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John Lofting. John Lofting (1659 – 15 June 1742, London), originally Jan Loftingh, was an engineer and entrepreneur from the Dutch Republic.

Biography
His parents were Herman and Johanna. He moved to London, England, before 1686. He patented two inventions: the "sucking worm engine" (a fire engine) and a horse-powered thimble knurling machine. His mill was set up in Islington, where Lofting Road is named after him. However, in or about 1700, he moved his main operation to Great Marlow in Buckinghamshire to take advantage of the River Thames' ability to turn a water wheel which improved productivity, enabling the production of over 2 million thimbles per year.

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1659 births
1742 deaths
Emigrants from the Dutch Republic
Immigrants to England
British engineers
Dutch engineers
History of firefighting
English inventors
Ravin 500. The Ravin 500 is a South African amateur-built aircraft, designed and produced by Ravin Aircraft of Pretoria. The aircraft first flew on 15 September 2002 and is supplied as a kit for amateur construction or as a complete ready-to-fly aircraft.

Design and development
The Ravin 500 is based on the design of the aluminum Piper PA-24 Comanche, but rendered in composite materials and scaled down some 6–7%.

The Ravin 500 features a cantilever low-wing, a four-seat enclosed cabin, accessed by doors, retractable tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. The cabin is  wide.

The aircraft's  span wing has an area of  and mounts flaps as well as winglets. The aircraft's recommended engine is the  Lycoming IO-540 four-stroke powerplant. Construction time from the supplied kit is estimated as 1400 hours.

Operational history
The company reported that by December 2013 that a total of 22 aircraft or kits had been supplied and that 17 of these have been completed and flown.

Specifications (Ravin 500)

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External links

Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Dewoitine D.770. The Dewoitine D.770 was a prototype French twin-engined attack aircraft of the late 1930s. It was intended as a replacement for the Breguet 693 but testing was incomplete by the time that of the Franco-German Armistice, and no production followed.

Design and development
In August 1937, the Service Technique de l'Aeronautique (or French Air Ministry) released a specification for a light attack bomber. The Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Midi (SNCAM), the nationalised Dewoitine company, proposed a three-seater twin-engined aircraft to meet this requirement, with two prototypes being ordered, with the Dewoitine D.770 to be powered by two Hispano-Suiza 12Y V12 engines and the Dewoitine D.771 to be powered by two Gnome-Rhône 14N radial engines but otherwise similar to the D.770. In the meantime, it was decided to adapt the Breguet 690 twin-engined fighter aircraft to an attack aircraft, with 200 Breguet 691 attack aircraft ordered in June 1938.

The prototype D.770 was completed at SNCAM's Toulouse factory in the spring of 1939. It was a mid-winged cantilever monoplane of stressed skin all-metal construction, with a monocoque fuselage and a retractable tailwheel undercarriage. A 20-mm cannon and two 7.5 mm machine guns were mounted in the aircraft's nose, and could be depressed to an angle of -15 degrees aimed by the pilot. A single machine gun was flexibly mounted in the dorsal position, with two more machine guns in a ventral position, while eight  bombs could be carried in a bomb-bay. The crew of three were protected by  of armour.

The D.770 made its maiden flight on 27 June 1939, flown by test pilot Marcel Doret. While the aircraft demonstrated good speed, it suffered from engine cooling problems and poor stability, and testing was slow, and was not complete in June 1940 when the Franco-German Armistice occurred resulting in the test programme being abandoned. Although the D.771 was completed in December 1939, it never flew, as the French Air Force by now preferred the larger and more capable Bloch 175 and SNCAM were busy with the more urgent Dewoitine D.520 fighter. Both prototypes were scrapped in 1941.

Specifications (D.770)

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Dewoitine D-770

1930s French bomber aircraft
D.770
Mid-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1939
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft
Institut Pprime. Institut Pprime (sometimes written Institut P') is a CNRS laboratory created in 2010 and based in Poitiers, France.

