omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Nortd Labs. Nortd Labs a.k.a. NOR_/D is an international research and development collaborative dedicated to the merging of open source art, architecture, software and system design. NORTD Labs is also a studio of creative thought that engages science, art and design.

Historically, NORTD Labs has developed open-source hardware such as CUBIT in 2007, which has been built and used by thousands of people, labs, hacker-spaces and universities worldwide. NORTD Labs work is released under various open licenses.

According to co-founder Addie Wagenknecht, NORTD Labs "wants to change how people create, build and consume objects. Living in a software/internet powered world we forget about how physical products are created. We want to allow makers to feel empowered and to lose the black box feel of closed systems."  NORTD labs commitment is to support open values and the public domain through the use of open licenses, support for open entrepreneurship and the admonishment of copyright and intellectual property patents in exchange for support of open licenses.

Although NORTD Labs work is typically highly technical in nature, they define themselves as artists, not engineers.

History
NORTD Labs was founded in 2006 by Addie Wagenknecht and Stefan Hechenberger during graduate school at New York University and established officially during a research fellowship at the New York-based Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in 2007-2008. Most of NORTD Labs researchers and collaborators are based in New York City as well as Europe. Their work is documented and published online at the NORTD Labs website.

NORTD Labs has recently held fellowships at Carnegie Mellon University STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and
CultureLab UK.

Founders 
Addie Wagenknecht: Co-Founder (United States)
Stefan Hechenberger: Co-Founder (Austria)

Select collaborators

Scott Snibbe, Laban Motion Player 
Free Art and Technology Lab, BrickiPhone 
OpenFrameworks, OpenCV library 
Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture dFAB, Optimization of Parenting

Notable projects

 Lasersaur, 2011
 Publicity, 2010
 Black Hawk Paint, 2009
 TouchKit, 2008
 ShadowProject, 2008
 CUBIT, 2006

References

External links
 NORTD labs
 Lasersaur
 Chittak

Computer art
Non-profit organizations based in New York (state)
International artist groups and collectives
Rabigh Wings Aviation Academy. Rabigh Wings Aviation Academy (RWAA) is the first aviation academy set up in Saudi Arabia.

History 
Aside from being the first aviation academy in the country, the academy is a modern flight training school. 

The CEO and founder, Turki bin Muqrin bin Abdul-Aziz, is a pilot, businessman, and a member of the House of Saud. Adib Shishakly, a founder of the Syrian National Council, is the Vice CEO. Shishakly, not a pilot, told the Saudi Gazette that he "did all the business side of it from buying the aircraft and delivering them to Rabigh. I also helped structure the maintenance department, the fuel farm, and the marketing and business strategy for the school. We have 15 aircraft: some single engine Cessnas, and single and twin Piper aircraft, as well as two twin engine Seneca Vs."

The academy's first social event was held in 2011 with the Saudi "Street Eagles," a Harley-Davidson club. In 2011, Arab News reported that Rabigh Wings Aviation Academy "is preparing to admit women for training." On May 27, 2012, the Royal Jordanian Air Academy (RJAA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Rabigh Wings Aviation Academy (RWAA) "to develop cooperation between the two academies and share experiences in the fields of aviation and aircraft maintenance." The MoU was signed by Turki bin Muqrin bin Abdul-Aziz, and Director General of RJAA Captain Mohammed Khawaldeh.

See also 
 General Authority of Civil Aviation
 Amaala International Airport
 Saudi Vision 2030

References

External links 
 
 Amazing show for Lamborghini's cars with Rabigh Wings Aviation Academy
 Street Eagles ride to meet Sky Eagles Saudi Gazette
 Taking to the sky in Rabigh Saudi Gazette

Aviation in Saudi Arabia
Aviation schools
Constant Hawk. Constant Hawk is a United States Army wide-area motion imagery system flown on crewed reconnaissance aircraft in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Constant Hawk was the first airborne Wide Area Persistent Sensor developed and deployed by the United States. It flew over 66 thousand flight hours in Iraq on five aircraft and is directly and indirectly credited with producing the intelligence data that dramatically reduced IED production and deployment.

