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Heaven Rubber Bandit. The Rubber Bandit was an experimental aircraft, designed and built in the 1990s by George Heaven, of Van Nuys, California, which was powered by a rubber-band motor.

Development
George Heaven was a pilot and aeronautical engineer who wanted to make the first flight in a rubber powered airplane.  Development work included the building and testing of a th scale free flight model, which had a  wingspan. This was followed by building and testing of a  scale rubber powered, radio-controlled model, which had a  wingspan. The latter craft was said to be the largest rubber-powered airplane to have taken off and flown under its own power.

The full-sized craft, dubbed the Rubber Bandit, was of conventional configuration. It was a high-wing monoplane, fitted with a tractor propeller. The craft's primary structure was made of carbon-fiber and Kevlar tubing, with the wings and tail surfaces being built from carbon-fiber ribs, and covered in blue Mylar film. The wing was of constant chord, with the outer panels set at a slight dihedral. There were no ailerons, with all control being via the tail surfaces, which were operated by remote control servos. The fuselage consisted of a single tube, within which the rubber-motor was contained. A small nacelle, located under the fuselage and   below the wing, accommodated the pilot and a passenger.

Rubber motor

The motor was made of -wide rubber, folded into 800 strands, and measured   long and would be wound up to 800 revolutions. The motor is lubricated with 3 gallons of castor oil. According to an article in Flying the motor, fully wound, would initially generate the equivalent of , at high torque and rpm, before reducing down to  after 20 seconds. The motor would run for an estimated 90 seconds, sufficient for the airplane to take off and make a  flight.

Testing
Initial media coverage indicated the airplane would be completed and flight testing undertaken before the end of 1996. A 1998 Los Angeles Times article reported that the first taxi tests took place in March 1998, with the second being on May 3.  A 2011 article published on the Sustainable Skies website reported that testing of the Rubber Bandit had continued through to 2003, with some short hops but no flights being made.

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High-wing aircraft
1990s United States experimental aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Cruciform tail aircraft
Unflown aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Wang 3300. The Wang 3300 was an minicomputer released by Wang Laboratories in 1971.

Description 
Model with machine time sharing created between Wang 4000 and Wang 2200. Wang's first computer, the Wang 3300, was an 8-bit integrated circuit general-purpose minicomputer designed to be the central processor for a multi-terminal time-sharing system. Byte-oriented, it also provided a number of double-byte operand memory commands. Core memory ranged from 4,096 to 65,536 bytes in 4,096-byte increments. Up to 16 teletype terminals could be connect to one 3300. Wang claimed at the time that it was "the most easily operated minicomputer time-sharing system available" but it has become to be seen as a "false start" since programs, stored on paper tape, took up to 40 minutes to load and it only used the physical teletype terminals instead of CRTs.

Development began after hiring Rick Bensene in June 1968. The software was developed by PHI Computer Services, which Wang had purchased in 1968, on an IBM 360/65 emulating the 3300. The product was announced in February 1969 and shipped to its first customer on March 29, 1971.

References

External links 
 Wang 3300 Extensive information about the Wang 3300
 Wang 3300 Emulator A true emulator of the Wang 3300
 Wang Laboratories: From Custom Systems to Computers
 Wang 3300 on YouTube Video showing a running Wang 3300 System

Minicomputers
Computer-related introductions in 1971
Wang Laboratories
BASIC programming language
Vimal Kapur. Vimal Kapur (born 1965) is an Indian-American business executive and CEO of the American multinational conglomerate Honeywell as of June 2023.

Early life
Vimal Kapur was born in India in 1965. He attended the Thapar Institute of Engineering in Patiala and graduated as an electronics engineer with a specialization in instrumentation in 1986.

Career
Kapur began his career at a Honeywell  JV in 1989. He worked his way through the company and was eventually named Managing Director of Honeywell Automation India Ltd. (HAIL) in 2006.  He held that position for four years. Then, in 2010, he became VP of Global Marketing and Strategy for Honeywell Process Solutions, and VP and General Manager of Honeywell Process Solutions Advanced Solutions. 

