omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
192 Squadron (Israel). The 192 Squadron of the Israeli Air Force (IAF), also known as the Daya (Milvus) Squadron, was formed in July 1978 with several E-2 Hawkeye Airborne Early Warning aircraft.  The squadron served in a reconnaissance role during the 1982 Lebanon War and in other operations since. 

The squadron was reportedly disbanded in 1994, although a flying E-2C appeared in a flight school air show in 1998. The IAF was the first operator to install in-flight refuelling equipment and also applied several avionics enhancements to Israeli E-2Cs. Three of the four Israeli Hawkeyes were sold to Mexico in 2002 after an upgrade package installation, while one was handed over to the Israeli Air Force Museum. The "Roll Out" Ceremony of the first E-2C Hawkeye Aircraft for the Mexican Navy took place on January 21, 2004, at the facilities of Israel Aerospace Industries's Bedek Aviation Group.

See also

 122 Squadron (Israel) – operator of Gulfstream G500 (G550 "Nahshon-Eitam") Airborne Early Warning/Conformal Airborne Early Warning variant

References

Israeli Air Force squadrons
SS Messenger. SS Messenger may refer to one of two Type C2-S-B1 ships built for the United States Maritime Commission:

  (MC hull number 290), built by Moore Dry Dock in Oakland, California; later became USS Sheridan (AP-96/APA-51); scrapped in 1969 after explosion
  (MC hull number 2817), built by Consolidated Steel in Wilmington, California; scrapped in 1969

Ship names
Carl Hudecek. Carl J. Hudecek (born December 3, 1934) is an American, internationally known expert on sealing glasses, metal expansion and contraction, and metal oxidation processes for glass sealing. Hudecek holds or co-holds many U.S. and international patents in sealing glasses, television picture tube materials and processing, and sealing alloys.

Hudecek was born in Toledo, Ohio. He is from Perrysburg, Ohio and graduated from the University of Toledo.

Most of his working career was spent at Owens-Illinois Glass Company in Toledo, where he was chief physicist and laboratory manager. Hudecek was one of the U.S. pioneers in designing and installing turnkey manufacturing operations for sealing glasses in Russia and Germany. Through his consulting company, Perrysburg, Ohio-based Bridgecon Services, Hudecek consults in the area of sealing glasses. He has also taught courses on sealing and joining at Rutgers University and Missouri School of Mines.

In addition, Hudecek is an expert at the game of contract bridge. He won the national American Contract Bridge League Life Master Open Pairs championship in 1966, partnered by Ray Zoller. Hudecek has been a long-term member of the panel of experts for The Bridge World magazine and has written many bridge articles and commentaries.. He holds the title of Sapphire Life Master with the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL).

Bridge accomplishments

Wins

 North American Bridge Championships (1)
 Nail Life Master Open Pairs (1) 1966 
 More than 50 ACBL regional events

References

1934 births
Living people
American contract bridge players
Glass engineering and science
People from Toledo, Ohio
University of Toledo alumni
People from Perrysburg, Ohio
Engineers from Ohio
Handley Page Type S. The Handley Page Type S, or HPS-1 was a prototype British carrier-based fighter developed for the United States Navy in the early 1920s. A low-wing monoplane, it was unsuccessful, only two being built and flown.

Development and design
In 1921 the United States Navy drew up a specification for a single-seat fighter aircraft capable of operating either as a landplane from its aircraft carriers or from the water as a seaplane, seeking designs from both American and European companies.  The British aircraft manufacturer Handley Page, which had recently developed the leading edge slot, realised use of slots and flaps could allow a high-speed monoplane to fly at the low speeds needed for carrier operations with a much higher wing loading than a normal biplane, and decided to develop an aircraft to meet this requirement. The resulting design, given the Handley Page designation Type S (and later retrospectively known as the H.P.21) was a small, low-wing cantilever monoplane, with full-span leading edge slots and full-span slotted flaps. The airframe was a plywood monocoque, with the fuselage capable of being broken into two sections for storage on board ship. It had a tailwheel undercarriage that could be replaced by two floats. Although designed to use engines of up to 400 hp (298 kW), the prototypes were fitted with a much less powerful surplus Bentley BR2 rotary engine.