Like similar wide-area surveillance systems, such as Gorgon Stare, ARGUS-IS or the aerostat-mounted Kestrel, Constant Hawk was designed to give operators a fuller view of an area (such as a battlefield or operating base) than they would normally get from standard full-motion video cameras.

The Army first deployed Constant Hawk in 2006 as part of a Quick Reaction Capability to help combat enemy ambushes and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Constant Hawk flew on Short 360-300s in Iraq under the command of Task Force ODIN. The system was introduced to Afghanistan in 2009, where it is still in use aboard MC-12W Liberty aircraft.

Development

Initial work on Constant Hawk began in the early 2000s (decade) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as part of the Sonoma Persistent Surveillance Program, a U.S. Department of Energy effort to monitor nuclear proliferation.

In 2005, Constant Hawk was passed to the U.S. Department of Defense, which led to its development under the Army Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, MD. 

Since 2005, MIT has been developing processing algorithms enabling efficient formation, exploitation and dissemination of Constant Hawk imagery. 
 
In 2009, BAE Systems provided an additional, infrared payload for Constant Hawk called the Airborne Wide Area Persistent Surveillance Sensor (AWAPSS).

In 2013, the MIT sensor MASIVS was deployed by Constant Hawk increasing pixel counts by an order of magnitude and providing full color imagery processed in real-time on board the aircraft.

Features
Constant Hawk includes a 96-megapixel camera as part of its sensor suite and software that detects changes and patterns in collected imagery.

This allows intelligence analysts to detect roadside bombs and prepared ambushes.

Upgrades and Similar Systems
In 2007, the U.S. Marine Corps developed an upgrade to Constant Hawk called Angel Fire. In 2011, a Constant Hawk spinoff called Kestrel began deployment on aerostats in Afghanistan.

Additionally, many of Constant Hawk's capabilities have been miniaturized or improved in newer wide-area persistent surveillance systems such as Logos Technologies' Kestrel. Kestrel reduces size and weight, while increasing image resolution and adding a day/night surveillance capability.

In addition, the U.S. Air Force is working on Gorgon Stare, a wide-area persistence surveillance system designed for the MQ-9 Reaper. Gorgon Stare was initially scheduled for deployment in 2010.

Another system still in development by DARPA is ARGUS-IS.

See also

 Wide-area motion imagery

References

Military intelligence collection
United States Army equipment
Journal of Food Process Engineering. The Journal of Food Process Engineering is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers research on applications of engineering to food and food processing. It was established in 1977 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell. The journal moved to online-only publication in 2011. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 3.0.

References

External links 
 

Bimonthly journals
Wiley-Blackwell academic journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1977
Food science journals
Sport Aviation (magazine). Sport Aviation is an aviation magazine published since 1953 starting as The Experimenter. The content focuses on experimental homebuilding of aircraft and general aviation topics, including antique, war, and classic aircraft.

History
In 1953 the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) released a two-page newsletter named The Experimenter. The newsletter was written and published by founding members Paul and Audrey Poberezny along with other volunteers. It quickly changed to a magazine format published by Times Publishing (Random Lake, Wisconsin). The Experimenter was renamed to Sport Aviation but the name was reused in 2012 for the new EAA online magazine focusing on homebuilt aircraft. Sport Aviation became a benefit of membership in the organization.

EAA Experimenter ended its publications in May 2015. This free online magazine focused on homebuilt aircraft, which debuted in September 2012. This magazine is now integrated with EAA Sport Aviation, and featured in its own separate Experimenter section since July 2015.

EAA spun off sister publications to complement its sub-organizations. These include
 EAA Sport Aviation - The flagship magazine of EAA
 Sport Aerobatics Magazine
 Warbirds Magazine
 Vintage Airplane Magazine
 EAA Airventure Today - A daily newspaper distributed for eight days at the annual EAA AirVenture Airshow in Oshkosh

References

External links
 

Aviation magazines published in the United States
English-language magazines
Experimental Aircraft Association
Magazines established in 1953
Monthly magazines published in the United States
Magazines published in Wisconsin
Pramod Chaudhari. Pramod Chaudhari is founder-chairman of Praj Industries Limited, a process and project engineering company based in Pune a city in Maharashtra state of India.  Thought Leaders (2002) includes his biography in 22 visionary Indian managers. Chaudhari has been voted amongst Globally Top 100 People in bio-energy space by Biofuels Digest. He has also been awarded the distinguished alumnus award (2005) and distinguished service award (2015)  from IIT Bombay. Praj has won the Forbes 200 Best Under a Billion Company in Asia, twice.