In 2014, Kapur was named President of Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS), where he steered  the company through the oil and gas downturn.  He held that position until 2018, when he was promoted to President and CEO of Honeywell Building Technologies (HBT) in Atlanta, Georgia. 

In 2021, Kapur moved to Houston, Texas and took on the role of President and CEO of Honeywell Performance Materials & Technologies (PMT).

In July 2022, Kapur was named as president and chief operating officer (COO) of Honeywell.

In March 2023, Honeywell announced that Kapur had been appointed to the board of directors, and that he would replace Darius Adamczyk as CEO of the company effective June 1, 2023.

See also
 List of chief executive officers

References

External links
 Official Honeywell page

Honeywell people
1965 births
Living people
American chief executives of Fortune 500 companies
American people of Indian descent
Sergey Koren. Sergey Koren is an American bioinformatician who is an associate investigator in the genome informatics section at the National Human Genome Research Institute. 

After completing his M.S., Koren joined the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) as a bioinformatics engineer under the supervision of Granger Sutton. During his three years at JCVI, he contributed to the development of the Celera Assembler, which has been used to assemble both the Drosophila melanogaster and human genomes. In parallel, Koren worked under the supervision Mihai Pop at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he developed several tools for metagenome assembly and analysis. 

In 2010, Koren joined the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) where he led genome assembly development and pioneered the use of single-molecule sequencing for the reconstruction of complete genomes. In 2015, Koren joined the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) as a founding member of the genome informatics section. He is an associate investigator in the Genome Informatics Section, Center for Genomics and Data Science at the National Human Genome Research Institute. In 2022, he was one of the lead authors on the publication reporting the first complete female human genome. In 2023, the Partnership for Public Service named, Koren, Arang Rhie, Adam M. Phillippy and the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium as finalists for the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal in the field of Science, Technology and Environment for "conducting the first complete assembly of the human genome".

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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
National Institutes of Health people
American bioinformaticians
21st-century American biologists
21st-century American mathematicians
Wang 4000. The Wang 4000 was the first programmable computer system from Wang Laboratories, released in 1967.

Description 
However, already in the spring of 1968, An Wang, seeing that he was not able to compete with the PDP-8, focused on a new computer — model 3300. Allowed the use of peripheral devices, in particular printers.

References

External links 
 Wang 4000 Computer Extensive information about the Wang 4000
 Wang 4000 on YouTube Discussing the Wang 4000

Minicomputers
1967 introductions
Wang Laboratories
Sur-Ron. Surron is a Chinese company that designs, develops and manufactures electric dirt bikes. The company sells 4 models, the Light Bee S, the Light Bee X, Ultra Bee, and their most powerful model, the Storm Bee.

Company 
In 2014, three motorcycle enthusiasts in China. In March 2018 they launched their first model, the LBX, a light-weight electric dirt bike.

In 2014, three motorcycle enthusiasts in USA. In March 2018 they launched their first model, the LBX, a light-weight electric dirt bike.

By August 2022, the company had more than 100 employees, and 50% of the manufacturing process was performed by robots.

Models

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Battery electric vehicle manufacturers
Motorcycle manufacturers of China
Heike Vallery. Heike Vallery is a German mechanical engineer whose research involves the development of robot legs and exoskeletons to assist in human walking, including applications in prosthetics and medical rehabilitation. She is a professor of biomechanical engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and Alexander von Humboldt Professor at RWTH Aachen University.

Education and career
Vallery was a student of mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen University, earning a diploma there in 2004, after which she earned a doctorate (Dr. Ing.) from Technical University of Munich in 2009.

She was a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zürich and an assistant professor at Khalifa University before becoming a faculty member at Delft University of Technology in 2012.

She added an affiliation as honorary professor at Erasmus MC, a medical research center in Rotterdam, in 2019. She was named as an Alexander von Humboldt Professor at RWTH Aachen University, with a joint affiliation between Delft and Aachen, in 2022. She is currently Head of the Institute of Automatic Control at RWTH Aachen University, successing Dirk Abel.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
German mechanical engineers
German women engineers
RWTH Aachen University alumni
Technical University of Munich alumni
Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology
Academic staff of RWTH Aachen University
Academic staff of Khalifa University
20th-century German women engineers
21st-century German women engineers
20th-century German engineers
21st-century German engineers
Cox-Klemin Night Hawk. The Cox-Klemin Night Hawk is a 1.2-seater mail plane, made in the interwar period in the United States by the Cox-Klemin Aircraft Corporation for the US Air Mail Service. It was powered by a Liberty L-12 3 V-engine.

