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Parascender II. The Parascender II is an American powered parachute that was designed and produced by Parascender Technologies of Kissimmee, Florida. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development
The Parascender II was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles trainer exemption and also the US Experimental - Amateur-built aircraft rules. It features a  parachute-style wing, two-seats-in-tandem accommodation, tricycle landing gear and a single  Rotax 503 engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft carriage is built from bolted aluminium tubing, with a unique octagonal dual-tube propeller guard. In flight steering is accomplished via foot pedals that actuate the canopy brakes, creating roll and yaw. On the ground the aircraft has lever-controlled nosewheel steering. The main landing gear incorporates spring rod suspension and was changed to composite suspension in 1993. The aircraft has a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload for the pilot, passengers and baggage is .

The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off with a  engine is  and the landing roll is .

The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 20 hours.

Operational history
In April 2015 six examples were registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration, although a total of eight had been registered at one time.

Specifications (Parascender II)

References

External links
Photo of a Parascender II in flight

Parascender II
1990s United States sport aircraft
1990s United States ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Powered parachutes
Gandhi Institute of Advanced Computer & Research, Rayagada. Gandhi Institute of Advanced Computer & Research, Rayagada (GIACR), formerly IACR, is an engineering college located in Rayagada, in the state of Odisha, India. It was established in 1999 by Rabindranath Educational Trust, Rayagada with the approval of AICTE, New Delhi and Government of Odisha and affiliated to Biju Patnaik University of Technology. GIACR is certified with ISO 9001:2008 by Bureau Veritas for the Quality Management System.

Academics
Initially (postgraduate) M.C.A. course was introduced and MBA was introduced in 2006. Since 2004, GIACR offers 06 undergraduate B.Tech courses in CSE, IT, ECE, EEE, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Admission is through the Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE). It also offers Diploma courses in Civil Engineering & Mechanical Engineering.

Facilities
GIACR facilities include a beautiful garden, Central Library, Air Conditioned Computer Laboratories, Computer Center, Training, Development & Placement Divn., Mechanical Workshops, Civil Workshops, Electrical Laboratories, Electronics Laboratories, Canteen & Students Common Room.

References

External links
Official website of the Gandhi Institute of Advanced Computer & Research

Engineering colleges in Odisha
Colleges affiliated with Biju Patnaik University of Technology
All India Council for Technical Education
Education in Rayagada district
Educational institutions established in 1999
1999 establishments in Orissa
List of structural engineering software. This is list of notable software packages that implement engineering analysis of structure against applied loads using structural engineering and structural engineering theory.

See also
 List of computer-aided engineering software
 List of BIM software

References

 Structure Magazine, Software Guide, August 2014
 Autodesk Completes Acquisition of Robobat, 1/15/2008
 Industry Canada, 2014-03-19

Structural engineering
Civil engineering
Lists of software
Paratrek Angel 2-B. The Paratrek Angel 2-B is an American powered parachute that was designed and produced by Paratrek of Auburn, California. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles trainer exemption as well as the US  Experimental - Amateur-built aircraft rules. It features a  parachute-style wing, two-seats-in-tandem or side-by-side configuration, tricycle landing gear and a single  Rotax 503 engine in pusher configuration. The  Hirth 2706 engine was a factory option.

The aircraft carriage is built from a combination of bolted aluminium and 4130 steel tubing. In flight steering is accomplished via foot pedals that actuate the canopy brakes, creating roll and yaw. On the ground the aircraft has lever-controlled nosewheel steering. The main landing gear incorporates sprung steel rod suspension. The aircraft has a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload for the pilot, passenger and baggage is .

The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off with a  engine is  and the landing roll is .

The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied assembly kit as 20 hours.

Operational history
By 1998 the company reported that six kits had been sold and two aircraft were completed and flying.

In April 2015 one example was registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration.

Specifications (Angel 2-B)

References

Angel
1990s United States sport aircraft
1990s United States ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Powered parachutes
Paratrek. Paratrek was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Auburn, California. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of powered parachutes in the form of kits for amateur construction.

In the 1990s, the company produced the Angel line of powered parachutes, including the Angel 1, Angel 2-B, Angel 3 and Angel 4, with all carriages built from a combination of bolted aluminium and 4130 steel tubing.

Aircraft

References

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Powered parachutes
Constantin C. Teodorescu. Constantin C. Teodorescu (March 22, 1892–1972) was a Romanian engineer.

