omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
USCGC William Flores. USCGC William Flores (WPC-1103) is a  cutter homeported in Coast Guard District 7, Miami, Florida.

Design

Like her sister ships, she is equipped for coastal security patrols, interdiction of drug and people smugglers, and search and rescue. Like the smaller  she is equipped with a stern launching ramp. The ramp allows the deployment and retrieval of her high speed water-jet powered pursuit boat without first coming to a stop. She is capable of more than  and armed with a remote controlled  M242 Bushmaster autocannon; and four crew-served Browning M2 machine guns.

Operational history

On 1 April 2016, William Flores intercepted a small boat with twelve Cuban refugees on board. The refugees had gone off course, and had entered Bahamas territory.

Namesake

She is named after Seaman Apprentice William Ray Flores who died during the sinking of . At the cost of his own life Flores stayed aboard the capsizing cutter and used his belt to tie open a life jacket locker door. This action allowed life jackets to float on to the water as the cutter went down. He further distributed life jackets to shipmates in the water.
In November 2011 Flores was honored by having the third Coast Guard Sentinel-class cutter named after him.

References

Sentinel-class cutters
Ships of the United States Coast Guard
2011 ships
Ships built in Lockport, Louisiana
MetaLab, Ltd.. MetaLab is an interface design firm headquartered in Victoria, British Columbia that provides product management, software engineering and UX research services.

MetaLab was founded in 2006 by Andrew Wilkinson. In January 2017, MetaLab became a daughter company of Tiny. MetaLab also founded Pixel Union, which provides themes for platforms like Tumblr, Shopify and WordPress.

Its clients include Slack, Google, Uber, and Amazon.

Products
MetaLab has produced the following products:
 Ballpark, an online application that allows users to send invoices, receive payments, and bid on projects.
 Flow, a task management platform to create, organize, discuss, and accomplish tasks. In March 2011, MetaLab announced the launch of Flow for the web, iPhone and iPad. A redesign of Flow was released on 25th September 2013.
 Pixel Union, a collaboration between MetaLab and 45royale that creates curated internet themes for web pages and web platforms.

Mozilla
In March 2010, Andrew Wilkinson (co-founder of MetaLab) wrote a blog post claiming that Mozilla 'literally copied images straight off our site' for use in the design of their FlightDeck editor. In a updated blog post, Wilkinson stated that, "I just got off the phone with the team at Mozilla, who apologized and clarified a few things. The design which used our site’s design elements was a development build and according to them the design has been changed in newer builds. That said, it was used in their launch video as well as their blog post announcing the product. They told me that that the team who put together the blog post and video was unaware of the similarities at the time of inclusion. We’ve asked for a public apology, and I’ll be doing a follow-up post tomorrow."

References

Design companies of Canada
Companies based in Victoria, British Columbia
Design companies established in 2006
Canadian companies established in 2006
2006 establishments in British Columbia
Victoria foundry. Victoria foundry, (or works) may refer to:

UK
Victoria Foundry, Chesterfield. Predecessor to Markham & Co.
Victoria Foundry, Walmgate, York. 1850s establishment of the Walker Iron Foundry
Victoria Foundry/works, Bolton. See List of mills in Bolton
Victoria Foundry, Hyde Bank Road, New Mills, Derbyshire
Victoria Foundry, Garside Street, Bolton. Foundry of Knight and Wood, predecessor of J & E Wood
Victoria Works, Tunstall, Staffordshire. Foundry of William Robert Renshaw
Victoria Works, Birmingham, pen-nib factory built 1840.

Rest of world
Victoria Foundry, Ottawa
GFRP Lleida Pedestrian Bridge. The FRP Pedestrian Bridge or  in Lleida, Spain is the longest arch bridge made out of standard GFRP pultruded profiles.

The bridge spanning the Madrid-Barcelona high-speed rail link won the international “Footbridge Award 2005” in the category “Technology” for medium span (30m-75m) bridges.