The US Navy placed an order for three prototypes, designated HPS-1 (Handley Page Scout) in the contemporary US Navy designation system. The first prototype flew on 7 September 1923, but proved to have poor handling, with the rudder proving to be ineffective. The second prototype was built with its wings fitted with six degrees of dihedral, flying in February 1924. It had much improved handling, and showed good speed at low level.  However, when undergoing full load trials for the US Navy at Martlesham Heath, it was wrecked when its undercarriage collapsed on landing, and the US Navy cancelled the contract, with the third prototype, intended to be a floatplane, not completed.

Operators

United States Navy

Specifications (Type S)

See also

Notes

References

1920s British fighter aircraft
Type S
Rotary-engined aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Lewis Karrick. Lewis Cass Karrick (1890–1962) was an American petroleum refinery engineer, oil shale and coal technologist, and inventor. He patented several coal and oil shale related inventions, and he also refined and perfected a low-temperature carbonization and pyrolysis process for processing coal and other carbonaceous materials, known as the Karrick process.

Lewis Carrick worked as a consulting engineer for the United States synthetic fuels studies in Utah and Ohio.  In 1920s, he improved the low-temperature carbonization and pyrolysis process for processing coal and other carbonaceous materials, which is known as Karrick process. He was also actively involved in the early development of the NTU oil shale retort.

In 1930–1938, he worked as a supervisor of the coal products research at the University of Utah. In 1943, Karrick was employed by the United States Geological Survey to work on Alaska and Rockey Mountain Coal Survey. In 1950, he was transferred to the United States Bureau of Mines's Pittsburgh station.

Patents issued to Lewis Karrick

References

American chemical engineers
1890 births
1962 deaths
20th-century American engineers
20th-century American inventors
Oil shale technology inventors
20th-century American chemists
Borovkov-Florov D. The Borovkov-Florov D  was an experimental fighter aircraft designed in the USSR from 1940.

Development 
The 'D' was designed as a mixed power fighter with a piston engine and Merkulin ramjet booster operating in the same duct. A  Shvetsov M-71 engine was intended to be the main powerplant but it is unclear how the thermodynamic cycles of the two engines were to be linked. Similar aircraft were built later in the German-Soviet War using the main engine to drive a propeller and a compressor to supply air to a ramjet/afterburner booster, both the Su-5 and MiG-13 were produced in limited numbers but the performance gains were limited and soon eclipsed by turbo-jet engines.
The 'D' was  to have been a gull-winged monoplane with high set wing, of stressed skin construction with exceptionally smooth skin stabilised by underlying corrugated structure. A heavy armament of two  Nudelman-Suranov NS-37 cannon and two  ShVAK cannon  was included, but all work was abandoned with the German invasion of 1941.

Specifications

See also

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References

 Gunston, Bill. “The Osprey Encyclopaedia of Russian Aircraft 1875 – 1995”. London, Osprey. 1995. 
 Taylor, Michael J.H. . “ Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. Studio Editions. London. 1989.  

1940s Soviet fighter aircraft
RAF Tatenhill. Royal Air Force Tatenhill or more simply RAF Tatenhill is a former Royal Air Force satellite station in Tatenhill, Staffordshire, England,  west of Burton on Trent. It was originally known as RAF Crossplains.

History
The field was built in 1941 as a satellite for No. 27 Operational Training Unit RAF (OTU) at RAF Lichfield later becoming a satellite airfield for RAF Wheaton Aston. The design was the wartime RAF standard of three co-intersecting runways, east-west, north-south diagonal. The east-west runway was the only one suitable to safely accommodate bomber take off and landings () which hampered its operability.

It was used as a bomber crew training field, which continued in varied training functions until 1944 with Vickers Wellington, Airspeed Oxford and Avro Anson aircraft for RAF Bomber Command. Later a single engine training unit arrived using the Miles Master aircraft. It was then used by the RAF School of Explosives after the disastrous explosion at nearby RAF Fauld, from October 1945 until January 1947. During the post Second World War period when it was still under RAF Control, RAF Tatenhill was used to break up unused and unwanted ammunition before it was dumped at sea.

The airfield had a bomb dump on the south-east side and a number of frying pan dispersals were built on land to the north of the B5234 road, with hangars in this area too.