Born in Bucharest to a low-ranking employee of the Education Ministry, he attended primary school in his native city. Subsequently, he went to Iași on a scholarship, first going to the Costache Negruzzi High School, followed by the National High School. He graduated from the latter institution's science department in 1911, then winning a place at the National School for Bridges and Roads. There, his professors included Anghel Saligny, Elie Radu, Ion Ionescu-Bizeț, David Emmanuel, and Nicolae Vasilescu-Karpen. After obtaining a degree as a bridge and road engineer in 1916, he was named an engineer in the munitions directorate, subsequently passing to the Public Works Ministry's bridges and roads directorate. He worked there in 1920, when he was named teaching assistant at his alma mater's strength of materials department.

In the autumn of 1920, Traian Lalescu invited him to become assistant director of the new Timișoara Polytechnic School, and he held this position until 1924. Meanwhile, he was substitute professor of rational mechanics (1920–1921) and strength of materials (1921–1923). In 1923, he was named acting professor of materials resistance, becoming permanent professor in 1926 and remaining as such until 1939. While at Timișoara, he served as rector from 1934 to 1939. Subsequently, he transferred to what had become the Polytechnic School of Bucharest. There, he was rector from January 1941, in the aftermath of the Legionnaires' rebellion, until October 1944, after the coup against the country's pro-Axis dictator. He was also professor of materials strength from 1940 to 1948. Following the education reform imposed by the new Communist regime, he was assigned to teach at the Bucharest railway institute until this was absorbed by the Polytechnic. He retired in 1959 and was granted the title of professor emeritus in 1962.

Notes

References
 Horia Colan, "Dezvoltarea științelor tehnice după Marea Unire (1918-1940)", in NOEMA, II/2003, p. 101-116
 Ioan Goia, "Constantin C. Teodorescu (1892-1972)", in Știință și inginerie, 12/2013, p. 65-70

1892 births
1972 deaths
Engineers from Bucharest
Politehnica University of Bucharest alumni
Academic staff of the Politehnica University of Bucharest
Academic staff of the Politehnica University of Timișoara
Rectors of Politehnica University of Timișoara
Rectors of Politehnica University of Bucharest
20th-century Romanian engineers
Costache Negruzzi National College alumni
Tim Cannon. Tim Cannon is an American software developer, entrepreneur, and biohacker based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is best known as Chief Information Officer of Grindhouse Wetware, a biotechnology startup company that creates technology to augment human capabilities.  Grindhouse was co-founded by Cannon and Shawn Sarver in 2012. Cannon himself has had a variety of body modification implants, and has been referred to in the media as a cyborg.

Cannon has spoken at conferences around the world on the topics of human enhancement, futurism, and citizen science, including at TEDx Rosslyn, FITUR, the University of Maryland, the World Business Dialogue, the Medical Entrepreneur Startup Hospital, and others. He has been published in Wired and featured in television shows such as National Geographic Channel's The Big Picture with Kal Penn. Cannon has been featured on podcasts including Ryan O'Shea's Future Grind  and Roderick Russell's Remarkably Human.

Implants
Cannon has had a variety of body modification implants, including a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag in his hand and magnetic implants in a finger, wrist, and tragus, causing him to be labelled a cyborg by media outlets including Business Insider, Newsweek, The Awl, and others. Because of legal and ethical restrictions on the types of surgery that can be done on humans, most of these modifications cannot be done by doctors or anesthetists.  Instead they are done by body modification experts or on a "DIY" basis.

In May 2012, inspired by Lepht Anonym, Cannon had finger magnets implanted to give him an "extra sense", the ability to feel electromagnetism.

In October 2013, Cannon became the first person to be implanted with the Grindhouse-designed biometric sensor known as Circadia, a procedure which was performed by body modification artist Steve Haworth in Essen, Germany. The device, approximately the size of a deck of playing cards, automatically sent Cannon's temperature to his phone, was powered wirelessly through inductive charging, and mimicked bioluminescence with subdermal LEDs. After a few months as an initial proof-of-concept test, a series of panic attacks led to the device's removal. Cannon is currently working to design an improved, consumer-friendly version of his Circadia implant that measures additional biometrics such as blood glucose, blood oxygen, blood pressure, and heart rate data.

In November 2015, Tim had a prototype of Grindhouse's Northstar device implanted into his right forearm during a procedure at the “Cyborg Fair” in Düsseldorf, Germany. A little larger than a coin, Northstar contained five LED lights, creating a bioluminescent effect when touched with a magnet (such as the ones implanted in Cannon's fingertips.) 
Its purpose is solely aesthetic. Capable of blinking around 10,000 times before the battery runs down, the device has been presented as a way to "light" tattoos.

