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Dive Bomber (video game). Dive Bomber (known as Night Raider in Europe) is a video game developed by Acme Animation in 1988 for the Commodore 64. It was ported to Atari ST, Apple II, ZX Spectrum and MS-DOS.

Plot
Dive Bomber is a game in which the player flies a Grumman Avenger while searching for the German battleship Bismarck. The player first must learn to fly the plane before going on a mission. The player takes off from and lands on the aircraft carrier Ark Royal. The player selects one of four missions by drawing straws in the opening sequence of the game.

Gameplay
Dive Bomber has digitized sound. The player uses a mouse with the Atari ST and Amiga versions for menu selections and when flying the aircraft. The game makes use of several screens. The player uses the Pilot's Screen when flying, using controls including the brake, vertical speed, artificial horizon, and torpedo release. The player uses the Engineer's Screen to choose fuel tanks and the fuel mixture as well as control the throttle. The player uses the Navigator's Screen to view an area map displaying where enemy aircraft and ships are located. The player uses the Tail Gunner's Screen to see behind the plane and use the machine guns against enemy aircraft attacking from the rear. Tips for flying the Avenger can be found in the player's manual.

Reception
The game was reviewed in 1989 in Dragon #141 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 4½ out of 5 stars. 1991 and 1993 Computer Gaming World surveys of strategy and war games gave it one half star out of five, criticizing "mediocre graphics, documentation and an overall lack of panache".

Reviews
 ST Action - September 1988
 ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) - September 1988
 Sinclair User - August 1988
 The Games Machine - November 1988
 The Games Machine - August 1988
 Your Sinclair - October 1988
 Computer and Video Games - August 1988
 The Games Machine - October 1988
 New Computer Express - December 1988
 Computer Gaming World - November 1991
Fire & Movement #76

References

External links
 Dive Bomber at MobyGames
 Review in Antic

1988 video games
Acme Animation games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari ST games
Cancelled Amiga games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Single-player video games
U.S. Gold games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games
Multicar. Multicar is a small, specialized multifunctional equipment transporter manufactured at the Hako GmbH factory in Waltershausen, Germany. Multicar is the only brand that has survived from the East German IFA vehicle industry which still produces its own vehicles.

History
In 1920 the present company was founded as the ADE works (named after Arthur Ade). It produced agricultural equipment, trailers and clutches. After the Second World War, production was resumed in 1946 under the name “Gerätebau Waltershausen”.

In 1948 the company was renamed VEB Fahrzeugwerk Waltershausen, a name it retained until its privatization in 1991. In 1956 production began on the DK 3 diesel cart (also known as the Diesel Ant, ants being hard-working). This had been developed in the Ludwigsfelde works and was actually an Electrocar with a diesel engine. Two years later, the first “Multicar”, the M21, was produced. By 1964, 14,000 units had left the factory in Waltershausen. For the following ten years the M22 mini truck left the production line, with 42,500 vehicles built. Until 1978, its successor, the M24, was produced with 25,600 vehicles leaving the factory, 48% of which were exported. The M25 was a major export; 70% went to the Comecon states and the West. The M25 had an IFA-built diesel engine with . Its production was continued in 1991 with the Modell 91, which had a VW engine. Approximately 100,000 units were produced.

In 1991, the state-owned factory was privatized. The crucial driving force behind the turnaround – and after reunification – was the former director of materials management at Multicar, Manfred Windus, who was honored in 1993 as manager of the year. From 1993 to 2011, the M26 was produced. In 1998 the west German Hako-Werke bought the shares held by Deutsche Beteiligungsgesellschaft (an equity fund) and thus became the majority shareholder. The products TREMO and UX100 were moved to Waltershausen. In 2001 production began on a new series, FUMO (short for FUnction and MObility). Since 2004, in cooperation with Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, the Specialty Vehicle Mungo has been produced for use in the Bundeswehr. The manager Walter Botschatzki was awarded the Order of Merit First Class in 2005 by the German Federal President Horst Köhler.

In 2005 Multicar was officially merged with Hako, being a brand name only. Since spring 2013 Multicar is only a product line under the Hako umbrella brand name.

The recent products M27, FUMO and the particularly narrow TREMO Carrier are equipped with engines that meet all of the Euro-5 emission standards. Currently, seven vehicles are produced a day.