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Mailplanes
Cox-Klemin aircraft
Single-engined piston aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1925
Wicor Holding. Wicor Holding AG, formerly Weidann (International) Aktiengesellschaft, is a Swiss company based in Rapperswil-Jona, specializing in the manufacture of electrical insulators and plastics. In all, it operates 30 sites worldwide and employs around 4,000 people. Sales in 2008 totaled 733 million Swiss francs.

Activities 
The Wicor Group is divided into two separate divisions: Weidmann Electrical Technology for electrical insulation, especially for power transformers, and Weidmann Plastics Technology for the production of plastics for the automotive, sanitary, sensor, and medical industries.

History 
The company was founded in 1877 by Heinrich Weidmann. He set up business in the Rapperswill municipal mill he had taken over. Alongside the manufacture of cellulose-based electrical insulation in flat or roll form, he developed pressed plastics for the electrical industry, mainly for high-voltage circuit breakers.

In the absence of a successor, the company was run after the founder's death in 1914 by former executives and citizens of Rapperswill. The company became a joint-stock corporation.

As a result of the First World War, export markets collapsed and the company teetered on the brink of ruin. In 1923, the company was taken over by a consortium led by Jean Tschudi-Klaesi, an entrepreneur who owned a company in Ennenda that manufactured special cardboard for non-electrical applications.

The company was restructured by his son, Hans Tschudi-Faude, in 1925. He definitively positioned H. Weidmann AG in the insulation and plastics segment.

In 1968, the company passed to Felix Tschudi-Hubacher, son of the previous managing director. He integrated the family's former factory, Tschudi & Cie. AG into H. Weidmann AG and internationalized the company.

In 1997, the Tschudi & Cie. AG cardboard factory was sold, and the buildings were converted to produce automotive components. Since 2001, Franziska Tschudi has been running the company, making it the 4th generation of the family to control it.

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Chemical companies of Switzerland
Electronics companies of Switzerland
Companies based in the canton of St. Gallen
Rapperswil-Jona
Companies established in 1877
338th Fighter-Bomber Squadron. The 338th Fighter-Bomber Squadron (, 338 MΔΒ), callsign "Ares", is a squadron in service with the Hellenic Air Force, forming part of the 117th Combat Wing. It is based at Andravida Air Base, and is the last Hellenic Air Force unit operating the McDonnell Douglas F-4E aircraft.

History
The 338th Fighter-Bomber Squadron was established on 24 December 1952 at Elefsis Air Base, equipped with Republic F-84G Thunderjets. From April 1953 to November 1956 it was based at Larissa Air Base, before returning to Elefsis. In 1958 it became the first unit of the 115th Combat Wing in Souda Air Base on Crete, until the squadron's disbandment in January 1960.

The squadron was reconstituted, still at Souda, in August 1964, equipped with Republic F-84F Thunderstreaks. It continued in operation there until 30 June 1974, when it was disbanded and its aircraft transferred to the 340th Fighter-Bomber Squadron. On 1 July, the squadron was reactivated as part of 110th Combat Wing at Andravida Air Base, equipped with McDonnell Douglas F-4E aircraft. The squadron achieved operational capability with the F-4 in March 1975. 

In 1981, the 338th Squadron and the 337th All-Weather Squadron exchanged their F-4E aircraft with one another. In 1991, the F-4Es were replaced with a newer version of the aircraft from the US inventory, as part of the F-4E Southeastern Regional Agreement (SRA). The F-4Es in Greek service were subjected to a further modernization program (Peace Icarus 2000) in the early 2000s.