Current use
The airfield remains in use as Tatenhill Airfield. A wartime Bellman hangar remains in use as of 2013.

References

Royal Air Force stations in Staffordshire
Royal Air Force stations of World War II in the United Kingdom
Questair Venture. The Questair Venture is a homebuilt aircraft manufactured by Questair at John Bell Williams Airport in Bolton, Mississippi, United States. The aircraft first flew on 1 July 1987.

Development
Questair, Inc. was founded by Ed MacDonough and Jim Griswold in the mid 1980s. The Venture was designed by Griswold, a former chief engineer with Piper Aircraft, and used technology from the Piper Malibu, which Griswold led the design for as well. The layout of the design was intended to combine a large two-seat side-by-side cabin with rear baggage space in the smallest possible airframe, having a highly streamlined design.

The aircraft is of all-metal construction using pre-formed multi-curvature panels and is supplied as a kit to homebuilders.  The Venture has a complex tricycle retractable undercarriage, but the Spirit version has a fixed spatted wheel fairings on the main landing gear, the nose landing gear remaining retractable.  The engine is a Continental IO-550-G, designed specifically for the aircraft.

Operational history
The first Venture made its maiden flight on 1 July 1987, and in 1991 it was followed by the Questair Spirit which had an optional third rear seat as well as fixed tricycle undercarriage.  Both types have been built from kits by amateur constructors and over 30 had been completed by 2001. In 1991, a Questair Venture set a time-to-climb record for its class of two minutes, thirty-one seconds to reach 3000 meters. The record stood until broken in 1999 by the custom-built Bohannon B-1.

In June 1989 the Venture set three FAI speed records for piston aircraft weighing less than 1000 kg:
 331 miles/hour average for four 3-km runs at low altitude (beat by the Nemesis NXT in 2008)
 305 mph for a 100-km circuit
 284 mph for a 1000-km circuit

The 100-km and 1000-km records still stand in 2023.

Aircraft on display
EAA AirVenture Museum, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, second prototype Venture

Specifications (Venture)

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

External links
 

1980s United States civil utility aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1987
Mrinal Thakur. Mrinal Thakur is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Auburn University in Alabama, USA. He holds a series of patents on electrically conductive polymers. Thakur claims that the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry to Alan J. Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa was awarded for a scientific result he disproved in 1988: that only conjugated polymers could conduct electricity.

Awards 

Thakur was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Case Western Reserve University and a BS in Physics from Visva-Bharati University.

Publications of Mrinal Thakur 

Patents of Mrinal Thakur

References 

Indian emigrants to the United States
Case Western Reserve University alumni
Auburn University faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
SS Flying Cloud. SS Flying Cloud may refer to one of two Type C2 ships built for the United States Maritime Commission:

  (MC hull number 17), a Type C2 diesel-powered ship built by Federal Shipbuilding; served as United States Navy cargo ship USS Jupiter (AK-43) during World War II; scrapped in 1971
  (MC hull number 1197), a Type C2-S-B1 steam-powered ship built by Moore Dry Dock; scrapped 1972

Ship names
Robostrider. Robostrider is a self-propelled robot which uses similar mechanisms to real water striders in order to glide along the surface of the water.  It was developed at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Robostrider does not break the surface layer of the water despite leg speeds of  it generates both capillary waves and vortices while in motion, as do Gerridae.  Hu and Bush state that Robostrider moves "in a style less elegant than its natural counterpart"  but point out that it can cover  in five strides, with one winding.

See also
Animal locomotion on the surface layer of water.

References

External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20090907091706/http://web.mit.edu/chosetec/www/robo/robostrider.html

2003 robots
Biorobotics
Robots of the United States
Water walking robots
Teleprocessing monitor. A teleprocessing monitor (also, Transaction Processing Monitor or TP Monitor) is a control program that monitors the transfer of data between multiple local and remote terminals to ensure that the transaction processes completely or, if an error occurs, to take appropriate actions.

The term is frequently used in mainframe-based wide area networks, where TP monitors manage the transfer of data between several clients making requests to a server. TP monitors will control and manage the data smoothly to available servers by detecting hardware failures and switching to another node.