Description
The structure is a tied-arch  long and rises . The deck is  wide. The bridge is entirely made out of GFRP pultruded profiles. The arch configuration was chosen so as to minimize serviceability problems due to the low modulus of elasticity of GFRP profiles. The choice of GFRP was influenced by the fact that the material is an electrical insulator and eliminates magnetic interference with the electrified railway.

The glass fibre reinforced plastic beams and panels used in the footbridge were manufactured in Denmark and assembled in Spain. The total cost of the structure was approximately $0.32million ($2350 per m2).

It was successfully installed in October 2001. The bridge was fabricated in only three months and erected by crane in just three hours.

References

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Arch bridges in Spain
Tied arch bridges
Bridges in Catalonia
Lleida
Diploma of Associate Engineer. Diploma of Associate Engineer or DAE is a three years post intermediate (grade 12) program of instructions in various engineering disciplines. It includes regular studies having classroom lectures, theoretical exams and practicals, workshop assignments, labs experiments, industrial projects and industrial tours. Diploma of Associate Engineer (DAE) is awarded by the Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPBTE), Sindh Boards of Technical Education and (FBISE) Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education  (Fbise.edu.pk) and is offered in various engineering disciplines such as electrical engineering, electronics engineering, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, biomedical engineering and petroleum engineering etc. A student can take admission in DAE after passing Secondary School Certificate (SSC) in science subjects or Technical School Certificate (TSC). Government of Pakistan recognises the DAE as equivalent to Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) pre-engineering for further study purpose.

Background 

DAE, which was first developed in 1950 has a three years duration. Diploma holders are often called associate engineers or sub engineers in Pakistan. Hundreds of government and private institutes across Pakistan offer this diploma. After successful completion, students can either join Bachelor of Engineering (BE) and Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree programs or find employment as supervisors, foremen, technicians, sub-engineers, draftsmen, overseers, chemical or gas plant operators, junior instructors or workshop superintendents.

Regional variations 

 At the federal level, the National Vocational and Technical Training Commission is the responsible government body for technical education.
 In the Punjab, the Punjab Board of Technical Education and the Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority are the responsible government bodies for technical education.
 In Sindh, the Sindh Board of Technical Education and the Sindh Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority are the responsible government bodies for technical education.
 In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Board of Technical Education and the Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority are the responsible government bodies for technical education.
 In Balochistan, the Balochistan Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority is the responsible government body for technical education.
 In Azad Kashmir, the Azad Jammu & Kashmir Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority is the responsible government body for technical education.

References 

Vocational education in Pakistan
KDX-IIA. KDX-IIA is an Aegis Combat System armed variant of the KDX-II,  of the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN). As of 2011 ROKN planned to build at least 6 ships of this class with a proposed displacement of 5500 ~ 7500 tons over the 2019 to 2026 time frame. It is the final part of the Korean Destroyer eXperimental program. Although the South Korean government has not released detailed documents about this class, it is likely to use stealth technology like KDX-II as well as having a more integrated sonar and better data link capabilities. All of these improvements are expected to enhance littoral combat as well as blue-water capabilities.

The ROKN expects it to make up a major part of the fleet. Each unit will cost around $500~$700 million.

This project has been revised into the Korean Next-Generation Destroyer (KDDX) program.

See also
Aegis Combat System
Korean Destroyer eXperimental
Republic of Korea Navy
KDX-II

References

External links 

Destroyers of the Republic of Korea Navy
Proposed ships
Patrick Tabeling. Patrick Tabeling is a French physicist, microfluidics pioneer in France, researcher at the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI ParisTech). He has published more than 200 articles in prestigious peer-reviewed journals and his work has been cited more than 14000 times. 
He has been the director of the Pierre Gilles de Gennes Institute for Microfluidics (IPGG), an interdisciplinary research institution in Paris which regroups more than 300 expert researchers.