References

Businesspeople from Maharashtra
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Michael M. Thackeray. Michael Makepeace Thackeray  (born in 1949) is a South African chemist and battery materials researcher. He is mainly known for his work on electrochemically active cathode materials.  In the mid-1980s he co-discovered the manganese oxide spinel family of cathodes for lithium ion batteries while working in the lab of John Goodenough at the University of Oxford. In 1998, while at Argonne National Laboratory, he led a team that first reported the NMC cathode technology. Patent protection around the concept and materials were first issued in 2005 to Argonne National Laboratory to a team with Thackeray, Khalil Amine, Jaekook Kim, and Christopher Johnson. The reported invention is now widely used in consumer electronics and electric vehicles.

Career 
Thackeray obtained his M.Sc and Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. After University, he worked for the  CSIR of South Africa from 1973 to 1977 as a researcher in the National Physical Research Laboratory in Pretoria. From 1981-82, as well as in 1985, he worked with John Goodenough at the University of Oxford. In 1983 Thackeray returned to CSIR as Group Leader of the Ceramics Division and in 1988 was named a Research Manager in the Battery Technology Unit. In 1994, Thackeray moved to the Chemical Technology Division at Argonne National Laboratory in the United States, where he was named Group Leader of the Battery Materials Group within the Electrochemical Energy Storage Department. He was the founding director of the Center for Electrochemical Energy Science (CEES), a Department of Energy Energy Frontier Research Center, where he oversaw research to understand lithium-air storage chemistry, polymerized cathode coatings, and cathode surface stability. He retired in 2019.

Thackeray has co-authored more than 200 publications, and he holds more than 60 patents.

He was elected Fellow of The Electrochemical Society in 2014 and Fellow of the Royal Society in 2022. He received the Electrochemical Society Battery Division Research Award in 2005, the Yeager Award of International Battery Association in 2011 and the International Battery Association Medal of Excellence in 2019.

References

External links
 Michael Thackeray, Argonne experts page, Retrieved am 17.05.2012
 Announcement of Hydro-Québec and Technifin, Retrieved 17.05.2012

Living people
Fellows of the Royal Society
Academics of the University of Oxford
South African chemists
Argonne National Laboratory people
University of Cape Town alumni
1949 births
Guy du Merle. Guy du Merle (; 1 January 1908 – 6 June 1993) was a French aeronautical engineer, test pilot and writer. He was the first director-general of the École nationale de l'aviation civile (French civil aviation university).

Biography 
Du Merle was born in Toulon. A graduate from the École polytechnique (X 27) and the École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace (Supaéro 32), he began his career as an air military engineer in the military air center from 1933 to 1935 and test pilot on more than hundred types of aircraft, seaplanes and gliders, including, with Captain Rozanoff, the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the Heinkel He 111 captured by the Republicans in Spain in 1938. In 1945 he became director of the aerospace department, until 1948. Meanwhile, from 1940 to 1950, he taught the aerospace manufacturer at SUPAERO. In 1948, he became the first director of the École nationale de l'aviation civile (French civil aviation university), a position held until 1951 and the appointment of his successor, Gilbert Manuel.

A roundabout of the city of Toulouse bears his name.

Bibliography
 Guy du Merle, Construction des avions, Souchier, 1942, 283 p.
 Guy du Merle, Construction des avions, Dunod, 1947, 857 p.
 Guy du Merle, Aviation quand tu nous tiens, 23 p., École nationale de l'aviation civile, 1986
 Académie nationale de l'air et de l'espace and Lucien Robineau, Les français du ciel, dictionnaire historique, Le Cherche midi, June 2005, 782 p. ()

References

1908 births
1993 deaths
20th-century French male writers
French aerospace engineers
French aviators
French male writers
French test pilots
École Polytechnique alumni
Supaéro alumni
Corps de l'armement
Directors of the École nationale de l'aviation civile
Geomagic. Geomagic is the professional engineering software brand of Hexagon AB. The products are focused on computer-aided design, with an emphasis on 3D scanning and other non-traditional design methodologies, such as voxel-based modeling with haptic input.

History
Geomagic was founded in 1997 by Ping Fu and Herbert Edelsbrunner in Morrisville, North Carolina. It was acquired by 3D Systems in February 2013 and combined with that company's other software businesses (namely Rapidform acquired by 3D Systems in October 2012 and Albre in July 2011). Geomagic had previously acquired SensAble technologies. On 12 December 2024, it was acquired by Hexagon AB. It will be part of their Manufacturing Intelligence Division.

Products
Geomagic Capture is an integrated system consisting of a blue LED structured-light 3D scanner and one of several pieces of application-specific software. The systems are marketed for use as scan-based design tools, wherein a physical object is 3D scanned and then converted into a 3D CAD model, or inspection tools, wherein a physical object is scanned and then dimensionally verified by comparing to a nominal 3D CAD model.

Geomagic Design is a mechanical Computer-Aided Design software, with an emphasis on the design of mechanical systems and assemblies. Geomagic Freeform and Sculpt software are voxel-based modeling software packages, and are bundled with 3D Systems' Touch haptic devices which interface with the software to deliver force-feedback to the user. Geomagic Design X, Design Direct, Studio and Wrap are software products that offer different workflows for creating manufacturing-ready 3D models, including Solid modeling and NURBS surfacing.

Geomagic Qualify and Geomagic Verify focus on delivering measurement, comparison and reporting software tools for first-article and automated inspection processes. Data from point cloud and 3D scanners and Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs) can be used, as well as CAD data imported into the system.

References

External links
3D Systems website

Software companies based in North Carolina
Manufacturing software
Computer-aided design
Defunct software companies of the United States
AIR Shipper. The AIR Shipper is a regulatory manual utilized by air shippers for shipping dangerous goods. A.I.R. Shipper is the first regulations publication recognized by the International Civil Aviation Organization and is developed in compliance with ICAO standards. A.I.R. Shipper is published by Labelmaster, a U.S.-based manufacturer of regulatory compliance products.

See also

 List of UN numbers
 Packaging and labeling
 Packing groups
 UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods

References

Safety
Hazardous materials
Kosmos 2430. Kosmos 2430 ( meaning Cosmos 2430) was a Russian US-K missile early warning satellite which was launched in 2007 as part of the Russian Space Forces' Oko programme. The satellite was designed to identify missile launches using optical telescopes and infrared sensors.

Kosmos 2430 was launched from Site 16/2 at Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia. A Molniya-M carrier rocket with a 2BL upper stage was used to perform the launch, which took place at 04:39 UTC on 23 October 2007. The launch successfully placed the satellite into a molniya orbit. It subsequently received its Kosmos designation, and the international designator 2007-049A. The United States Space Command assigned it the Satellite Catalog Number 32268.

In May 2012, it did not perform a manoeuvre and drifted off station.

On 5 January 2019, it was caught on video as it de-orbited over the North Island of New Zealand.

See also

List of Kosmos satellites (2251–2500)
List of R-7 launches (2005–2009)
2007 in spaceflight
List of Oko satellites

References

Kosmos satellites
Spacecraft launched in 2007
Oko
Spacecraft launched by Molniya-M rockets
Spacecraft which reentered in 2019
Sparrowhawk (disambiguation). Sparrowhawk is a name applied to several bird species.

Sparrowhawk  or sparrow hawk may also refer to:

Ships
 HMS Sparrowhawk, the name of several ships belonging to the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom
 Sparrowhawk, a mercantile barque, later coal lighter, formerly HMS Sparrowhawk (1856)
Sparrow Hawk (pinnace), an English ship that wrecked on Cape Cod in New England in 1626, and is currently owned by the Pilgrim Hall Museum

Aircraft
 AAI Sparrowhawk, a two-seat homebuilt gyroplane
 Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk, a light biplane fighter aircraft, formerly carried by the United States Navy airships USS Akron and USS Macon
 Gloster Sparrowhawk British single-seat fighter aircraft
 Miles Sparrowhawk, British single-seat racing and touring monoplane
 Savoia-Marchetti S.M.79 Sparviero (Sparrowhawk in Italian), a three-engined Italian medium bomber
 Soko J-20 Kraguj (English: Soko J-20 Sparrowhawk), Yugoslavian light ground-attack and training aircraft
 Windward Performance SparrowHawk, a high-performance ultralight sailplane
 Sparrowhawk, the call sign given to civilian aircraft carrying members of the British royal family or which has 'royal flight' status

Other uses
 Operation Epervier (English: Operation Sparrowhawk) (1986–present), codename for the French military presence in Chad
 Sparrowhawk Hill, Cayman Islands
 Sparrowhawk Media, British media company
 Sparrowhawk, a series of novels by Edward Cline
 Mount Sparrowhawk, Canadian Rockies
 The common name of Ged (Earthsea), main protagonist in the Earthsea novels by Ursula Le Guin
Goshawk (disambiguation). Goshawk is a name applied to several species of birds of prey.
Goshawk may also refer to:

Aviation
 Curtiss F11C Goshawk, a Curtiss Hawk-series biplane fighter-bomber
 Curtiss BF2C Goshawk, a biplane primarily used in the Chinese Air Force from 1937 to 1941, also called the Hawk III
 Rolls-Royce Goshawk, an aircraft engine
 T-45 Goshawk, a training aircraft used by the United States Navy

Ships
 , the name of several ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy
 USS Goshawk, the name assigned to three US Navy ships, of which only one was built
 USS Goshawk (AM-79), a Goshawk-class minesweeper built in 1919

Books
 Goshawk Squadron, a 1971 novel by Derek Robinson
 The Goshawk, a 1951 book by T. H. White

Other uses
 "The Gay Goshawk", Child ballad number 96, a folksong
Ellison-Mahon Gweduck. The Ellison-Mahon Gweduck or Geoduck is an American twin-engine amphibious aircraft, built from composites to resemble the Grumman Widgeon.

Design and development

The Gweduck is a re-engined "re-creation" in modern composite materials of the early 1940s Grumman G-44 Widgeon. The name can also be written Geoduck and is not named for a bird, but a large clam. Although it is broadly similar to the Widgeon and follows its cantilever high-wing monoplane, twin engined, cruciform tail and tailwheel undercarriage layout, it has more powerful engines, retractable floats, more cabin windows and is larger all around.

The Gweduck's structure is formed from glass and carbon fibre. Its high wings are trapezoidal in plan, fitted with externally balanced ailerons and Fowler flaps. Each wing has a float mounted below it on a single, wide chord strut which rotates through 90° after take-off to place the float at the wing tip. A pair of  Lycoming IO-540 six cylinder horizontally opposed engines are mounted forward of the wing leading edge with their thrust lines above the upper surface. The Gweduck has a single step hull, with the pilots' cabin just forward of the wing leading edge; behind them, the passenger cabin has four windows on each side. Tail surfaces are straight edged, the tailplane trapezoidal and the fin leading edge swept, with a horn balanced rudder and externally mass balanced elevators. On land the Gweduck uses a conventional undercarriage, with mainwheels that retract but remain exposed in the fuselage sides and a tailwheel that retracts behind doors in the extreme rear fuselage.

The first flight was on 2 May 2009 from Lake Washington. By June 2010, 200 flying hours had been logged.

Operational history
By April 2017, one example, the prototype, had been registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration.

Specifications

References

External links

Amphibious aircraft
Flying boats
Gweduck
High-wing aircraft
2000s United States civil utility aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 2009
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft
Robots (song). "Robots" is the third single from Kate Ryan's fifth studio album Electroshock. It was released in Belgium via iTunes on 12 May 2012.  The song's melody is based on the riff of the song Living on Video by Trans-X.

Track listing
Digital download - single
 "Robots" (radio edit) - 3:17
 "Robots" (extended version) - 5:28
 "Robots" (Shutterz remix) - 6:14
 "Robots" (Chris Feelding remix) - 4:47
 "Robots" (William Burstedt) - 3:33

Chart performance

Release history

References

External links

Kate Ryan songs
2012 singles
2010 songs