Teleprocessing monitors were originally developed to allow several clients to connect to one server. However, they developed to what are now known as transaction processing monitors (TPMs). A TPM breaks down applications or code into transactions and ensures that all databases are updated in a single transaction. This is useful for airline reservations, car rentals, hotel accommodations, ATM transactions or other high volume transaction locations. TP monitors ensure that transactions are not lost or destroyed. Sometimes they are referred to as middleware, because the client sends the data for query or processing to the server database and then it is sent back to the user terminal. This can be accomplished remotely and by multiple users simultaneously. TP monitors are easily scalable allowing for increase in users and data processed.

Examples include the CICS (Customer Information Control System) for IBM mainframes introduced in July 1969, which can process thousands of transactions per second; IBM Information Management System (IMS, more specifically its IMS TM, also known as IMS DC, component); ACMS (Application Control Management System) for OpenVMS; UNIVAC TIP; Transarc Encina and Oracle Tuxedo are major TP monitors in the Unix client/server environment.

See also 
 Transaction processing system
 Transaction processing

References

External links 
 Puntti, Tanya. (2007). “Database Application Development”.  TP Monitors in large database systems. 

Transaction processing
Wide area networks
Jamari River. The Jamari River is a river of Rondônia state in western Brazil.

Part of the river's watershed is covered by the  Jacundá National Forest, a sustainable use conservation unit.
The Jamari river is dammed by the Samuel Hydroelectric Dam near Porto Velho, which forms a reservoir that covers . The Samuel Ecological Station was established in compensation for the environmental impact. The ecological station extends to the east of the dam and protects part of the Jamari river basin.

See also
List of rivers of Rondônia

References
Brazilian Ministry of Transport

Rivers of Rondônia
Donald Victor Darwin. Donald Victor Darwin (11 October 1896 – 8 March 1972), M.M., M.C.E., M.I.C.E., M.I.E. (Aust.), CE., F.A.P.I., was an Australian civil engineer.

Personal life 
He was born at Redhill, South Australia to Henry Darwin, a native-born bank manager, and his wife Jessie Louise Cleta, née Gmeiner. Darwin was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide and the University of Melbourne, receiving his BCE in 1920, and subsequently the MCE. Service in the Australian military during World War I interrupted his university studies; he served with the 10th Field Company Engineers, AIF, in France and Belgium from 1916 as a sapper. In 1918 he was awarded the Military Medal. He was discharged in 1919.

Career 
Darwin's professional career was entirely with the Victorian Country Roads Board (CRB), which he joined in 1920 as Assistant Engineer, becoming Bridge Engineer in 1924, responsible for the design and construction of highway bridges throughout Victoria. One of his major projects was to design the new bridge over the Barwon River on the Princes Highway in Geelong.

In 1929 Darwin was promoted to Assistant Chief Engineer under founding chairman William Calder. He became Assistant Chief Engineer in 1928, Chief Engineer in 1941, and was appointed to the three-member board of the C.R.B. in 1940, becoming chairman in 1949 on the retirement of Chairman W L Dale. During World War II, the CRB engineers were engaged on road, airfield and other civil engineering defence works in Victoria and Northern Territory.

In addition to his other duties, during the 1940s Darwin was a part-time Lecturer in Roads and Street at the University of Melbourne. He became a Councillor of the Institution of Engineers Australia Victoria Division (IEAust) from 1949, and President in 1957. He was appointed to the Tourist Development Authority in 1958, from which he retired in June 1962, although he continued to assist the Australian Road Research Board. He died 8 March 1972 at Malvern.

References

Bibliography
Chambers, Don, 'Darwin, Donald Victor (1896–1972)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 13, Melbourne University Press, 1993, pp. 572–573
Chambers, Don, From Bullock Tracks to Bitumen (manuscript, State Library of Victoria)
Darwin, D. V 1956, The planning of roads systems throughout Australia: statement, Country Roads Board, Victoria
Darwin, D. V. 1926. 'The Barwon River bridge, Geelong' Thesis (M.C.E. -- University of Melbourne, Dept. of Engineering, 1926
Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne), 5 Jan 1945, 2 Sept 1950, 11 Sept 1953
Argus (Melbourne), 22 Mar 1949
Herald (Melbourne), 10 July 1950, 1 Feb 1956
Age (Melbourne), 17 Apr 1957, 24 July 1962, 10 Mar 1972
Sydney Morning Herald, 8 June 1963, 25 Nov 1966