Biography
Graduated from the École supérieure d'électricité (1974 promotion), Patrick Tabeling was a CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) researcher at the statistical physics laboratory of the École normale supérieure de la rue d'Ulm (ENS Ulm) from 1985 to 2001. In 2001, he moved to the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI ParisTech) where he created the group Microfluidics, Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanostructures laboratory. He was charged by the French National Centre for Scientific Research to coordinate the activity of research laboratories in microfluidics as a chairman of the French microfluidic network.

Patrick Tabeling has published "Introduction to Microfluidics" (Oxford University Press, 2005), was divisional editor of  Physical Review Letters, associated Editor of "Physics of Fluids". He is cofounder of IPGG (Institut Pierre Gilles de Gennes) and acted as director  (Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes) from 2011 to 2018. He  published more than 200 papers,  was elected to Academia Europaea (2010). He is the cofounder of MicroFactory (2014) and Minos Biosciences (2018).

Works
Patrick Tabeling's laboratory develops microfluidic applications  with industrial  and research laboratories of biology and analytical Chemistry of ESPCI and is concerned with fundamental topics such as wall slippage, self organization, droplet dynamics or stem cells.

Bibliography
 Patrick Tabeling, Introduction à la microfluidique (Introduction to Microfluidics), Belin, 2003.

References

Living people
French physicists
Year of birth missing (living people)
List of universities, colleges and schools in Casablanca. A List of universities, colleges and schools in Casablanca:

Public Colleges and universities
 Académie internationale Mohammed VI de l'aviation civile (AIAC)
 École Hassania des Travaux Publics (EHTP)
 EMLYON Business School
 École Nationale Supérieure d'Electricité et de Mécanique (ENSEM)
 École supérieure de technologie de Casablanca (EST)
École nationale des pilotes de ligne (ENPL)
École supérieure des industries du textile et de l'habillement (ESITH)
École nationale de commerce et de gestion de Casablanca (ENCGC)
École supérieure des beaux-arts de Casablanca (ESBAC)
École royale navale (ERN)
Institut supérieur d'études maritimes (ISEM)
Institut supérieur de commerce et d'administration des entreprises (ISCAE)
 Toulouse Business School
 University of Hassan II - Ain Chock
 University of Hassan II - Mohammedia

Private high schools and colleges
 American Academy Casablanca (AAC)
 Casablanca American School
 George Washington Academy (GWA)
 Lycée Lyautey
 Nelson C. Brown High School
Lycée Louis Massignon

Buildings and structures in Casablanca
Afzal Kahn (automotive designer). Afzal Kahn is a British automotive designer and entrepreneur. He is the founder of the Kahn group of companies: Kahn Design, the Chelsea Truck Company, Project Kahn, Flying Huntsman, Designio and Racing Green.

Work 
Kahn, who has been described as "The King of Car Customisation" by the automotive magazine, Autocar, pulled out of architecture to pursue his love for cars.

In 1996, Kahn designed the RS-R alloy wheel. The design, in which the spokes gave the appearance of continuing all the way to the rim was considered a first in the industry. Using capital derived from the initial sold-out production run of 1,000 RS-R wheels, Kahn founded A. Kahn Design in Bradford, West Yorkshire in the late 1990s.
Kahn continued in the role of creative director, releasing further wheel designs, and adding exterior styling and vehicle interior design to the company's product range. He also sought partnerships with other fashion brands to collaborate on the interior designs, such as Harris Tweed.

By 2002, Kahn Design had diversified into production of complete vehicle upgrades, necessitating a move to new, purpose-built premises in 2004, which incorporated body shop and leatherworking facilities. Kahn bought some Land Rovers and once the cars were in his studio he re-styled and re-engineered them.

In 2008, Kahn purchased the "F1" registration plate for £440,000 which set a UK record for the most expensive plate sold at auction.

