by an elected Board. The Parachute Industry Association was founded in January 1977 as the Parachute Equipment Industry Association.

Functions
The Parachute Industry Association actively pursues technical, safety, and promotional projects that benefit its members and the industry it serves. The purpose of the PIA is to recognize and promote the use of parachutes through public education and awareness; recognize the contribution to parachutes by its participants, suppliers, and supporters; capture forever the history of the industry via its events, equipment, and personalities; and enhance aviation safety as it pertains to the use of parachutes.

The Parachute Industry Association meets twice each year. On odd-numbered years, it hosts the International Parachute Symposium. The symposium consists of classes, displays, and a venue for other aviation organizations to meet.

The Parachute Industry Association is the custodian of more than 300 parachute specifications (thread, cloth, tape, webbing, hardware, plating, etc.). Formerly referred to as Military Specifications (Mil-Specs), these documents were turned over to the PIA when the U.S. government stopped maintaining all Mil-Specs in the mid-1990s. The PIA members meet to discuss, revise, publish, and keep these specifications up-to-date.

The PIA publishes service bulletins for the parachute industry. The PIA Library of Public Documents is a rich source of information regarding aspects of the PIA's organizational structure, parachute design, maintenance, and parachute rigging.  These documents are available without charge to the public.

The PIA advises the Federal Aviation Administration on parachute regulations. The PIA works closely with other skydiving and parachute organizations worldwide.

See also
 National Skydiving Museum
 United States Parachute Association

Notes

External links
 
 Parachutist magazine

Non-profit organizations based in Arizona
Organizations established in 1977
Parachuting organizations
Pinal County, Arizona
Rock-dumping vessels. Rock dumping vessels are a category of watercraft that exist for the purpose of dumping rocks on the seabed. They are able to transport and dump rocks of variable sizes.
The vessels range from large bulk-carrier style vessels, able to carry out precision operations using fallpipes, to smaller deck-loading vessels mainly used for erosion remediation.

Almost all such vessels are fitted with a dynamic positioning system, which makes it possible to position rocks very accurately.
 
Large cranes or fall pipes are used to dump the rocks from the vessels. Side-discharging by means of crane is usually done in shallow waters, while fall pipes are more commonly used in deep-water rock-dumping operations.
 
The most common need for rock dumpers is to provide protection to previously laid pipelines in areas where they may be damaged by fishing gear. Pipelines at risk are not trenched, but remain on the seabed. There are a number of protection methods for such pipelines, including the placement of concrete mattresses, but for areas where a long distance of pipeline has to be protected, a rock-dumping operation may be most cost efficient.

Eclogite is often used because of its high density.

The Belgian dredging companies Jan De Nul and DEME Offshore are two global providers of rock-dumping operations. From the Netherlands Van Oord and Boskalis are also worldwide operators of dump vessels.

Applications
Protection of sub-sea infrastructures  
Thermal isolation of pipelines
Leveling of the seabed prior to installing platforms, caissons, etc.

See also
Coastal erosion

References 

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Ship types
Pipe-laying ships
Stone (material)
Sandhayak-class survey ship (1981). The Sandhayak-class survey ships are a series of eight vessels built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata and Goa Shipyard, Ltd., Vasco for the Indian Navy. While Sandhayak, Investigator, Nirdeshak, Nirupak were built in GRSE; Sarveshak, Jamuna, Darshak, Sutlej were built by Goa Shipyard. The vessels equipped with four survey motorboats, two small boats and are powered by two diesel engines with a top speed of . They have a helicopter deck and are also armed with a Bofors 40 mm/60 gun mount for self-defense.

The ships are equipped with variety of next-generation surveying systems fitted onboard including multi-beam swath echo sounding system, differential GPS, motion sensors, sea gravimeter, magnetometer, oceanographic sensors, side scan sonars, automated data logging system, sound velocity profiling system, digital survey and processing system, amongst others.

Working as part of Indian Naval Hydrographic Department the Sandhayak-class survey ships are equipped with a range of surveying, navigational and communication systems. The ships are designed to undertake shallow coastal and deep oceanic hydrographic survey and collect oceanographic and geophysical data required for the production of digital navigational charts and publications. Besides carrying out their primary role of hydrographic survey, they can also assist in times of war and natural calamities as troop transports and casualty holding ships. The ships are also equipped with ROV, AUV & USV.

Service history
 was decommissioned on 19 December 2014.

The lead ship of the class  was decommissioned on 4 June 2021 after 40 years in service.

The third ship in the class  was decommissioned after 38 years of service on 29 January 2024 in Visakhapatnam.

Ships in the class

Gallery

See also
List of active Indian Navy ships

Citations

References

External links

 
Survey ships of the Indian Navy
Auxiliary research ship classes
Maulana Abul Kalam Hyderabad Sujala Saravanthi scheme. The Maulana Abul Kalam Hyderabad Sujala Saravanthi scheme is a drinking water project in Hyderabad on the Godavari River. It is expected to start by December 2013. It draws water through the Yellampalli project.

The Project
The total pipeline length is 186 km. It passes through the Karimnagar, Medak and Ranga Reddy districts at an expected cost of 3375 crores.

References

Hyderabad district, India
Water supply infrastructure in India
Proposed infrastructure in Telangana
Memorials to Abul Kalam Azad
Proposed water supply infrastructure
Watkins-Johnson Company. Watkins-Johnson Company was a designer and manufacturer of electronic devices, systems, and equipment.  The company, commonly referred to as "W-J", was formed in 1957 by Dean A. Watkins and H. Richard Johnson, and was headquartered in Palo Alto, California.  Its products included microwave tubes, followed by solid-state microwave devices, electronic warfare subsystems and systems, receiving equipment, antennas, furnaces and semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and automated test equipment.

History
Partial Corporate Timeline

 December 1957: Watkins-Johnson Company was founded
 June 1963: Acquired Stewart Engineering Company, a manufacturer of backward-wave oscillators
 Fall 1967: Acquired Communication Electronics, Inc. (CEI) of Rockville, Maryland, producer of receivers and related equipment
 June 1968: Listed on New York Stock Exchange
 1970: Acquired RELCOM, manufacturer of electronic components such as mixers
 1970: Acquired antenna product line from Granger Associates
 1978: Opened plant in San Jose, California
 April 1995: Microwave surveillance systems unit sold to Condor Systems, Inc. 
 October 1997: Military devices and subsystem businesses sold to Stellex Industries 
 July 1999: Semiconductor Equipment Group sold to Silicon Valley Group
 August 1999: Telecommunications Group sold to Marconi North America 
 October 1999: Wireless Products Group sold to Fox-Paine and Company 
 August 2000: Initial Public Offering of WJ Communications, W-J successor, by Fox-Paine on NASDAQ 
 March 2008: WJ Communications acquired by TriQuint Semiconductor

The Watkins-Johnson plant in Scotts Valley, California was discovered to have soil and groundwater contamination in 1984. It was added to the EPA's Superfund list in 1990.

References

External links 
 Watkins-Johnson history site
 W-J Tech Notes archive

Electronics companies established in 1957
Defunct companies based in California
Companies based in Palo Alto, California
Defunct semiconductor companies of the United States
Superfund sites in California
Electronics companies disestablished in 2008
2008 disestablishments in California
1957 establishments in California