References

1979 births
Living people
American futurologists
Cyberneticists
Life extensionists
American transhumanists
People from Camden, Ohio
Cyborgs
Andrew V. Haeff. Andrew (Andrey) Vasily Haeff (12 January 1905 – 16 November 1990) was a Russian electrical engineer. Born in Moscow on 12 January 1905, Haeff's family fled to Harbin, China, when he was fifteen years old. He studied electrical and mechanical engineering at the Russian Polytechnic Institute in Harbin, graduating in 1928 and emigrating to the United States to study at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). At Caltech, Haeff was awarded his MSc in 1929 and his PhD in 1932, with a thesis on an ultra-high frequency oscillator he later used in his invention of the traveling-wave tube amplifier.

In 1934, Haeff left Caltech to work for RCA's research and development team, where he invented the inductive output tube in 1939. With the United States' entry into the Second World War in 1941, Haeff joined the United States Naval Research Laboratory as a consulting physicist, helping with the development of radar and inventing a pulse jammer. At the war's conclusion, he stayed on at the Naval Research Laboratory as head of the Vacuum Tube Research Section, inventing the electron-wave tube and the "memory tube" - a cathode ray tube capable of temporarily storing data, later eclipsed by the Williams tube but used in the Tektronix 4014 computer terminals. In 1950, Haeff was the first recipient of the IEEE's Harry Diamond Memorial Award "For his contribution to the study of the interaction of electrons and radiation, and for his contribution to the storage tube art".

Haeff joined the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1950 to lead the Electron Tube Laboratory, where he continued producing memory and travelling-wave tubes and invented the electron-stream amplifier tube and resistive-wall amplifier with Charles Birdsall. The Electron Tube Laboratory was merged with Hughes' other research teams in 1954, becoming the Hughes Research Laboratories, with Haeff as their director. He left in 1961, exhausted, and became an independent inventor and consultant, creating a plasma containment device, a volumetric measuring device, and predicting laser-based scanning. He formally retired in 1975, and died at home on 16 November 1990.

References

Bibliography 

1905 births
1990 deaths
California Institute of Technology alumni
American electrical engineers
White Russian emigrants to China
20th-century American inventors
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Celeste Baranski. Celeste Suzanne Baranski is an American electronic engineer, entrepreneur, and executive who helped create several pioneering electronic devices including early versions of the tablet computer. Baranski, with her colleague Alain Rossmann, won the Discover Award from Discover Magazine in 1993.

Education 
Baranski attended Stanford University from 1975 to 1980 and obtained Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering.

Career 

After engineering jobs at ROLM, GRiD Systems, and Tsunami Technologies, Baranski joined GO Corporation in 1987 as one of the founders, and served as Vice President of Engineering. In 1990, the hardware division of GO was divested as EO Inc. and she continued there from 1990 to 1994, producing the EO Personal Communicator, an early tablet computer. The device did not enjoy commercial success so after the collapse of Go/EO, she worked from 1994 to 2006 on mobile devices at Norand Corporation, Hewlett Packard,  Set Engineering, Handspring, and Palm.

After taking a sabbatical she founded Vitamin D Video, a machine vision company, in 2007 and served as its chief executive officer until 2010. The company licensed artificial intelligence algorithms from Numenta, a company founded by Jeff Hawkins whom she met at Handspring/Palm. It was acquired by Sighthound in 2013.

From 2010 to 2014 she was senior vice president, engineering, at Panasas, a data storage company.

In 2014 she joined Hawkins' machine intelligence company, Numenta, as Vice President of Engineering.

References 

Living people
1957 births
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
American electronics engineers
21st-century American businesswomen
21st-century American businesspeople
American computer businesspeople
Computer engineers
Sydney JetCats. The Sydney JetCats were a class of catamarans operated by the State Transit Authority and Sydney Ferries on the Manly service.

History
Three JetCats were delivered in 1990/91 to replace the remaining four Sydney hydrofoils on the Manly service. The 268-seat vessels were built by NQEA, Cairns to an Incat Crowther design.

In December 2008, the State Government announced the JetCat service would cease and called for tenders to operate the service on a commercial basis. The last JetCat service operated on 31 December 2008. JetCat patronage had dropped from 1,453,000 passengers per annum in 1995/96 to 393,506 between July and December 2008, while ferry patronage on the route rose from 3.7 million to 6.0 million (full 08/09 year) in the same period. However this referenced source clearly reveals the change in Jetcat patronage can be explained by the reduction in the number of timetabled Jetcat services being operated from typically 256 return trips per week in 1995/96, down to 116 per week in 2008 (both including ferry replacement trips). The JetCats were sold to a broker, who resold them for three times the price.