Television and Film 
Kahn appeared in the first season (10 episodes) of the television series Supercar Megabuild, featured on the National Geographic Channel. Kahn has also been featured on the BBC's The One Show. He was interviewed by the entrepreneur, Theo Paphitis. An enthusiastic film fan, Kahn has provided vehicles for a number of films including Edge of Tomorrow starring Tom Cruise and the 2017 thriller Extremis, while also working alongside Imax and Universal to promote the release of record-breaking blockbuster Fast and Furious 8.

Honours 
In December 2014, Kahn was presented with a lifetime achievement award at the Car Dealer Magazine awards. The judging panel paid tribute to his achievements, acknowledging that for more than 20 years, he has been setting the trends in automotive fashion.

In June 2015, Kahn was honoured with a design and innovation award at the Birmingham Made Me Awards. The judging panel recognised the significant investment made in both design and manufacturing as part of the WB12 Vengeance project.

 Young Entrepreneur of the Year – Business Link (1999)
 Global Trader of the Year – ABDN (2004)
 Businessman of the Year – HSBC Business Awards (2007)
 Lifetime Achievement Award – Car Magazine (2014)
 Award for Design & Innovation – BMM Innovation and Design Awards (2015)

References

External links 
 Kahn Design official website
 Chelsea Truck Company official website
 WB12 Vengeance official website 
 Project Kahn official website
 

British automobile designers
Living people
Engineers from Bradford
1964 births
Diamond Hero. The Diamond Hero is an Austrian helicopter unmanned aerial vehicle under development by Diamond Aircraft Industries and introduced at the Aero show held in Friedrichshafen in April 2012. The aircraft builds on Diamond's experience building airborne sensor systems based on the Diamond DA42.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed to be an autonomous UAV that incorporates artificial intelligence and will be able to exercise its own flight judgment. For instance, in the event of an engine failure, the aircraft will be able to examine the terrain below it and pick the best location for an autorotational landing. Diamond Aircraft CEO Christian Dries said of the aircraft on 19 April 2012, "it's a little bit beyond a regular unmanned aircraft."

The aircraft is powered by two Austro Engine AE55 rotary engines and will be able to lift a  sensor payload for 6.5 hours of flight endurance or four hours of hover endurance. It also has a recovery parachute.

Specifications (Hero)

References

External links

Interview with Diamond Aircraft CEO Christian Dries about the Hero project

Unmanned aerial vehicles of Austria
Wankel-engined helicopters
Diamond aircraft
Unmanned helicopters
Proposed aircraft of Austria
Aircraft first flown in 2012
DAR Solo. The DAR Solo is a Bulgarian ultralight aircraft, designed by Tony Ilieff and produced by Aeroplanes DAR, first flying in August 2008.

The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction or as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the US FAR Part 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules as well as the German 120 kg class (called the Solo 120) and deregulated 115 kg class in the United Kingdom. It features a strut-braced high wing, a single-seat open cockpit, tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is built with a composite fuselage and an aluminum wing. Its  span wing has flaperons and employs a single strut on each side supported by an optional jury strut. The standard engines used when the type was introduced were the  Hirth F33 and the  Hirth F23 two-stroke powerplants.

The design offers combinations of three types of wings, three types of engines and four types of wheels.

Specifications (Solo)

References

External links

Official video

Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
2000s Bulgarian ultralight aircraft
Solo
High-wing aircraft
Packard XJ49. The Packard XJ49 was the first U.S. designed turbofan aircraft engine, and was developed by the Packard Motor Co. in the 1940s.