Presentation 
The institute depends from the University of Poitiers, ENSI Poitiers and Ensma and has the UPR number 3346. It is the second-largest laboratory in engineering science in France with 572 people working for it in 2014. It has locations on both the campus of Poitiers and Futuroscope. It is currently led by Yves Gervais since 2014 after Jean-Paul Bonnet.

The laboratory is sub-divided into three departments:
 Physics and Mechanics of Materials
 Fluids, Thermal and Combustion Sciences
 Mechanics, Structures and Complex Systems

It is the merger of six previous laboratories which were:
 LCD , Laboratoire de combustion et de détonique (Laboratory of Combustion and Detonics) UPR 9028
 LEA , Laboratoire d’études aérodynamiques (Laboratory of Aerodynamic Studies) UMR 6609
 LET, Laboratoire d’études thermiques (Laboratory of Thermal Studies) UMR 6608
 PhyMat, Laboratoire de physique des matériaux (Laboratory of Materials Physics) UMR 6630
 LMPM, Laboratoire de mécanique et physique des matériaux (Laboratory of Mechanics and Physics of Materials) UMR 6617
 LMS, Laboratoire de mécanique des solides (Laboratory of Solid Mechanics) UMR 6610

See also 
 IC2MP, a laboratory specializing in chemistry in Poitiers

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Physics research institutes
University of Poitiers
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Research institutes established in 2010
2010 establishments in France
Travel Air 1000. The Travel Air 1000 was an American single-engined biplane, the first product of the newly formed Travel Air Manufacturing Company of Wichita, Kansas. It led to a line of Travel Air biplanes produced until 1930 when the company was bought by Curtiss-Wright.

Design and development
The Travel Air Company was formed in early 1925. The Travel Air 1000 was the first design by the company. A conventional biplane with two open cockpits in tandem, with the pilot at the rear. It was powered by a  Curtiss OX-5 engine and had a conventional landing gear with a tailskid. The Travel Air 1000 registered NC241 first flew on 13 March 1925 flown by Walter Beech. With some minor changes it was developed into the Travel Air 2000.

Aircraft on display
The Travel Air 1000 is owned by the Experimental Aircraft Association and is on display at the Beechcraft Heritage Museum in Tullahoma, Tennessee.

Specifications

References

Notes

Bibliography

1920s United States civil utility aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
1000
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1925
Tapanee Levitation 2. The Tapanee Levitation 2 is a Canadian STOL amateur-built aircraft, designed and produced by Tapanee Aviation of Mont-Saint-Michel, Quebec. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

The Levitation 2 was offered for sale in 2011, but as of 2012 the company no longer advertises that it is available.

Design and development
The aircraft is a two-seat development of the four-seat Tapanee Levitation 4. It features a strut-braced high wing, an enclosed cockpit with two seats in side-by-side configuration that is  wide, fixed tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The Levitation 2 is made from welded steel tubing and aluminum, with its flying surfaces covered with doped aircraft fabric. Its  span wing has an area of  and mounts flaps. The wing is supported by "V" struts and jury struts. The aircraft's recommended engine power range is  and standard engines used include the  Lycoming O-320 four-stroke powerplant. Construction time from the supplied kit is estimated as 1750 hours.

Operational history
In 2007 a single example was registered with Transport Canada and in December 2011 the company reported one aircraft had been completed.

Specifications (Levitation 2)

References

External links
Photo of the sole Tapanee Levitation 2

Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Tapanee Aviation aircraft
One Nevada Transmission Line. One Nevada (ON Line) is a , 500-kilovolt, 600-megawatt power line that runs from Southern to Northern Nevada. NV Energy owns 25% of the transmission line and operates and offers the line's capacity under the terms of NV Energy's Open Access Transmission Tariff. Great Basin Transmission South (a subsidiary of LS Power) owns 75% of the line. The line runs from the new Robinson Summit Substation in Ely to Apex, connecting with the existing NV Energy Harry Allen Generating Station, and uses tubular guyed-V towers on a single point foundation.

History
Construction on the $510-million (equivalent to $ in ) line began in 2010. The line provides a way to connect renewable energy projects along the eastern edge of Nevada with the existing electrical grid.

