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Globe KDG Snipe. The Globe KDG Snipe was an American target drone, built by the Globe Aircraft Corporation for use by the United States Navy. The KDG, and its modified version, the KD3G Snipe, served between 1946 and the early 1950s.

Design and development
The KDG Snipe was a small, mid-winged target drone, operated by radio control. The Snipe was designed to be launched by use of a catapult system; if the aircraft was not destroyed during its mission, it would deploy a parachute for recovery. The KDG was powered by a McCulloch 4300 two-stroke engine; an improved version, designated KD3G, was powered by a  Kiekhaefer O-45 opposed piston engine.

Operational history
The Snipe entered service with the U.S. Navy in 1946; the KDG had been retired from service by 1950. The improved KD3G model remained in service through the early 1950s.

Variants
KDG-1
Basic model with McCulloch 4300 engine.
KDG-2
KDG-1 with 24-volt electrical system.
KD3G-1
KDG-1 with Kiekhaefer O-45-35 engine.
KD3G-2
KD3G-1 with 28-volt electrical system.

Specifications (KD3G-2)

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Citations

Bibliography

KD1G
1940s United States special-purpose aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Mid-wing aircraft
Target drones of the United States
Aircraft first flown in 1946
SONAPS. SONAPS or Sonaps is a network TV production system by Sony. It allows planning, ingesting, editing and playouting of video material. The main focus are News programs. An essential part of Sonaps is the professional non-linear video editing system XPRI NS. Sonaps can be used with already existing network infrastructure. Standard video format is the Media Exchange Format (MXF).

Sonaps supplies an own nearline archive and interfaces to 3rd party archive systems. Through the MOS (Media Object Server) gateway it can be connected to NRCS (Newsroom Computer Systems) and other network production systems.

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Sony products
Television technology
TAI Baykuş. TAI Baykuş is a radio-controlled tactical unmanned drone designed, developed and built by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) between 2003-2004.

Baykuş is the Turkish word for "owl". TAI produces other UAVs named after birds.

Development
The UAV was developed based on the experience gained by its half-sized model TAI Pelikan.

The shoulder-winged UAV has all composite material airframe with metal twin tail booms. The drone is propelled by two 2-cylinder 2-stroke gasoline engines of type JPX DC320 from France with 2 x  power. There exist two versions of TAI Baykuş related to propeller configuration, a pusher and a tractor aircraft.

The drone carries a two-axis gimbaled EO/IR camera, which relays its video in real-time telemetry. Its guidance/tracking takes place fully autonomous based on INS/GPS integrated waypoint navigation system. Take off and landing of the drone is accomplished in conventional way on wheels.

Specifications

See also
 Bayraktar Mini UAV
 Bayraktar TB2
 Bayraktar Akıncı
 Bayraktar Tactical UAS
 TAI Anka
 TAI Aksungur

References

Unmanned military aircraft of Turkey
Reconnaissance aircraft
Baykus
Twin-engined push-pull aircraft
Twin-boom aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Temco XKDT Teal. The Temco XKDT Teal was an American rocket-propelled, high-performance target drone, built by Temco Aircraft for evaluation by the United States Navy in the late 1950s. Production was not proceeded with following evaluation of the type.

Design and development
The XKDT was designed for use an inexpensive and expendable air-launched, high-performance target drone. Its design utilized a low-set swept wing, and an inverted cruciform tail; the structure of the aircraft included aluminum honeycomb wing construction and extensive use of magnesium and fiberglass in the fuselage. It was intended to reach speeds of up to Mach 0.95.

The Teal could be launched at any altitude of up to ; speed at launch was between  and . Following launch a dual-thrust solid fuel rocket motor ignited; thrust was  for the first four seconds of powered flight, followed by  for approximately 500 seconds propulsive time. Control was provided by a three-axis autopilot; radar reflectors and infrared flares provided an assist in tracking the drone, and at the end of nine minutes' flight time a self-destruct device would be activated.

Operational history
The first flight of a XKDT-1 took place in September 1957; most flights utilized a McDonnell F3H Demon carrier aircraft.  Following the conclusion of the evaluation program, no production contract was placed; supersonic targets having become preferred.