Gallery

See also
Barkas
IFA
Magirus

References
 Udo Bols: Multicar. Der Alleskönner. Podszun, Brilon 2003,

External links 

 Multicar official page
 
 MDR: D-Mark für alle, Historic documentation, Zeitzeuge Manfred Windus
 Technical Data M 21

Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau
Light trucks
Truck manufacturers of Germany
Economy of East Germany
De Zwaluw, Oudemolen. De Zwaluw (English: The Swallow) is a smock mill in Oudemolen, Drenthe, the Netherlands. It was built in 1837 and is listed as a Rijksmonument, number 38148.

History
De Zwaluw was built in 1837 by millwrights L Reinds of Beilen and B Sluter of De Groeve. The mill incorporated parts from a windmill at Schipborg which had been demolished. It replaced a post mill which itself had replaced a watermill on the Drentsche Aa river. The mill came into the ownership of the Greving family in 1876. It was worked by successive generations of the Greving family until 1947 when a sailstock broke.

In 1951, millwright Christiaan Bremer of Adorp, Groningen fitted a new cast-iron windshaft to replace the previous wooden one. This came from a windmill at Termunten, Groningen which had burnt down in 1944. A new pair of Patent sails was fitted at this time. The restored mill was officially opened on 27 September 1951. The mill was out of use from 1970 and in 1980 was purchased from the Greving family by the Gemeente Vries. A further restoration was undertaken in 1982. In 2008-09, further restoration work was carried out at the mill at a cost of €36,524.

Description

De Zwaluw is what the Dutch describe as an "achtkante grondzeiler". It is a three-storey smock mill on a single-storey brick base. There is no stage, the sails reaching almost to the ground. The smock and cap are thatched. The mill is winded by a tailpole and winch. The four Common sails have a span of  are carried in a cast-iron windshaft, which was cast by Fabrikaat Prins van Oranje of The Hague, South Holland in 1893. It has been lengthened by about  for use in De Zwaluw. The windshaft also carries the brake wheel, which has 60 cogs. The brake wheel drives the wallower (31 cogs) at the top of the upright shaft. At the bottom of the upright shaft the great spur wheel, which has 79 cogs, drives the  diameter  Cullen millstones via a lantern pinion stone nut which has 25 staves each. The millstones are driven overdrift. As of October 2009, the inner sail stock is the oldest surviving example made by Christiaan Bremer.

Public access

De Zwaluw is open on Saturdays from 11:00 to 16:00. During  the summer months it is also open on Wednesdays from 14:00 to 16:00.

References

External links

Photographs showing how the cast-iron windshaft was fitted in 1951.

Windmills in Drenthe
Smock mills in the Netherlands
Windmills completed in 1837
Rijksmonuments in Drenthe
Octagonal buildings in the Netherlands
De Zwaluw, Oudemolen
Motorola 68HC05. The 68HC05 (also abbreviated as HC05) is a broad family of 8-bit microcontrollers from Motorola Semiconductor (later Freescale then NXP).

Like all Motorola processors that share lineage from the 6800, they use the von Neumann architecture as well as memory-mapped I/O.  This family has five CPU registers that are not part of the memory: an 8-bit accumulator A, an 8-bit index register X, an 8-bit stack pointer SP with two most significant bits hardwired to 1, a 13-bit program counter PC, and an 8-bit condition code register CCR.

Among the HC05's there are several processor families, each targeted to different embedded applications.

The 68HC05 family broke ground with the introduction of the EEPROM-based MC68HC805C4 and MC68HC805B6 variants in the late 1980s. Using a serial bootloader, they could be programmed in-circuit with simple software running on a PC and a low current 19 V supply (no programmer required).

The HC05 series is now considered legacy and is replaced by the HC(S)08 MCU series.

Nomenclature

External links 
 68HC05 and 6805 family datasheets - archive.org
 Archives of old 68HC05 and 68HC705 manuals
 Digital Core Design 68HC05 - HDL IP Core
 MC68HC805B6 (6k EEPROM program memory) Programmer

Freescale Semiconductor microcontrollers
Motorola microcontrollers
Napkin PC. The Napkin PC is a concept for a next-generation computer entered into the 2009 Next-Gen PC Design Competition by Avery Holleman. The concept won first prize, the Chairman's Award. The award was personally presented to Holleman by Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Holleman received $20,000 in prize money for the accolade.