In February 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy issued a $343-million (equivalent to $ in ) loan guarantee to finance the project. The project also includes the new Robinson Summit Substation, interconnection to the Harry Allen Substation, expansion of the Falcon-Gonder Substation, and new telecommunication facilities.
The line was expected to be energized in 2013. The line was energized in January 2014.

The line is part of the larger Southwest Intertie Project Transmission Line (SWIP) project which will extend the line north to Jerome County, Idaho. The extension will create a  line. The extension's backers received a $331 million Department of Energy loan in April 2024 to get construction started.

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Energy infrastructure in Idaho
Energy infrastructure in Nevada
Ely, Nevada
Energy infrastructure completed in 2013
Tom Weatherston. Tom Weatherston (born February 15, 1950) is an American industrial engineer and Republican politician.  He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 2013 through 2019, representing the northern half of Racine County.

Early life

Born in Buffalo, New York, Weatherston served in the United States Air Force as a civil engineer and was stationed in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. He went to Erie Community College, where he received an associate degree. He then graduated from Buffalo State College, where he received his bachelor's degree in industrial engineering. In 1977, Weatherston was hired by the Modine Manufacturing Company and moved to Racine, Wisconsin.

Political career
In 2010, Weatherston was elected to the Caledonia, Wisconsin, Village Board of Trustees and served until 2013.

In November 2012, Weatherston was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in the newly redrawn 62nd Assembly District. He won re-election in 2014 and 2016 without opposition.

In 2017, Weatherston spearheaded the law proposal American Laws for American Courts banning Sharia in Wisconsin. It was criticised by the president of NAML, Asifa Quraishi-Landes, through statement "They see any acknowledgment of Sharia in American Muslim life as a first step to the Trojan Horse."

In April 2018, Weatherston announced that he would not seek re-election to a 4th term.

He instead ran to rejoin the Caledonia Village Board of Trustees in 2019.  He defeated incumbent trustee Jay Benkowski in the April 2, 2019, spring general election.

Weatherston is a member of Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 767 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10301.

Electoral history

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Living people
Politicians from Buffalo, New York
Politicians from Racine, Wisconsin
University at Buffalo alumni
Military personnel from Buffalo, New York
Wisconsin city council members
Republican Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly
1950 births
People from Caledonia, Wisconsin
21st-century members of the Wisconsin Legislature
Sokol Eshelon. Sokol-Eshelon () is a Soviet/Russian laser weapon–based anti-satellite system. It is an airborne laser based on a Beriev A-60 aircraft. In 2012 it was reported that the project is back under development and is intended for the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces and later the Russian Aerospace Forces once completed.

A-60

The Beriev A-60 aircraft is a laser research plane produced by Beriev based on their Il-76 transport. Development seems to have started in 1981 with the laser installed in 1983. A second plane was built in 1991. The plane contains a special nose cone with a laser targeting system.

Sokol-Eshelon
The Sokol Eshelon project started in 2003 and was first made public in the annual report of contractor Khimpromavtomatika in 2005. Other mentions include Almaz-Antey's annual report in 2006 and in a report by Radiofizika in 2009 where they mentioned their development of radar for the plane. Details also emerged due to a court case between Almaz-Antey and Beriev over payments to a subcontractor. The contract between the two parties was connected to a contract no. 5933 Almaz-Antey holds with military unit 21055. This contract is supervised by the Ministry of Defence's 27th Military Representative Office. The project seems to be known under the codename Duelyant ().

In 2009 the plane was involved in a test to illuminate Japanese satellite AJISAI which was at an orbital height of 1,500 km. The test involved seeing if a reflection of the laser off the satellite could be picked up, and was not intended to damage the satellite.

The laser has been given the codename 1LK222. The purpose of the laser is to blind the sensors of enemy satellites rather than destroy them.