Manly Fast Ferry commenced operating the service on 10 February 2009.

Vessels 
 Ex-Manly JetCat "Sea Eagle" was destroyed by fire in 2019 at her berth, along with another vessel "Forward" - both vessels were "utility boats" serving offshore platforms. Arson is suspected.

References

Catamarans
Ferry classes
Ferry transport in Sydney
Ships built in Queensland
European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications. The European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications or ECSAT is a research centre belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA) and located on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

It was created in 2009 and moved to its present building in 2013. Staff work on activities linking space to telecommunications, integrated applications, climate change, technology and science. 

The development of ECSAT was in line with the growing efforts of the United Kingdom in the space sector, including the creation of the UK Space Agency  in 2010 and the increase in the economic contribution of that country to ESA. At the same time, ESA benefited from a closer relation with the UK space sector and corrected a historical anomaly whereby the United Kingdom, while being one of the biggest ESA contributors, did not host any of the agency's major centres.

There is an earlier ESA facility on the campus, the ESA Business Incubation Centre (BIC) Harwell, which is intended to assist in the development of technology transfer ideas, helping to transform them into viable businesses.

ECSAT hosts the ESA Climate Office, responsible for defining and implementing ESA's Climate Change Initiative Programme.

See also
 European Space Agency (ESA)
 ESA Centre for Earth Observation (ESRIN)
 European Astronaut Centre (EAC)
 European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)
 European Space Operations Centre (ESOC)
 European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC)
 European Space Tracking Network (ESTRACK)
 Guiana Space Centre (CSG)

References

External links

European Space Agency facilities
Research institutes in Oxfordshire
Space programme of the United Kingdom
Space technology research institutes
Vale of White Horse
Product data record. A product record (or product data record) is the data associated with the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal. It includes all the information used to develop, describe, manage and communicate information about products and critical linkage between relevant data elements. It is a key concept of product lifecycle management (PLM) and product data management (PDM), because it represents all the data that PLM processes and software manage and allow access to.

The product record is the single version of the truth for product data and implementing PLM is not possible without first designing the product record. However, PLM solutions often do not physically host all the product record data in their database but only create the logical connections so information can be accessed in its native application.

References

External links 

Oracle "Managing the Product Record for the Medical Device Industry" 

Product lifecycle management
Information technology management
CAD file formats
Intelligiant. Intelligiant is a water cannon invented by John Miscovich (1918 - August 22, 2014) in the post-WW2 years. His  Intelligiant influenced the development of fire-fighting and hydraulic gold mining, with numerous other applications. Today it is  known as a standard fire fighting cannon.

References 
 The Intelligiant: John Miskovich's rise from Alaskan gold miner to world renowned inventor mining-technology.com, accessed 2/21/2017
 

Water technology
Great Cannon. The Great Cannon of China is an Internet attack tool that is used by the government of the People's Republic of China to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks on websites by performing a man-in-the-middle attack on large amounts of web traffic and injecting code which causes the end-user's web browsers to  flood traffic to targeted websites. According to the researchers at the Citizen Lab, the International Computer Science Institute, and Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy, who coined the term, the Great Cannon hijacks foreign web traffic intended for Chinese websites and re-purposes them to flood targeted web servers with enormous amounts of traffic in an attempt to disrupt their operations. While it is co-located with the Great Firewall, the Great Cannon is "a separate offensive system, with different capabilities and design."

Besides launching denial-of-service attacks, the tool is also capable of monitoring web traffic and distributing malware in targeted attacks in ways that are similar to the Quantum Insert system used by the U.S. National Security Agency.

Mechanism

The Great Cannon hijacks insecure traffic inbound to servers within the Great Firewall, and injects JavaScript that redirects that traffic to the target. These attacks fail when websites have HTTPS encryption.

Known uses 

The first known targets of the Great Cannon (in late March 2015) were websites hosting censorship-evading tools, including GitHub, a web-based code hosting service, and GreatFire, a service monitoring blocked websites in China.

In 2017, the Great Cannon was used to attack the Mingjing News website.

, the Great Cannon was being used to attempt to take down the Hong Kong–based LIHKG online forum, even though the Basic Law of Hong Kong clearly states that Hong Kong's internet is the affairs of Hong Kong and Hong Kong only.

Reaction 
Quartz reported that the 2015 GitHub attack caused "severe" political problems for China, including the United States Department of State viewing it as "an attack against US infrastructure".

See also
 Internet censorship in China

References

Cyberwarfare by China
Denial-of-service attacks
Internet censorship in China
Political repression in China
Hacking (computer security)
Espionage
Botnets