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Military units and formations established in 1952
Squadrons of the Hellenic Air Force
Elis
1952 establishments in Greece
Jill Boyce. Jill MacDonald Boyce is an American video engineer known for her work on video compression, immersive video, and the standardization of video formats. Formerly director of algorithms at Vidyo, vice president for research and innovation at Thomson Multimedia, chief media architect and Intel Fellow at Intel, and co-founder and co-CEO of immersive video startup Vimmerse, she is Distinguished Scientist at Nokia. 

Boyce majored in electrical engineering at the University of Kansas, graduating in 1988 as the university's Outstanding Senior in Electrical Engineering. She earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1990.

She was elected as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2019 class of fellows, "for contributions to video coding". In 2021 she was a recipient of the University of Kansas's Distinguished Engineering Service Award.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American electrical engineers
American women electrical engineers
University of Kansas alumni
Princeton University alumni
Fellows of the IEEE
Lithium tellurite. Lithium tellurite is an inorganic compound, with the chemical formula Li2TeO3. It crystallises in the monoclinic crystal system, with space group C2/c. It can be prepared by reacting lithium oxide, lithium hydroxide or lithium carbonate with tellurium dioxide. It reacts with lithium fluoride at high temperatures in a 3:1 stoichiometric ratio to obtain Li7(TeO3)3F.

References

Lithium compounds
Tellurites
Vehicles Emissions Regulation 2007. The Vehicles Emissions Regulation 2007 (EC) No 715/2007 is an EU Regulation that sets maximum levels of toxic emissions from motor vehicles.E McGaughey, Principles of Enterprise Law: the Economic Constitution and Human Rights (Cambridge UP 2022) ch 15, 526-7 Since the introduction of the Euro 1 emission standard, the law has been tightened towards the EU's phase-out of fossil fuel vehicles by 2035. Member states may act sooner, as may the EU.

Contents
Article 2 defines the categories of vehicle to which the limits apply, up to those under 2,610 kg.

Article 4 states manufacturers must ‘demonstrate that all new vehicles sold, registered or put into service in the Community are type approved in accordance with this Regulation’. 

Article 6 requires manufacturers to ‘provide unrestricted and standardised access to vehicle repair and maintenance information’ should there be any non-compliance. 

Article 13 requires penalties imposed by member states for breach are ‘effective, proportionate and dissuasive’, and breaches include any ‘false declarations’ as well as ‘use of defeat devices’.

Related legislation
The Heavy Vehicle Emission Regulation (EU) 2019/1242, arts. 4–5 applies to heavier vehicles and has limits for CO2.

See also
EU law
UK enterprise law

Notes

References
E McGaughey, Principles of Enterprise Law: the Economic Constitution and Human Rights (Cambridge UP 2022) ch 15, 526-7 

United Kingdom enterprise law
European Union energy law
European Union transport law
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Heavy Vehicle Emission Regulation 2019. The Heavy Vehicle Emission Regulation 2019 (EU) 2019/1242 is an EU regulation that limits the toxic exhausts of lorries, trucks or other heavy vehicles by auto-makers.

Contents
Article 1 sets the scope of the Regulation, and requires heavy vehicle fleet emissions are reduced by 15% by 2025 and 30% by 2030. 

Article 4 imposes limits for CO2 from heavy vehicles, according to Annex I. 

Article 5 requires zero emission vehicle factors to be introduced for each manufacturer.

See also
EU law
UK enterprise law

Notes

References
E McGaughey, Principles of Enterprise Law: the Economic Constitution and Human Rights (Cambridge UP 2022) ch 15 

United Kingdom enterprise law
European Union energy law
European Union transport law
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Algerian frigate Rais Kellik. Rais Kellik (902) (also transliterated Rais Kellich, ) is a Koni II-class frigate of the Algerian National Navy.

Design and description 
Rais Kellik is a Project 1159T frigate (NATO reporting name: Koni II). The frigate has a length of , beam of  and draught of . The frigate has a displacement of  standard and  at full load. The ship is powered by combined diesel and gas (CODAG) propulsion system, consisted of one SGW Nikolayev M8B gas turbine with  and two Russki B-68 diesel engines with  connected to three shafts. She has a top speed of  with gas turbine and  with diesels only, and range of  with cruising speed of . The ship has a complement of 130 personnel.

The ship is armed with two AK-726 twin-barrel 76 mm guns and two AK-230 twin-barrel 30 mm autocannons. For anti-submarine warfare, the frigate are equipped with a pair of RBU-6000  Smerch-2 12-barrel anti-submarine rocket launchers and two depth charge racks. The ship could also carry 22 naval mines. As built, Rais Kellik was equipped with one 4K33 Osa-M (SA-N-4 'Gecko') twin missile launcher with capacity of 20 missiles for anti-aircraft and limited anti-surface capability.

As built, the ship sensor suites includes 3P-60 UE weapons control, MR-302 Rubka ("Strut Curve") air/surface search radar, Don-2 navigation radar, "High Pole B" IFF, "Watch Dog" and "Quad Loop" Electronic Support Measures (ESM) systems, two optronic directors, and MG-322 hull-mounted sonar. Fire control for the weapons consisted of Fut-B ("Hawk Screech") radar for the 76 mm guns, MR-104 Rys ("Drum Tilt") radar for the 30 mm autocannons, and MPZ-301 ("Pop Group") radar for missile control. The vessel was also equipped with two PK-16 decoy-dispenser system which used chaff as a form of missile defense.

Modernization 
Rais Kellik underwent a modernization refit at Severnaya Verf in Saint Petersburg from late 2008 to 2012. The refit included the replacement of MR-302 Rubka with Pozitiv-ME1.2 radar, the removal of 4K33 Osa-M missile launcher and Fut-B radar, fitting of two twin 533 mm torpedo launchers amidships and replacement of ESM and decoy systems with new NRJ-6A ESM system and two PJ-46 decoy launchers.

Construction and career 
The frigate was laid down on 11 June 1980 at the A.M. Gorky Shipyard in Zelenodolsk with yard number 252. Launched on 30 April 1981, the ship was temporarily commissioned with the Soviet Navy on 30 November 1981 as SKR-35. She was commissioned into Algerian National Navy as Rais Kellik on 24 March 1982.

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Koni-class frigates
1981 ships
Ships built in the Soviet Union
Frigates of the Algerian National Navy
Dodge Racer. Dodge Racer (also shown in the manual as Dodge-Racer and DodgeRacer) is a maze video game programmed by Rob Re for Atari 8-bit computers and published by Synapse Software in 1981. It is a clone of the 1979 arcade video game Head On, where the player drives around a rectangular track, divided into lanes, collecting dots and avoiding collisions. Dodge Racer was the second release from Synapse and the company's first game.

Gameplay
A player-controlled car and enemy car move in opposite directions through a course of concentric rectangles. When a car passes through gaps in each of the four cardinal directions, it can change lanes. The goal is to collect all the dots without crashing into the other vehicle.

Up to four players can take turns or there's a there's a mode for two players to alternate between controlling the player and enemy car. There are options for whether the level fully resets after a crash, adding a second enemy car starting in round 3, having two cars from the start of the game, and enabling an automatic speed increase partway through a round.

The Dodge Racer track has six lanes, while Head On has five and  Dodge 'Em for the Atari VCS has four.

Development
Synapse Software co-founders Ihor Wolosenko and Ken Grant met Rob Re at an Atari computer user group. They had already been working on the database File Manager 800 and asked Re if they could sell Dodge Racer. It became the second release from Synapse, following File Manager 800, and the company's first game.

Dodge Racer is written in 6502 assembly language using a BASIC program for initialization. The Atari BASIC cartridge needs to be inserted on the Atari 400 and 800 computers.

Reception
Book of Atari Software 1983 gave an overall letter grade of C: "It is an addicting game, although I think it is a bit too fast and frustrating for beginners. It has decent graphics, presents a challenge, and the price is right". ANALOG Computing reviewer Tony Messina echoed parts of that, labeling the game "frustratingly addictive" and giving an 8 out of 10 for graphics and sound. Bill Kunkel compared the game to another clone of Head On in the March 1982 issue of Electronic Games:

References

External links
 
 Gameplay video

1981 video games
Atari 8-bit computer games
Atari 8-bit computer-only games
Maze games
Synapse Software games
Video game clones
Multiplayer and single-player video games