There is currently no plan to build the device; it remains a concept. The technology is based on current technologies, like e-paper and radio frequency.

Design
A "napkin" holder functions as a base-station for the technology. The base-station is filled with e-paper "napkins", as well as a place for some coloured pens. The user can simply pick up a pen and interact with the napkin using the pen. The napkin and pen communicate using short-range RF technology, while both connect with the base-station using long-range RF waves.

Holleman has also stated that the napkins can easily be shared. The napkins are also modular. The pen wirelessly powers the napkin when it comes into close range.

Production
Images of the concept released by Holleman show the device running a variant of Windows.

Holleman hopes that the Napkin PC will encourage creative groups to collaborate better because of the conference abilities of the concept.

The device will require very little power. It will rely on not a battery, but a single-layer flexible circuit board for inductive power. Holleman also hopes that the device will help cut down on paper waste and reduce the need for printers in modern society.

References

Personal computers
Computer-related introductions in 2008
Gannex. Gannex is a waterproof fabric composed of an outer layer of nylon and an inner layer of wool with air between them. The trapped air is contained in pockets formed by fusing ("spot welding") the two layers at intervals. It was invented in 1951 by Joseph Kagan, a UK industrialist and the founder of Kagan Textiles Ltd., of Elland, which made raincoats. The company is now defunct. The mill occupied by the company was demolished in 2010. The raincoats were worn by a number of well-known people, such as the Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

References

John A. Hargreaves, "Kagan, Joseph, Baron Kagan (1915–1995)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 17 Dec 2006

Products introduced in 1951
Technical fabrics
Brand name materials
Textile companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in Elland
Pinchbeck Engine. The Pinchbeck Engine is a drainage engine, a rotative beam engine built in 1833 to drain Pinchbeck Marsh, to the north of Spalding, Lincolnshire, in England. Until it was shut down in 1952, the engine discharged into the Blue Gowt which joins the River Glen at Surfleet Seas End.

Museum
In 1952 the engine was rendered obsolete by modern electric pumps and stood forgotten until being opened to the public as a museum in 1979.  The coal store was cleared and now houses the associated Museum of Land Drainage.  The museum complex includes the blacksmith's shop, still in its original condition.  The museum is operated by the Welland and Deepings Internal Drainage Board, successors to the commissioners who erected the engine. The buildings are Grade II listed and also a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

The chimney was demolished in 1952, and no actions were taken to preserve the boiler, which is no longer in a fit state to be used.  The engine is a static exhibit, which can be rotated by an electric motor for demonstration purposes.

Beam engine

The engine is a  condensing steam engine with an overhead beam supported by an 'A'-frame.  It was built by the Butterley Company of Ripley, Derbyshire.  It has a single cylinder of  bore and  stroke.  The flywheel is  in diameter.  The engine ran at up to 30 rpm.

The engine is gear-coupled to a single scoop wheel in an adjacent compartment.  There are 40 paddles around the circumference of the  wheel, which could lift a maximum of  of water per minute through an  lift. The annual effort varied between  tons of water lifted, and .  Typically the engine was operated for around 180 days a year and an engine man was permanently retained, living on the site.

The boiler dates from 1895 and is a twin furnace Lancashire boiler, delivering . It consumed around  of coal per hour. Coal supplies were originally brought by barge, but after the land was successfully drained a railway line was laid from Spalding to Boston, and coals were delivered to a nearby goods facility.  They were then transported on a very short narrow gauge railway line in colliery-style tubs. The motive power for this appears to have been human. One of the tubs and a metre or so of line is displayed at the museum.

The engine is said to be the earliest 'A'-frame engine still in situ, the longest-working beam engine in the Fens, and the last in use.

See also
Pode Hole where the Welland and Deeping IDB have another museum.
Dogdyke Pumping Station
Stretham Old Engine

References

External links

 Welland and Deeping IDB: Pinchbeck Engine Museum- official site
 Info page about the museum
 Map of the location from the Listed Building database

Museums in Lincolnshire
Preserved beam engines
Agricultural museums in England 
Grade II listed buildings in Lincolnshire
Scheduled monuments in Lincolnshire
Steam museums in England
Infrastructure completed in 1833
Spalding, Lincolnshire
Mansfeld Mining Railway. The Mansfelder Bergwerksbahn is an  long  gauge heritage railway in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

History
Copper ore has been mined around Mansfeld since 1199. In 1885, a  long railway opened linking the Glückhilf mine at Welfesholz and the Kupferkammer smeltery at Hettstedt. At first it carried only goods, but in 1882 began carrying miners. In 1883, workshops were established at Klostermansfeld.