Specifications (XKDT-1)

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KDT
1950s United States special-purpose aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Rocket-powered aircraft
Target drones of the United States
Cancelled military aircraft projects of the United States
Aircraft first flown in 1957
Jayawantrao Sawant Polytechnic. Jayawantrao Sawant Polytechnic (JSP) is a private technology institute established by Jayawant Shikshan Prasarak Mandal (JSPM) on the second campus at number 58 of Handewadi Road, Hadapsar, Pune, in the Indian state of Maharashtra.  The institute is approved by All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), and is recognized by the government of Maharashtra.

See also
 Jayawantrao Sawant College of Engineering

References

External links

Educational institutions established in 2004
Engineering colleges in Pune
Information technology institutes
Colleges affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University
2004 establishments in Maharashtra
David Curwen. David C. Curwen (30 November 1913 – 26 May 2011) was an English miniature railway steam locomotive mechanical engineer.

Born in Sydenham, South London, and educated at King's School, Canterbury, Curwen worked from 1935 to 1945 for Short Brothers in Rochester as an aircraft engineer.  

In 1946, he established his own engineering firm, Baydon. In 1950 he married Barbara Willans, an actress. In 1951 he became Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for its first year of preservation. 

At the end of the 1951 season, he returned to Devizes, Wiltshire where he went into partnership with A.E. Newbery to create Curwen and Newbery.  He left the partnership in 1966 and established his own workshop at All Cannings, Wiltshire.

He published his autobiography titled Rule of Thumb in 2006, and a review of his work was published as The Miniature Locomotives of David Curwen in 2008, by Dave Holdroyd.

Locomotives
Locomotives built by Curwen include the following:
 William Bell, a  gauge 4-6-2 built in 1946/47 for the Hilsea Miniature Railway on Portsea Island
 Robin Hood, a  gauge 4-6-2 built in 1946/47 for the Weymouth Miniature Railway that ran adjacent to Radipole Lake
 Waverley, a  gauge 4-4-2 built in 1948. It was originally named Black Prince and used on a railway in Weymouth, Dorset. It was later in use at the Isle of Mull Railway, and is now based at Rudyard Lake Steam Railway, in Staffordshire.
 John H Gretton, another  gauge 4-4-2 built in 1948, based at the Stapleford Miniature Railway in Leicestershire, rebuilt in 1969.
 Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a  gauge 2-6-0 built in 1977 for the Age of Steam in Penzance where it ran on the Crowlas Woodland Railway. This locomotive now resides on Royal Victoria Railway in Southampton where there is a new-build twin locomotive named Sammy The Sergeant.
 No. 5, nicknamed The Lawnmower, a  gauge lightweight locomotive built in 1952 for the Talyllyn Railway using a Model T Ford engine, transmission from the narrowboat of L.T.C. Rolt and the wheels from a slate wagon. It worked the Fridays-only winter passenger service until 1953, when it was taken out of use with a failed gearbox. It was dismantled in 1954, and converted into a flat wagon. It was proposed to rebuild it as a memorial to Curwen, using a replacement engine and bodywork.

Notes

Source 
 The Miniature Locomotives of David Curwen, 2008 by Lawson Little and Dave Holdroyd

People from Sydenham, London
Locomotive builders and designers
English railway mechanical engineers
English mechanical engineers
Talyllyn Railway
1913 births
2011 deaths
British people associated with Heritage Railways
RotorWay 300T Eagle. The RotorWay 300T Eagle is an American helicopter that was under development by RotorWay International  of Chandler, Arizona, in 2009-2011. The aircraft was intended to be certified and supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft for the flight training and aerial work markets.

The aircraft was announced at AirVenture 2009, with a first flight then predicted for 2010. The company started taking US$5,000 customer deposits at that time.

Design and development
The 300T Eagle features a single main rotor, a two-seats-in side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit with a windshield, skid-type landing gear and a  Rolls-Royce RR300-B1 turboshaft engine. The aircraft has an empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload is .

Since the initial announcement of the aircraft in 2009 no further information has been provided by the company and no announcement of a first flight has been made. The company's webpage about the aircraft had been removed by the end of 2011 and the project may have been cancelled.