See also
Related development:
 Beriev A-60
 Ilyushin Il-76

Comparable systems:
 Boeing NC-135
 Boeing YAL-1

References 

2010s Russian military aircraft
Space weapons
Military lasers
FN Ballista. The FN Ballista is a sniper rifle developed by FN Herstal. The company states that the Ballista's design compares with the Remington MSR, the Sako TRG M10, the Armalite AR-30, and the Accuracy International AWM. The Ballista eventually was defeated by the Remington MSR, which was selected as the winner of the US Military PSR competition.

Design
The Ballista is a modular, air-cooled, magazine-fed, manually operated, bolt-action sniper rifle that is multi-caliber capable. It comes standard equipped with several MIL-STD 1913 rails located at both the 6 and 12 o'clock positions of the rifle in order to mount various attachments that will fit the operator's needs. Additional rails are also available as optional accessories. The Ballista features a fully adjustable, side-folding stock that can be outfitted with a monopod as well.

References

External links 
 
 FNH Firearms Blog

.338 firearms
.338 Lapua Magnum rifles
FN Herstal firearms
Bolt-action rifles of Belgium
Sniper rifles of Belgium
Felix Vulis. Felix Jeff Vulis (born 11 October 1955) is a Russian businessman. He is the chief executive of Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation plc (ENRC), a British multinational natural resources company.

Early life
Vulis graduated with an MSc degree in electrical engineering from the Novocherkassk Technical Institute and has an MBA from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

Career
He has been chief executive of ENRC since 20 August 2009, having joined the company in 2001. He resigned in February 2011, citing family commitments, but was reappointed in September 2011.

References

1955 births
Living people
American chief executives
American corporate directors
Moscow State Institute of International Relations alumni
20th-century American businesspeople
The Soul of the Robot. The Soul of the Robot is the sixth science fiction novel by Barrington J. Bayley, featuring the character Jasperodus from his 1956 story "Fugitive". The book tells of Jasperodus, the only robot with a soul, as he attempts to prove that he is the equal of the humans around him. It was published in 1974 by Doubleday, with a revised version published in 1976 by Allison and Busby.

Literary significance and reception
Rhys Hughes and John Clute both felt that this was one of Bayley's lighter yet slighter works, arguing that the themes of the novel were better handled in John Sladek's Roderick.

Brian Stableford's review compared Bayley's absurd stylings with that of Alfred Jarry, concluding that the book was "thoroughly likeable."

Alastair Reynolds remembered the "massive enjoyment" he had reading the book and mentioned that Jasperodus had formed part of the inspiration for the character of Hesperus in House of Suns.

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1974 American novels
1974 science fiction novels
Novels by Barrington J. Bayley
Doubleday (publisher) books
Allison and Busby books
Wings of Freedom Phoenix 103. The Wings of Freedom Phoenix 103 is an American amateur-built ultralight aircraft that was produced by Wings of Freedom of Hubbard, Ohio. When it was available it was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

In late 2019 the company website had been taken down and it is likely that production had ended.

Design and development
The Phoenix 103 is based on the discontinued Aero-Works Aerolite 103. With a standard empty weight of , it was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of . It features a strut-braced high-wing, a single-seat open cockpit with windshield, fixed tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft is made from aluminum tubing, with its flying surfaces covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its  span wing has an area of . Its recommended engine power range is ; standard engines used include the  two-stroke Hirth F-23. Construction time is estimated at 100 hours.

Operational history
By December 2011, the manufacturer reported that ten of the aircraft had been completed and flown.

Specifications (Phoenix 103)

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External links

Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
2000s United States ultralight aircraft
Wings of Freedom aircraft
Nigel Stein. Nigel MacRae Stein (born 15 October 1955) is a British businessman. He is the chief executive (CEO) of GKN, a British multinational automotive and aerospace components company.

Early life
Stein has a bachelor's degree in Engineering Science from the University of Edinburgh.

Career
He has been CEO of GKN since 1 January 2012. He was also president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders from 2011–2012, and a non-executive director of Wolseley plc.

References

1955 births
Living people
British chief executives
British corporate directors
British automotive engineers
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Coaxial (disambiguation). Coaxial, co-axial, co-ax or coax describes a physical arrangement wherein two or more structures share a common axis.