Design and development

In 1943, Packard leased a government-owned manufacturing plant located on the outskirts of Toledo, Ohio. The plant was previously operated by the defunct Aviation Corporation. Packard used the leased plant to manufacture parts for the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, and referred to it as its Toledo Division.  In the early-summer of 1944, the Army Air Force Materiel Command contracted with Packard to carry out "advanced aircraft engine development" on both the Merlin and gas-turbine engines. To oversee the new project, Packard hired Allison Engine Company's Robert M. Williams as their chief design engineer at the Toledo facility in July of that year. In October 1946 Williams and Dr. George F. Wislicenus, one of the engineers working under him, discussed ways of improving the efficiency of turbojet engines. They came up with an engine design which they called a "ducted fan". The resulting engine was Packard's model PT-205, with the military designation Packard XJ49-V-1 turbofan engine.

The XJ49 design was truly a break from conventional design practices of the time.  Most turbojet engines then used one centrifugal compressor, one turbine wheel and multiple combustion chambers that resembled long cylinders arranged in a conical pattern.  The XJ49 design had a two-stage compressor made up of an axial-flow supersonic compressor at the engine intake, driven by the second power turbine wheel, followed by a spirally-shaped mixed flow compressor, driven by the first turbine wheel, giving an overall compression ratio of 6:1.
 
Power from the annular combustion chamber exhaust drives the complex two-stage turbine. The discharge flow from the first turbine stage drives an independent second-stage turbine. The blades of the last stage of the second turbine are extended beyond the engine core to form a supersonic fan that provides air flow around the engine core for additional thrust and further combustion. Supplementary burning (reheat or afterburning) between the two turbines and in the tailpipe can also be used for additional thrust.

The period between drawing up the basic design theory and having a complete engine ready to make its first run on a test stand was unusually short, as Packard started testing the first (and only) XJ49 in November 1948. When the testing was complete, the XJ49 proved itself to be the most powerful jet engine in operation at the time.

Survivors
On September 16, 1959, the United States Air Force released the XJ49 engine to the National Air Museum (now the National Air and Space Museum), and is now in storage at their Silver Hill, Maryland facility.

Specifications (XJ49-V-1)

See also

Notes

References
Neal Robert J., Master Motor Builders, Aero-Marine History Publishing Co. (2000) 
NASM Holdings, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC

External links
Packard Aircraft Engines 
Packard engine specifications
Images of Packard engines including the XJ41 
Production statistics for all Packard engines 

1940s turbojet engines
Turbofan engines
XJ-49
DAR 21 Vector II. The DAR 21 Vector II is a Bulgarian ultralight aircraft, designed and produced by Aeroplanes DAR, first flying on 1 August 2000.

When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction or as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

The aircraft was introduced in 2001 and production apparently ended in 2014, as by that year the aircraft was no longer advertised for sale by the company.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight rules. It features a strut-braced high wing, a two-seats-in-tandem enclosed cockpit, conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The Vector II has riveted stressed skin made with 1050 and 3105 aluminum sheet for corrosion resistance. The fuselage has a square cross-section. Its  span wing employs flaps that can be set to 15° for takeoff and 30° for landing. The standard engine available is the  Rotax 582 twin-cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke powerplant, with the four-stroke  Rotax 912 optional. Solo flight is accomplished from the front seat.

Variants
DAR 21
Standard version with bungee main landing gear suspension.
DAR 21S
Upgraded version with aluminum sprung main landing gear suspension for increased ground clearance.

Specifications (DAR 21)

References

External links
DAR 21 aircraft web page archives on Archive.org
Official video

2000s Bulgarian ultralight aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
High-wing aircraft
DAR aircraft
Warwick W-3 Bantam. The W-3 Bantam is a simple single place, homebuilt aircraft design from Bill Warwick of Torrance, California.

Design
The W-3 is a single place tricycle gear,  low wing aircraft with an open cockpit or bubble canopy. Construction is all metal with a welded-steel-tube forward fuselage with attachment points for the wing spars and engine mount. The fuselage uses non-compound curves and features a square vertical stabilizer

Operational history
The prototype was featured on the cover of the May 1972 issue of Popular Mechanics.

Specifications (W-3 Bantam)

References

Homebuilt aircraft