Specifications (300T Eagle)

References

External links
Archive of the official 300T Eagle page on Archive.org

Abandoned civil aircraft projects of the United States
Single-turbine helicopters
2010s United States helicopters
Type 0. Type 0 or Type O may refer to:

Type 0

Aircraft
Type 0 Carrier Fighter Mitsubishi A6M, a Japanese fighter aircraft
Type 0 Observation Seaplane Mitsubishi F1M, a Japanese reconnaissance seaplane
Type 0 Reconnaissance Seaplane Aichi E13A, a Japanese reconnaissance seaplane
Type 0 Small Reconnaissance Seaplane Yokosuka E14Y, a Japanese submarine-based reconnaissance seaplane
Type 0 Transport Showa/Nakajima L2D, a Japanese transport aircraft

Watercraft
Type-0 heavy lift vessel Dockwise Vanguard, a semi-submersible heavy lift ship

Entertainment
 Final Fantasy Type-0, a video game

Science
Glycogen storage disease type 0, a disease
Type 0 civilization in the Kardashev scale of technological advancement
Type-0 language or Recursively enumerable language in the Chomsky hierarchy of formal languages
Type 0 string theory, a model of string theory

Type O
Type O in the ABO blood group system
an O-type star
an O-type main-sequence star
an O-type giant star
a subdwarf O star
the Handley Page Type O, a biplane
 an O-type asteroid

See also
 Typo (disambiguation)
Australis-OSCAR 5. Australis-OSCAR 5 (a.k.a. AO-5) is an amateur radio satellite that was launched into Low Earth Orbit on 23 January 1970 by a Thor Delta launcher from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Lompoc, California. AO-5 was launched piggyback with TIROS-M (ITOS-1) weather satellite).

Spacecraft 
Built by students at The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Battery powered, Australis-OSCAR 5 transmitted telemetry on both 2 meter (144.050 MHz at 50 mW) and 10 meter (29.450 MHz at 250 mW) bands that operated for 23 and 46 days respectively. Passive magnetic attitude stabilization was performed by carrying two bar magnets to align with the Earth's magnetic field in order to provide a favorable antenna footprint. The University of Melbourne compiled tracking reports from hundreds of stations in 27 countries.

Firsts  
 First amateur satellite to be remotely controlled.
 First amateur satellite launch coordinated by new AMSAT organization.
 Switch to Arabic numbering for this and future OSCAR satellites, from earlier Roman numeral usage (I, II, III, IV) by Project Oscar.

Notes 
 David Bellair and Stephen Howard, "Australis Oscar - Its Design, Construction and Operation," QST, July 1969, pp 58–61
 David Bellair and Stephen Howard, "Obtaining Data from Australis-Oscar 5," QST, August 1969, pp 70, 72, 82
 Jan King, "Proposed Experiments with Australis-Oscar 5," QST, December 1969, pp 54–55
 "Strays", QST, March 1970, p. 86 (a bibliography on AO-5)
 William Dunkerley Jr., "Australis Oscar 5: The Launch Story," QST, April 1970, p. 61
 Ray Soifer, "Australis-Oscar 5 Ionospheric Propagation Results", QST, October 1970, pp 54–57
 Jan King, "Australis-Oscar 5 Spacecraft Performance", QST, December 1970, pp 64–69

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Satellites of Australia
1970 establishments in Australia
Amateur radio satellites
Spacecraft launched in 1970
Righter O-45. The Righter/Kiekhaefer O-45 was an air-cooled, two-stroke aircraft engine of flat-twin configuration, used extensively for powering target drones in the late 1940s.

Designed by the Righter Manufacturing Company, the O-45 was also built by the Kiekhaefer Corporation and the Menasco Motors Company.

Variants
O-45-1
  version
O-45-3
  version
O-45-35
 Navy version of O-45-3

Applications
 Beecraft Wee Bee
 Frankfort OQ-16/TD3D
 Globe KD3G Snipe
 Globe KD4G Quail
 OQ-15
 Radioplane OQ-6
 Radioplane OQ-14
 Radioplane OQ-17/KDR
 Radioplane TDD
 ULM 811 Ultra Cruiser Ultavia

Specifications (O-45-1)

See also

References

Boxer engines
1940s aircraft piston engines
Two-stroke aircraft piston engines
Oliver George Simmons. Oliver George Simmons (July 14, 1878 – April 9, 1948) was an early airplane mechanic and aviator.