By 1930, the railway extended to  of track, serving 13 copper mines and two smelteries, and had interchanges with two station served by standard gauge trains. Transporter wagons were introduced in the 1930s, as well as air brakes on rolling stock. Traffic on the Mansfelder Bergwerksbahn reached its peak in 1955. The first diesel locomotives were introduced in 1961. In 1965, steam locomotive No. 10 became the first narrow gauge locomotive in Germany converted to heavy oil fuel.

Between 1964-69, the last copper mines at Eisleben and Hettstedt were closed. Carriage of passengers ceased in 1970. The smeltery in Eisleben closed in 1972, and the track between Eisleben and Helbra was lifted some years later. In 1989, the smeltery and power station at Helbra closed, and with it the railway.

Preservation

In 1990, the railway between Hettstedt and Klostermansfeld reopened as a heritage railway. By 1993, all other lines had been lifted. In 1994, the remaining line was transferred to the Mansfelder Bergwerksbahn e.V. It is maintained as part of Germany's industrial and mining heritage.

See also 
 Otavi Mining and Railway Company: a copper ore railway in German South West Africa
 White Knob Copper Electric Railway: a copper ore railway in the United States
 BHP Nevada Railroad: a copper ore railway in the United States

References

Heritage railways in Germany
Mining railways
Railway lines in Saxony-Anhalt
750 mm gauge railways in Germany
Mining in Germany
Copper industry
Super thermal power station. Super Thermal Power Stations or Super Power Station are a series of ambitious power projects planned by the Government of India. With India being a country of chronic power deficits, the Government of India has planned to provide 'power for all' by the end of the eleventh plan. The capacity of thermal power is 1000 MW and above. This would entail the creation of an additional capacity of at least 100,000 Megawatts by 2012. The Ultra Mega Power Projects, each with a capacity of 4000 megawatts or above, are being developed with the aim of bridging this gap.

The Super Thermal Power Stations were started by Government of India in the 1990s. The Ministry of Power, in association with the Central Electricity Authority and Power Finance Corporation Ltd., has launched an initiative for the development of coal-based Super Thermal Power Stations in India. These projects will be awarded to developers on the basis of competitive bidding.

Ramagundam Super Thermal power station, one of the biggest thermal power stations in India, is a coal based power station situated at ramagundam in Karimnagar District.

The station started power generation in 1983. The station generates about 2600 MW of power annually. The fuel for the power generation is taken from the South Godavari Coal Fields and water is taken from Pochampad Dam. The power generated from the power plant is shared by the south Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pondicherry.

Thermal Power Station
Following are some of the super thermal power station in India having capacity greater than 1000 MW:

See also
Energy policy of India

Coal-fired power stations in India
Proposed power stations in India
Israel Shipyards. Israel Shipyards is a large shipbuilding and repair facilities in the eastern Mediterranean. The company also operates a privately owned port in Israel.
The company's facilities are located at the Kishon Port (part of the Port of Haifa complex).

Facilities include a shiplift (syncrolift), capable lifting up to 3,000 tons, or  length overall ships, and a -long quay with  of water depth.

History

The company was founded in 1959 by the State of Israel to build both military and civilian ships, and to provide marine engineering upgrade, maintenance and repair services. In 1995, following years of underperformance and continued losses under state ownership, the company was privatized and sold to a group of local investors who, since 1998, have returned it to profitability.

Israel Shipyards is controlled by the Shlomo Group (TASE:SHLD), a holding group owned by businessman Shlomo Shmeltzer.

In May 2013 Israel Shipyard unveiled a new ‘Mini Corvette’ design, the Sa'ar S-72 class; to offer the Israeli Navy a new class, which fits between the Navy's existing s, and s. Through the years Israel Shipyards have built 40 Sa'ar-class missile boats; 20 were delivered to the Israeli Navy over the years. Last to be delivered were two upgraded Sa'ar 4.5 Hetz-subclass missile boats called INS Herev (2002) and INS Sufa (2003). With the new Mini Corvette the shipyard hoped to expand its offering to meet the evolving requirements, of the Israeli Navy, as well as of international customers overseas.

Products and services

Naval vessels

Missile boats
 Sa'ar 4-class missile boat
 Sa'ar 4.5-class missile boat
 Sa'ar 72-class corvette

Offshore patrol vessels (OPV)
 Sa'ar 62-class offshore patrol vessel
 OPV 45

Fast patrol crafts (FPC)

 Shaldag-class patrol boat
 Zivanit-class hydrofoil patrol boats

Merchant vessels

 Tugboats
 Bulk freighters

Ship repairs

The Shipyards has capability and experience to design and execute projects such as:
 Damage repair of merchant ships
 Jumboizing of container ships
 Conversion and modification of cargo vessels
 Repairs and maintenance of merchant and Naval vessels

Industrial structures

The company uses its facilities to build and deliver non-ship related commissions; recently completed projects include:

  Panamax and Post Panamax container cranes
  Harbor construction and cargo handling installations
  Coal unloading steel piers and cranes for the Orot Rabin power plant
  Industrial large pressure vessels
  Potash storage and loading installation
  Jet bridges for Ben Gurion International Airport's terminal 3

List of ships built by Israel Shipyards (partial list)

References

External links

 Israel Shipyards home page

Manufacturing companies of Israel
Defense companies of Israel
1959 establishments in Israel
Formerly government-owned companies of Israel
Shipyards of Asia
Andrew Scott (museum director). Andrew John Scott , born 1958, was Director of the National Railway Museum in York, part of the National Museum of Science and Industry (NMSI) in England from 1994. His previous museum appointments (since 1984) had been with the West Yorkshire Transport Museum in Bradford, the Bradford Industrial Museum, and the London Transport Museum 1988–94.  Before that he was an engineer in the public sector, having gained a BsC in Civil Engineering and an MSc in Mining Engineering, both at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Scott was made a Fellow of the Museums Association (FMA). Scott was appointed a CBE in the 2006 New Year Honours List for services to museums.

In September 2009, Andrew Scott took over as acting director of the National Museum of Science and IndustryI after the dismissal of Molly Jackson over a breach of NMSI conduct. On 15 October 2010 Andrew Scott retired.  The new postholder at the NMSI was Ian Blatchford. He was recruited from being  the Deputy Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. From October 2015 to 2019 Scott was the Chair of Trustees of York Civic Trust. From 2019 he became President of York Civic Trust.  He is also a Trustee of York Museums Trust.
Andrew Scott is also President of the North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group and Vice-Chair of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Directors of museums in the United Kingdom
People associated with the Science Museum, London
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Trustees of York Museums Trust
Praga B2. The Praga B2 was a low powered aero engine suitable for very light aircraft.  It dates from the mid-1930s.

Design
The Praga B2 was a dual ignition, air-cooled horizontal twin producing 40 horsepower (30 kW) aimed at lightweight aircraft.  It was a higher compression version (6.7:1 from the earlier 5.72:1) of the original and otherwise very similar Praga B, which provided 36 hp (27 kW).  Its cylinders were machined from alloy steel forgings and had aluminium alloy heads. The pistons were of aluminium alloy, with three compression rings and one scraper ring. The connecting rods were of nitrided steel, with divided big ends and bronze bushes at the little ends. The one piece crankshaft was also formed from nitrided steel and had two main roller bearings and a single ball thrust bearing. The single piece crankcase was cast from an aluminium alloy.

135 units in all, including B and B2 variants were built. Jowett Cars Ltd. of Idle, Bradford in the UK obtained a licence in 1936 to build the Praga B engine, for installation into the licence built Hillson Praga. Immediately after the end of World War II the Praga B2 was on display at the 1946 Paris Air Show.

Applications (B & B2)
Alaparma A.M.10 Tucano
AVEX Yakstas Racer

de Schelde Scheldemeeuw
de Schelde Scheldemusch
Hillson Pennine
Mignet Flying Flea
Praga E.114/Hillson Praga

Specifications (B2)

See also

References

Further reading

Boxer engines
1930s aircraft piston engines