Coaxial may also refer to:

Electronics
 Coaxial cable or simply "coax," a shielded electrical cable widely used for transmission of radio-frequency signals and in computer networking cables
 Coaxial antenna, a half-wave dipole antenna configuration
 Coaxial loudspeaker, a 2-way loudspeaker with the high and low drivers sharing the same axis

Connectors
 Coaxial connector, any one of various common types of RF connector
 Coaxial power connector, low-current connectors commonly used on consumer electronics

Other uses
 Coaxial escapement, a clock mechanism
 Coaxial mount, a weapon mount placing two or more weapons in parallel
 Coaxial rotors, a contra-rotating twin-rotor configuration for helicopters

See also
 Coaxil, a drug used to treat depression
Walter H. Gahagan. Walter Hamer Gahagan (February 14, 1864 – December 18, 1930) was an American civil engineer and general contractor who owned a construction business based in Brooklyn, New York, and a shipyard in Arverne, Queens. Among other projects, his firm worked on the Lackawanna Cut-Off, an immense railroad project in northwestern New Jersey.

Personal
Born in Troy, Ohio, Gahagan married Lillian Rose Mussen, a schoolteacher who had grown up in Wisconsin. In 1897, they moved to Brooklyn and soon had twin boys, Frederick Mussen and William Corthell. In the summer of 1900, the family moved temporarily to Boonton, New Jersey, where Gahagan's company was building a reservoir. Their daughter, Helen, later an actress and politician, was born on November 20, just before the family moved back to Brooklyn. In 1902, another daughter, Lillian, was born, and the family moved to a large brownstone house at 231 Lincoln Place in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood. In 1910, their last child, Walter Jr., was born. In 1914, Gahagan bought a vacation home in Fairlee, Vermont, and the family thereafter spent parts of each summer there. When Gahagan died in 1931 at age 66, the family was living at 17 Prospect Park West in Brooklyn.

Helen Gahagan became an actress and a pioneering politician who served as a three-term U.S. Representative from California. In 1950, she lost the race for U.S. Senate to Richard Nixon.

Walter Gahagan Jr. (1910-1993) graduated from Princeton University in 1932 and Columbia University law school in 1935, competed in discus and exhibition football at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, then inherited the family business, which subsequently helped build the launching pad for the Apollo space missions and Kennedy and Newark airports.

Businesses
Gahagan founded his contracting business in 1899 and by 1924 owned two companies, W.H. Gahagan, Inc., and Gahagan Dredging, Inc., which employed between 100 and 4,000 people, depending on contracts, and which owned and operated dredges, steam shovels, and at least 10 steam locomotives — six Ten-Wheelers and four 0-4-0 switchers.  Between 1908 and 1911, Gahagan's firm was one of seven contractors who built the Lackawanna Cut-Off.

In 1918, Gahagan built a shipyard on Jamaica Bay on a plot of land measuring 600 by 2,000 feet "between Seaview [today, Beach 63rd Street] and Adah [today, DeCosta] avenues" in Arverne's Somerville Park neighborhood. The facilities included a sawmill measuring 600 by 200 feet, various auxiliary shops, 1,000 feet of launching ways, and 1.5 miles of rail siding that was laid by the Long Island Rail Road. A news report published before the yard's opening said that construction would take 30 days, that the yard would employ about 250 people, and that its first contract was a U.S. government order for 30 barges of 100 feet in length and 32 feet abeam. Among the other work done by the Arverne shipyard was the construction of a 10,000-ton floating wooden drydock for $800,000 for the Emergency Fleet Corporation.

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1864 births
1930 deaths
People from Troy, Ohio
American civil engineers
American businesspeople
Lackawanna Cut-Off
Engineers from Ohio
Decision Lens. Decision Lens is online decision-making software that is based on multi-criteria decision making.

Decision Lens implements the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
and the Analytic Network Process (ANP)
and is used in fields such as energy, medical research and group decision-making.

The software is supplied by Decision Lens Inc., which was founded in 2002 by John and Dan Saaty.

References

External links
Decision Lens web site

Decision-making software