Life
He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps and served in the Philippines from 1899 to 1902. He became a private first class. He married Dual Leaman on July 12, 1904. He studied at Catholic University.

As a civilian mechanic working for the army, he was assigned to the Wright Military Flyer. He went with it to College Park Airport, and Fort Sam Houston. On 8 August 1910, he installed tricycle landing gear, with Glen Madole.

On July 14, 1911, he left to work for Robert J. Collier. He learned to fly at Dayton, Ohio, and Wickatunk, New Jersey, where he soloed on May 18, 1912. On July 4, 1912, he flew a Wright-Burgess seaplane, from South Amboy to Perth Amboy, across the Raritan River, to drop mail.

He worked for National Tool Company in Cleveland, Ohio and became president and general manager, a position he held until his retirement in 1936.

He died at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

Legacy
He is an inductee of the Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey.

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1878 births
1948 deaths
American aviation pioneers
Members of the Early Birds of Aviation
People from Philadelphia
Catholic University of America alumni
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
United States Army soldiers
United States Army Air Forces civilians
Globe KD2G Firefly. The Globe KD2G Firefly was a pulsejet-powered American target drone, built by the Globe Aircraft Corporation for operation by the United States Navy in the late 1940s, seeing operational use into the mid-1950s.

Design and development
The KD2G was a mid-wing, twin-tailed aircraft of similar design to the KDG Snipe which Globe was already supplying to the Navy. A single McDonnell PJ42 pulsejet engine was mounted atop the rear of the fuselage. The fuselage was constructed of steel tubing with a duralumin monocoque covering; dural was also used for the flying surfaces. The KD2G was equipped with radio control with an effective range of ; it could be launched using a catapult, or launched aerially from JD-1 or F7F-2D aircraft. Recovery, if it survived its mission, was by a  diameter parachute; the Firefly was designed to be able to float for up to 15 minutes in the event of a water landing.

Operational history
First flying as the XKD2G-1 prototype during 1946, the KD2G-1 entered service with the United States Navy during 1947. The improved KD2G-2, powered by a Solar PJ32 pulsejet, began production in 1950; it was the first successful jet-powered target drone to be developed following the end of World War II. The KD2G remained in service through the mid-1950s, being replaced by the KD6G.

Variants
XKD2G-1
Prototype with McDonnell PJ42 engine.

KD2G-1
Production version of XKD2G-1 with 28-volt electrical system.

KD2G-2
Improved production model with Solar PJ32 engine.

Surviving aircraft

A KD2G-2 is displayed at the Aircraft Pavilion of the Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile, Alabama.

Specifications (KD2G-2)

See also

References

Citations

Bibliography

External links

KD2G
1940s United States special-purpose aircraft
Single-engined jet aircraft
Pulsejet-powered aircraft
Mid-wing aircraft
Target drones of the United States
Aircraft first flown in 1946
Globe KD4G Quail. The Globe KD4G Quail was an American target drone, built by the Globe Aircraft Corporation for use by the United States Navy.

Design and development
A catapult-launched, high-wing monoplane, the KD4G was of all-metal construction. The Quail was launched by a catapult; power was supplied by a two-cylinder Kiekhaefer O-45 opposed piston engine producing .

Operational history
The KD4G-1 first flew in 1949; soon afterwards an improved version, the KD4G-2, was introduced, however neither variant was produced in significant numbers.

References

Citations

Bibliography

KD4G
1940s United States special-purpose aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Target drones of the United States
Aircraft first flown in 1949
TAI Martı. TAI Martı is a radio-controlled  surveillance unmanned drone designed, developed and built by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) in 2003.

Martı is the Turkish word for "seagull". TAI produces other UAVs named after birds.

Development
The shoulder-winged UAV has all composite material airframe. The drone is propelled by a 2-cylinder 2-stroke gasoline engine of type OS MAX 46 FXi by German company Graupner GmbH with  power or
Zenoah G38 from Japan with  in tractor configuration. The drone carries a two-axis gimbaled EO/IR camera, which relays its video in real-time telemetry. Its guidance/tracking takes place fully autonomous based on INS/GPS integrated waypoint navigation system. Take off of the drone can be accomplished in conventional way on wheels or by catapult and the recovery on wheels or by parachute.