Australian civil engineers
University of Melbourne alumni
1896 births
1972 deaths
Ben Skora. Benjamin J. Skora was an American inventor residing in Palos Hills, Illinois, who specialized in robotics and home automation.  He often worked with spare parts obtained from junk yards or discarded by others.  He was best known for building Arok, a humanoid robot which was highly advanced for its time in the late 1970s.  Arok was able to move in any direction at up to 3 mph, lift 125 pounds and bend 45 degrees at the waist. It was able to perform routine household tasks such as serving drinks, taking out the trash and walking the dog.

His home included many of his creations including a drivable motorized easy chair, an automatic retractable soap dispenser, dressers that slide away to reveal a hallway to another room, and a ski slope from the roof.

He appeared in the magazines People and Cosmopolitan, on the TV shows Real People and Ripley's Believe It or Not! and the Chris Smith film Home Movie (2001).

His home in Palos Hills was torn down on November 28, 2014.

On October 9, 2015, his cousin Tom Skora donated Arok (the name comes from Skora's last named spelled backward minus the S) to Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills.

Health

In 2013 Skora, who had Alzheimer's disease, was moved into an assisted-care center in Hickory Hills, Illinois, by his family. His cousin Tom Skora had Ben's power of attorney. Skora died in October 2018.

References

American inventors
2018 deaths
People from Palos Hills, Illinois
1937 births
LNER internal combustion locomotives. The London and North Eastern Railway used a few petrol and diesel locomotives.  These included the LNER Class Y11 petrol locomotives, the diesel shunters which later became British Rail Class D3/9 and British Rail Class D3/14 and the Kitson-Still steam diesel hybrid locomotive. During the 1930s, Armstrong Whitworth supplied an experimental 1-Co-1 diesel-electric locomotive and several diesel-electric railcars. In the 1940s, the LNER had twenty-five 1,600 hp main-line diesel locomotives on order. These would have been similar to the British Rail Class D16/1 and British Rail Class D16/2 but the order was cancelled after nationalisation in 1948.

Petrol railcars
The LNER inherited several petrol railcars from its constituent companies:
 NER petrol inspection car
 NER petrol-electric autocars (these were similar in body style to the Tyneside Electrics)
 NER petrol rail motor bus
 NER petrol autocar
 GCR petrol-electric railcar

See also
 GWR diesel shunters
 LMS diesel shunters
 List of British Rail classes
 Southern Railway diesels

References

External links
 Armstrong Whitworth locomotives and railcars

Internal combustion locomotives
Diesel locomotives of Great Britain
ESME-Sudria. The École Spéciale de Mécanique et d'Electricité (English: Special School of Mechanics and Electricity), also known as ESME Sudria is a French private grande école founded in 1905. It is a part of the IONIS Education Group.

Founded in 1905 by Joachim Sudria and certified by the State since 1922, the diploma is signed by the French Education Ministry and authorized by the "Commission des titres d'ingénieur". The ESME-Sudria is also member of the "Conférence des Grandes Écoles" and of the Union of Independent Grandes Écoles.

The school graduates students at different levels:
 Bachelor of Science
 Master of Engineering certified by the Order of Engineers  
 PhD (cooperation with University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée or University of Paris-Saclay)

Since 2006, the school has been part of the IONIS Institute of Technology from IONIS Education Group.

Alumni 
 Marie-Louise Paris (1921), founder of the EPF in 1925

ESME Sudria Foundation
Founded in 2011 by Alstom, Engie Ineo, Eiffage, Technip et the association of ESME Sudria Engineers, with funds from the Fondation de France, ESME Sudria stands out among French engineering schools in that it strives to favour social diversity among its student body. The school notably offers study grants to students from financially disadvantaged backgrounds. Notable recipients have included France's 2015 Youth Cultural Ambassador, Antonin Houssière, and 2020 Olympic archer Alexandre Marie.

References

External links 
ESME-Sudria website

Engineering universities and colleges in France
Grandes écoles
Universities and colleges in Lille
Universities and colleges in Lyon
Universities and colleges in Paris
Universities and colleges in Bordeaux
Universities and colleges established in 1905
1905 establishments in France