omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
EasyPeasy. EasyPeasy (formerly named Ubuntu Eee) was a Linux-based operating system for netbooks. EasyPeasy was built upon Debian and Ubuntu, but was customized for low-powered computers and access to web applications. EasyPeasy is maintained as an open source project, though it primarily uses popular web applications or proprietary software over free and open source software alternatives (e.g. Skype over Ekiga) when the functionality offered is deemed better by its users.

Main characteristics
 Uses a recent Ubuntu release as a base
 Supports many netbooks
 Pre-installs some widely used applications and codecs like Adobe Flash and MP3
 Uses well known proprietary software, instead of open source alternatives
 Strives to deliver netbook functionality like the Social Desktop and automatic file synchronization

History
Ubuntu Eee was started by Jon Ramvi in December 2007. At that time it was only some scripts which modified a regular Ubuntu installation to support the Asus Eee PCs. In June 2008 the project was disbanded as a script and Ubuntu Eee 8.04 was released as a stand-alone distribution, based on Ubuntu 8.04 with EeePC support installed out of the box. On September 5 followed the 8.04.1 version. It used a new Linux kernel, came with a new user interface and Flash 10.

It was renamed EasyPeasy in January 2009, and has been downloaded well over a million times from the main mirror.

Trademark issues
On September 10, 2008, Canonical notified Jon Ramvi by email that the project's use of Canonical's names, URLs, and logos violated Canonical's trademarks in the original name Ubuntu Eee.
In response, the owners of the project announced that they would use a new name EasyPeasy and version 1.0 was released January 1, 2009.

Release history

See also

 Comparison of netbook-oriented Linux distributions
Ubuntu Netbook Edition

References

External links

Discontinued Ubuntu derivatives
Linux distributions
B&R. B&R Industrial Automation GmbH is an Austrian automation and process control technology company. It was founded in 1979 by Erwin Bernecker and Josef Rainer, and is headquartered in Eggelsberg, near Braunau in the state of Upper Austria.

The company specializes in machine and factory control systems, HMI and motion control. In addition to scalable complete solutions, B&R also offers individual components. The product range is oriented toward machinery and equipment manufacturing, and the company is also active in the field of factory and process automation.

In July 2017, the company was acquired by the Swiss ABB Group.

Performance 
B&R concluded 2015 with a revenue of €985 million, a 10% increase over the previous year. In 2014, the company posted growth of 13% to 535 million euros. In the same year, B&R opened two new subsidiaries in Japan. and Singapore.

The company's 2013 revenue of 475 million euros represented a growth of 11% over the previous year. 2013 also saw the founding of B&R subsidiaries in Turkey and Taiwan.

References

Robotics companies
Manufacturing companies of Austria
Economy of Upper Austria
2017 mergers and acquisitions
Synthestration. Synthestration is the art of composing music in the form of a MIDI mockup. A mockup is an extensive demo of a musical recording, for playback by computers triggering virtual instrument software or hardware, to emulate an orchestral recording.

The process involves inputting notes into a computer sequencing program as MIDI data, which then produces those tones via virtual instrument software/hardware. This is followed by significant programming in order to realistically mimic the ensemble playing of an orchestra.

The term is a combination of the words 'synth(esizer)' and 'orchestration'.

"Synthestrated" mockups are frequently used in projects requiring large budgets to record, such as film scores. A mockup allows the director, or producer, to hear the compositions in a setting that approximates their final version, allowing them to approve or alter the project before the budget has been committed to record live musicians. However, because the replication of acoustic instruments has progressed steadily, MIDI mockups are occasionally utilized in the final score on films, in cases where time has run out, or due to budget constraints. For big-budget films, mockups are eventually converted into an orchestrated score and recorded by a live orchestra.

References 

MIDI
Letov Š-39. 

The Letov Š-39 was a sport aircraft produced in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. It was a conventional, parasol-wing monoplane with fixed tailskid undercarriage, and seating for the pilot and passenger in tandem, open cockpits. Because the cabane struts were very short, and the wing therefore placed very close to the top of the fuselage, the cockpits had the unusual arrangement of the passenger's being in front of the wing while the pilot's was behind it. The outer half of each wing was fitted with fixed slats along the leading edge. An initial batch of 23 machines was built for use by Czech aeroclubs. These were followed by batches of aircraft with alternative powerplants.

Variants

Š-39
Prototype with Orion LL-50 engine followed by production batch with Walter Polaris engines
Š-139
Production model with Pobjoy R engine and Townend ring
Š-239
Production model with Walter Minor 4 engine

Specifications (Š-39)

References

 
 
 

1930s Czechoslovak sport aircraft
Letov aircraft
Parasol-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1931
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
A Cubic Mile of Oil. A Cubic Mile of Oil is a 2010 book by Hewitt Crane, Edwin Kinderman, and Ripudaman Malhotra. The title refers to a unit of energy intended to provide a visualizable scale for comparing large amounts of energy. Defined as the energy released by burning a cubic mile of oil, a "CMO" is approximately equal to  joule.
A cubic mile of oil was approximately the world's yearly consumption of oil at the time of the book and the book examines the possible replacements with other sources. For example, it would require building 32,850 wind turbines or 52 nuclear power plants, each year for 50 years, to obtain in one year the amount of energy contained in one cubic mile of oil. In 2022, Visual Capitalist estimated global consumption of oil translated into a cube 1706 meters on a side (or ~6% longer than 1 mile [1609 meters]).

See also

 Barrel of oil equivalent
 List of countries by energy intensity
 
 Energy density

References

External links
 'Doug Englebart's colloquium' Hewitt Crane discusses the state of the world's energy supply
  Ripudaman Malhotra talks about A Cubic Mile of Oil at the University of Toledo.
  Blog for posting updates to A Cubic Mile of Oil.

Energy economics
SRI International
Units of energy
Tupolev I-8. The Tupolev I-8 (also known as the ANT-13) was an experimental interceptor built in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.

Design and development
The I-8 was the first Soviet aircraft to exceed  in level flight. The aircraft was an exercise in developing the Polikarpov I-5 design by a group of engineers led by V. M. Rodionov, each of whom volunteered 70 hours of personal time to the project.

The I-8 first flew on 28 October 1930 with M. M. Gromov at the controls. Despite promising performance, the aircraft did not advance beyond prototype phase because there were no plans to acquire the Curtiss V-1570 engine, and no domestic equivalent was available.

Specifications (I-8)

References

I-08
1930s Soviet fighter aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1930
Burgess HT-2 Speed Scout. The Burgess HT-2 Speed Scout was an experimental United States observation/fighter seaplane.

Development and design
The Speed Scout's airframe was made of wood with a fabric covering, except for the engine cowling which was aluminum. The aircraft was powered by a Curtiss OXX-2 engine. Despite being underpowered, 8 were purchased by the US Navy in 1917 following demonstration flights on 19 May 1917.

Specifications

References

Bibliography
 

1910s United States military reconnaissance aircraft
Floatplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
HT2
Aircraft first flown in 1917
Enhanced avionics system. The Enhanced Avionics System (or EASy) is an integrated modular avionics suite and cockpit display system used on Dassault Falcon business jets since Falcon 900EX, and later used in other newer Falcon aircraft such as Falcon 2000EX and Falcon 7X.

EASy has been jointly developed by Dassault and Honeywell, and is based on Honeywell Primus Epic.

History
Dassault Aviation started to develop the EASy flight deck concept in the mid-1990s with a goal to have a much better integration of aircraft systems such as FMS.

EASy was first integrated and certificated on Falcon 900EX. The first EASy equipped 900EX was delivered in December 2003. Honeywell Primus Epic base of EASy was then integrated on other business jets and helicopters.

EASy was certified on the Falcon 2000EX in June 2004 with deliveries starting shortly after. Falcon 7X was developed from the ground-up with EASy avionics.

In October 2008, Dassault announced the launch of EASy phase II program at the annual NBAA meeting in Orlando. EASy phase II include several enhancements to EASy, such as:
 Synthetic vision system
 ADS-B Out
 paperless charts
 Future Air Navigation System (FANS-1/A) using Controller Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC)
 Localizer Performance with Vertical guidance (LPV)

EASy Phase II was certified on Falcon 900LX in June 2011  and on Falcon 7X in May 2013
.

Architecture
EASy architecture is based on Integrated Modular Avionics. The processing modules are called MAU (Modular Avionics Units). The core Operating System of EASy is provided by DDCI.

See also
 Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA)
 Cockpit display system
 Dassault Falcon 7X
 Dassault Aviation

References

External links
User Forum for EASy users

Avionics
Aircraft instruments
Schröckingerite. Schröckingerite is a radioactive yellow uranium-containing carbonate mineral, hydrated sodium calcium uranyl sulfate carbonate fluoride.  Schröckingerite crystallizes in the orthorhombic system, occurring as globular clusters, and fluoresces yellow-green under ultraviolet light.

Schröckingerite was first described in 1783 from an occurrence in Jáchymov, Bohemia, Czech Republic, and named for its discoverer, Julius Freiherr Schröckinger von Neudenberg (1814–1882).

References

External links
 

Uranium(VI) minerals
Carbonate minerals
Sulfate minerals
Triclinic minerals
Minerals in space group 2
Koolhoven F.K.55. The Koolhoven F.K.55 was a Dutch fighter prototype of the 1930s, which did not progress beyond the prototype stage.

Development

Design of a Koolhoven high-performance aircraft first started late in 1937. The result, finished in early 1938 was the F.K.55, a single-seat fighter of radical design with contra-rotating propellers and an engine housed behind the pilot. It had initially been proposed to do away with ailerons on the wings, and replace them with "slot-spoilers" for lateral control, however this idea was abandoned early in the project.

Of mixed metal and wood construction with wooden wings, the F.K.55's front fuselage was made of steel tube while wood formed the tail and rear fuselage. Its  Lorraine Pétrel engine afforded only just enough power to take off and to stay in flight. The production version would have used the more powerful  Lorraine 12R Sterna engine but this never happened.

Operational history
The aircraft flew for the first time on 30 June 1938. It flew for two minutes then landed. Underpowered, the FK.55 was cancelled in the same year.

Specifications

References

 
https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6125/5981226518_92bc933a1e_b.jpg Shows 20 mm madsen cannon in hub.

Aircraft with contra-rotating propellers
1930s Dutch fighter aircraft
F.K.54
Mid-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1938
Curtiss Model S. The Curtiss Model S (also known as Speed Scout or Model 10) was a single-seat fighter aircraft.

Development and design
The Model S was Curtiss' first attempt at a fast and maneuverable single-seat fighter. The first variant, S-1, had disappointing performance. In March 1917, new wings were attached to the S-1 fuselage and the project was redesignated S-2. In 1917, the S-3 became the first triplane in service in the United States. In 1918 and 1919, Curtiss experimented with seaplane versions of the S-3, designated S-4 and S-5. The S-6 was intended to be an improved S-3, but performance was poor and of the 12 ordered by the USASC, only 1 was delivered.

Variants

S-1 Speed Scout Biplane, unarmed
S-2 Wireless Biplane, updated S-1 lacked wing wires. First flight in March 1917.
S-3  Model 10 - Triplane derived from S-2. Four built.
S-4  Model 10A - Seaplane version of S-3 with 2 main floats
S-5  Model 10B - Seaplane version of S-3 with 1 main central float and two wingtip floats.
S-6  Model 10C - Triplane, improved S-3

Specifications (S-3)

References

Bibliography
 
 

1910s United States fighter aircraft
Model S
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Triplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1917
Biplanes
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Aerofan. Owned and founded by Fernando González Sanchez, Aerofan FTO is an approved Flight Training Organisation, operating from Madrid Cuatro Vientos Airport, Spain. Aerofan FTO currently operates one Cessna 152, one Cessna 172 and one Cessna 310 multi-engine aircraft. The flying school is approved for private and commercial pilot training. Flight attendant courses are also available.

History
Aerofan was founded in 1992 operating just one Cessna 152 for private pilot courses. Between 2002 and 2007 the flying school experienced several years of solid growth, largely due to its high percentage of non-Spanish students. During these years Aerofan FTO was one of the leading pilot schools in Spain focused on international flight training.

In 2009 owner Fernando González launched IMD Airways. For a period of two years IMD operated an MD87 in wet-lease operations. Since the launching of IMD, Aerofan FTO saw no further expansion or growth. Since 2011 Aerofan has seen a significant fleet reduction and now operates only three aircraft. Its other aircraft have all been sold, or scrapped.

IMD Airways operations have ceased. Aerofan however continues to operate.

Fleet
The Aerofan fleet includes the following aircraft (as of 11 January 2012) :

 FTO
1 Cessna 152
3 Cessna 172
1 Cessna 172RG
1 Cessna 310
1 Piper Seneca

 Airline
1 MD-87

External links

Aerofan
Aerofan Fleet

Airlines of Spain
Center for Bits and Atoms. The Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) was established in 2001 in the MIT Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  It is currently run by Neil Gershenfeld. This cross-disciplinary center broadly looks at the intersection of information to its physical representation.

From the original NSF proposal:

MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms is an ambitious interdisciplinary initiative that is looking beyond the end of the Digital Revolution to ask how a functional description of a system can be embodied in, and abstracted from, a physical form. These simple, profound questions date back to the beginning of modern manufacturing and before that to the origins of natural science, but they have revolutionary new implications that follow from the recognition of the computational universality of physical systems. We can no longer afford to ignore nature's capabilities that have been neglected by conventional digital logic; it is at the boundary between the content of information and its physical representation that many of science's greatest technological, economic, and social opportunities and obstacles lie.

Research
One of the early projects of the Center that has grown to become a global meme was the Fab lab—a model lab that could be set up quickly and inexpensively to provide basic fabrication capability for rapid prototyping of almost anything.  The idea was that these labs would become easy enough to create that they could be set up almost anywhere in the world, and could be both self-sufficient and of use to the local community to support whatever engineering or fabrication projects they could imagine.

Since the first fab lab in 2001, a global community of supporters has grown up, including a FabFolk charitable organization.  Roughly 100 groups calling themselves fab labs have grown up around the world, many supported at some stage by the CBA.

Academics/classes
The Center for Bits and Atoms is not a degree-granting department but does offer MIT courses within the MAS department at the graduate level.  
 MAS.863: How to Make (Almost) Anything
 MAS.961: How to Make Something That Makes (Almost) Anything
 MAS.864: The Nature of Mathematical Modeling
 MAS.862: The Physics of Information Technology

References

External links
  Center for Bits and Atoms

Massachusetts Institute of Technology research institutes
Sidney A. Murray Jr. Hydroelectric Station. The Sidney A. Murray Jr. Hydroelectric Station, also known as Louisiana Hydroelectric (LA Hydro), opened in response to a need for a non-polluting, less-costly power source for Vidalia, Louisiana. A site approximately 40 miles south of the town was selected for the new facility. The 192 MW plant started full-scale operations in 1990. It was designed to rely on the Mississippi River's natural flow and elevation drop at the Old River Control Structure, therefore not needing a large impound dam. It was also built in accordance with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers existing water management objective with minimal impacts on the surrounding environment. The station operates more continuously than most run-of-the-river hydro plants, with a capacity factor of approximately 55% and an estimated availability in excess of 99%.

It is currently under an approved 42-year power purchase contract with Louisiana Power & Light (a subsidiary of Entergy). The city of Vidalia purchases 6% of the power with an option to purchase up to 15% of the generated power.

The LA Hydro is the largest prefabricated power plant in the world. Its main business office is located in Vidalia.

Electricity Production

Notes 

Energy infrastructure completed in 1990
Buildings and structures in Concordia Parish, Louisiana
Hydroelectric power plants in Louisiana
Entergy
1990 establishments in Louisiana
HSC-21. Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 21 (HSC-21), nicknamed "Blackjacks", is an aviation unit of the United States Navy based at Naval Air Station North Island. HSC-21 is made up of five expeditionary detachments that deploy aboard ships including Combat Logistics Force support ships, Hospital Ships and Amphibious Assault ships, among others.  HSC-21 flies the Sikorsky MH-60S Seahawk helicopter.

History
HSC-21 was established as Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 11 (HC-11) "Gunbearers" on 1 October 1977 at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California (United States), to provide logistics support for the units of the United States Pacific Fleet. In April 2005, HC-11 was redesignated HSC-21 "Blackjacks".  During Operation Iraqi Freedom HSC-21 had shore base detachment as a part of the 2515th Naval Air Ambulance Detachment, Udari Army Airfield, Kuwait.  This detachment closed in Fall 2012.

See also

 History of the United States Navy
 List of United States Navy aircraft squadrons

References

External links
HSC-21 Official Website 

Helicopter sea combat squadrons of the United States Navy
Matus Bisnovat. Matus Ruvimovich Bisnovat (, 23 October 1905, Nikopol – 8 November 1977) was a Soviet aircraft and missile designer. Bisnovat attended the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI), graduating in 1931. In 1938, he headed a research team in Central Aero-Hydrodynamics Institute TsAGI, Zhukovsky, where several high-speed experimental airplanes were developed, the SK-1, SK-2 and SK-3.

From 1942 - 1944 Bisnovat oversaw the development of the "302" rocket/ramjet fighter in NII-3, supervised by Andrey Kostikov. In 1946 he became head of Plant no. 293 and a team of engineers formerly in the OKB-293 of Viktor Bolkhovitinov. There Bisnovat managed some later work on the Bereznyak-Isaev BI-1 Rocket-powered aircraft. In 1948, with engine designer Aleksei Isaev he worked on the supersonic aircraft "Bisnovat 5". In 1952 he developed the infrared homing air-to-air missile SNARS-250.

Bisnovat fell prey to a 1953 antisemitic campaign against "cosmopolitanism" instigated by rivals of Lavrentiy Beria. As a result he was ousted as head of Plant 293.

In 1954 Bisnovat became head of design bureau KB Molniya, where he oversaw the development of air-to-air missiles R-40, R-60 and R-73.

Bisnovat was awarded a doctorate in science in 1965.

He died in 1977 from complications due to diabetes.

Honours and awards
 Hero of Socialist Labour (including an Order of Lenin) and the gold medal "Hammer and Sickle" - For his great services to create new types of aircraft armament, and in connection with the 70th anniversary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in October 1975
 Two Orders of Lenin
 Order of the Red Banner of Labour
 Lenin Prize (1966)
 USSR State Prize (1973)

References

External links
  Matus Bisnovat at buran.ru
  Matus Bisnovat at testpilot.ru

1905 births
1977 deaths
Moscow Aviation Institute alumni
Heroes of Socialist Labour
Recipients of the Lenin Prize
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Recipients of the USSR State Prize
Ukrainian Jews
Soviet aerospace engineers
Soviet inventors
Soviet Jews
Soviet military engineers
Weapon designers from the Soviet Union
Deaths from diabetes in Russia
Burials at Vagankovo Cemetery
Sweetening (disambiguation). Sweetening is the process of making food more sweet. Wikipedia does not yet have an article on this process.

Sweetening may also refer to:

 Copper sweetening, a petroleum refining process
 Food sweetening, adding the basic taste of sweetness to a food
 Gas sweetening, a group of processes that use aqueous solutions of various amines to remove hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide from gases, see Amine gas treating
 Pipe sweetening, a method by which foul tasting residues are removed from the bowl and shank of a briar tobacco pipe
 Sweetening (show business), the use of a laugh track in addition to a live studio audience in television
 Sweetening, an audio technician terminology used for artificial laughter inserted into the show