TAI Martı was produced originally for pilot training, and is in service since 2003. The development of aerial-photographic camera as well as studies for digital image analysis and retrieval were carried out in cooperation with Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). In 2004, TAI Martı successfully completed the testing in aerial image retrieval and shootings in Mersin that led to replacement of older retrieval system with balloons.

Specifications

References

Unmanned aerial vehicles of Turkey
Marti
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Vybrid Series. The Vybrid Series is a low power System on chip from Freescale Semiconductor with ARM Cortex-A5 and optional Cortex-M4 cores. VF6xx comes with asymmetrical multiprocessing using both cores. Alternatives such as the VF5xx and VF3xx only support the ARM Cortex-A5.  The ARM Cortex-A5 cores run from 266 MHz to 500 MHz depending on package options and ARM Cortex-M4 Cores at 168 MHz if present.

References

External links
 Freescale processors roadmap by series on EASA

Freescale Semiconductor
NXP Semiconductors
TAI Şimşek. TAI Şimşek is a turbojet-powered radio-controlled high-speed target drone designed, developed and built by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) between 2009-2012 for the needs of the Turkish Armed Forces.

Şimşek is the Turkish word for "lightning".

Overview
Development started in 2009, and a prototype was presented to the public at the International Defence Industry Fair the same year. The UAV made its maiden flight on August 4, 2012.

Şimşek simulates enemy aircraft and missiles for air-to-air, surface-to-air, anti-aircraft gunnery and missile systems’ tracking and firing training. It looks like tactical air-launched decoys (TALDs).

TAI intends to further develop the drone into a cruise missile with "Human-in-the-Loop" (HITL) guidance capability for use against mobile or fixed soft targets.

Payloads of TAI Şimşek consists of following features:
 Passive Radar Cross-Section Augmenter (Luneburg lens)
 Passive IR Signature
 Miss Distance Indicator (MDI)
 Counter-measures Dispensing System
 Tracking Smoke Generator

The drone is launched from a catapult and recovered by parachute. It can take off and can be controlled from navy vessels.

In July 2020 TAI launched Şimşek from TAI Anka integrated arm and made history by launching the target drone from UAV for the first time.

Specifications

References

External links
Launch image of TAI Şimşek

Target drones of Turkey
Simsek
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined jet aircraft
Harold Locke Hazen. Harold Locke Hazen (August 1, 1901 – February 21, 1980) was an American electrical engineer. He contributed to the theory of servomechanisms and feedback control systems. In 1924 under the lead of Vannevar Bush, Hazen and his fellow undergraduate Hugh H. Spencer built a prototype AC network analyzer, a special-purpose analog computer for solving problems in interconnected AC power systems.  Hazen also worked with Bush over twenty years on such projects as the mechanical differential analyzer. This early work, and the binary algebra used, would be foundational to the emergence of electromechanical and digital computers in later decades.

Education and career
Hazen was born at Philo, Illinois in 1901. Several years later, his parents moved to Three Rivers, Michigan, where he graduated from high school. He went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as an undergraduate student in 1920. When he graduated from MIT in 1924, he briefly worked for General Electric. In 1925 he returned to MIT as research assistant and instructor in 1926. he obtained his master's degree in 1929 and his Doctor of Science degree in 1931.

In 1934 Hazen published two papers on the theory and design of servomechanisms which provided clear descriptions of the operation of servos and a design methodology.

After 1937 Hazen became increasingly involved in teaching and administrative work, becoming Head of department in 1938 and serving for fourteen years. From December 1942 until 1946 he was head of Division 7, "Fire Control", of the NDRC (National Defence Research Committee). In 1952 he became Dean of the MIT Graduate School until his retirement in 1967.

In 1928 he was married to Katherine Pharis Salisbury (1905-2003), eldest child of Bert E. Salisbury and Mary Patterson Pharis. They had two sons and two daughters.

In his later life Dr. Hazen promoted engineering education programs both in the United States and internationally. Harold Hazen died in Belmont, Massachusetts, in February 1980.

Dr. Hazen and his wife resided in Belmont, Massachusetts, except for living in Columbus, Ohio during the 1934–1935 academic year when he was named the first exchange professor between MIT and Ohio State University.

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1901 births
1980 deaths
20th-century American engineers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty