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SNCASO SO.7010 Pégase. The SNCASO SO.7010 Pégase was a six-passenger light transport aircraft developed in France immediately after World War II. It was powered by a pair of tandem-coupled V-8 engines but this power plant proved to be too troublesome for development to proceed.

Design and development
The Pégase was a low wing cantilever monoplane, notable for its unusual engine and for its fuselage construction.
Externally it appeared to be a conventional single engine aircraft with a three blade propeller but its Mathis G16 engine was the result of combining two  Mathis G8 V-8s onto a single crankcase. The two units were connected to the propeller shaft with a free-wheel coupling in the reduction gearing so that if one failed, the other could continue to run. Thus the Pégase had only single engine drag with the extra safety provided by two engines but none of the usual asymmetry issues associated with engine failure in a twin.

Contemporary reporters were impressed with the "unit cabin". In the cabin region, fuselage stresses were carried by a keel, allowing the cabin sides and roof to be light and unstressed whilst maintaining the fuselage contours and to be generously glazed. The Pégase had a slightly humped roofline, a conventional tail with a tall, straight tapered, round tipped fin and rudder and had a tricycle undercarriage.

The Pégase was on display at the Paris Salon of November 1946, but it did not fly until 27 February 1948. Tests revealed problems with the new, underdeveloped engine and only fifteen flights were made before the Pégase programme was effectively abandoned, though from the April 1949 Salon Flight reported rather that development had been held up due to a shortage of engines.

Specifications

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Pegase
1940s French civil aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Twin-engined single-prop tractor aircraft
Twin-engined piston aircraft
Aircraft with fixed tricycle landing gear
Charles Steel. Brigadier Charles Deane Steel  (29 May 1901 − 7 February 1993) was a British Army officer and civil servant.

Military career
Charles Steel was the son of Dr Gerard Steel, JP (1865-1937) and was educated at Bedford School between 1912 and 1919. He attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich between 1919 and 1921, at which he was awarded the Prize Cadetship (1919) and the Armstrong Memorial Prize (1921). He was commissioned into the Royal Engineers on 13 July 1921.

Between 1924 and 1919 he served in India with the Bengal Sappers and Miners. He was promoted to the rank of captain on 13 July 1932 and attended the Staff College, Camberley (1936-7), being promoted to the rank of major on 1 August 1938.

During the Second World War he served in East Africa and Abyssinia between 1941 and 1942. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1941 New Year Honours. Steel was deployed to the Western Desert where he was Mentioned in Dispatches on 24 June 1943. He was captured later that year, but subsequently escaped to Switzerland. He was Mentioned in Dispatches for a second time for "services in the field" on 8 November 1945.

Between 1945 and 1949 Steel was Deputy Head of the British Military Mission to Greece and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1947. Between 1952 and 1964 he worked as Head of the Conference and Supply Department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and he was invested as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1957. He was made an honorary brigadier on 15 February 1952 and retired from the Regular Army Reserve of Officers in 1961. Steel was Head of the Accommodation Department in Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service between 1965 and 1967.

On 9 April 1932 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Lawrence Chenevix-Trench and Winifred Ross Tootal, and together they had two sons.

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British Army Officers 1939−1945

1901 births
1993 deaths
British Army personnel of World War II
British civil servants
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Graduates of the Staff College, Camberley
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
People educated at Bedford School
Royal Engineers officers
British Army brigadiers
British World War II prisoners of war
Military personnel from Herefordshire
People from Leominster
6060 aluminium alloy. 6060 aluminium alloy is an alloy in the wrought aluminium-magnesium-silicon family (6000 or 6xxx series). It is much more closely related to the alloy 6063 than to 6061. The main difference between 6060 and 6063 is that 6063 has a slightly higher magnesium content. It can be formed by extrusion, forging or rolling, but as a wrought alloy it is not used in casting. It cannot be work hardened, but is commonly heat treated to produce tempers with a higher strength but lower ductility.

Alternate names and designations include AlMgSi, 3.3206, and A96060. The alloy and its various tempers are covered by the following standards:

 ASTM B 221: Standard Specification for Aluminum and Aluminum-Alloy Extruded Bars, Rods, Wire, Profiles, and Tubes
 EN 573-3: Aluminium and aluminium alloys. Chemical composition and form of wrought products. Chemical composition and form of products
 EN 754-2: Aluminium and aluminium alloys. Cold drawn rod/bar and tube. Mechanical properties
 EN 755-2: Aluminium and aluminium alloys. Extruded rod/bar, tube and profiles. Mechanical properties
 ISO 6361: Wrought Aluminium and Aluminium Alloy Sheets, Strips and Plates

Chemical composition

The alloy composition of 6060 aluminium is:

 Aluminium: 97.9 to 99.3%
 Chromium: 0.05% max
 Copper: 0.1% max
 Iron: 0.1 to 0.3%
 Magnesium: 0.35 to 0.5%
 Manganese: 0.10%
 Silicon: 0.3 to 0.6%
 Titanium: 0.1% max
 Zinc: 0.15% max
 Residuals: 0.15% max

Properties

Typical material properties for 6060 aluminum alloy include:

 Density: 2.710 g/cm3, or 169 lb/ft3.
 Young's modulus: 70 GPa, or 10 Msi, or 303 EMEC 
 Ultimate tensile strength: 140 to 230 MPa, or 20 to 33 ksi.
 Yield strength: 70 to 180 MPa, or 10 to 26 ksi.
 Thermal Expansion: 23.4 μm/m-K.
 Solidus: 610 °C or 1130 °F.

References

Aluminum alloy table 

Aluminium alloys
Aluminium–magnesium–silicon alloys
Team Tango. Team Tango is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Williston, Florida and owned by Revolution Aviation Inc. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of light aircraft in the form of kits for amateur construction.

The company's first offering was the two-seats in side-by-side configuration Tango 2, a composite aircraft with a cruise speed of . The company also offers a four-seater, the Team Tango Foxtrot, which has a cruise speed of .

Aircraft

References

External links

Aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Homebuilt aircraft
Williston, Florida
Companies based in Florida
Bayonne Energy Center. Bayonne Energy Center is a power plant on Constable Hook in Bayonne, New Jersey originally built as a joint venture between Hess Corporation and ArcLight Capital Partners. It is operated by EthosEnergy.

The 644-megawatt natural-gas-fired plant came on line in 2012. It connects to a 6.5-mile, 345-kilovolt power line under the Upper New York Bay connecting with a Consolidated Edison substation in Gowanus in Brooklyn, New York which is the longest XLPE cable in the world.

The submarine cable portion of the project is one of the most deeply buried submarine cables at 15 feet below New Jersey-New York Harbor bottom. On behalf of the Project, regulator permit applications were prepared and submitted to the New York State Department of Public Service (Article VII), the US Army Corps of Engineers New York District (Sections 10/404), the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, the New York Department of State, and the New York Office of General Services.

In 2014, Hess relinquished it interest in the plant to ArcLight. which later sold it to Macquarie Infrastructure Company.  The current owner, a Morgan Stanley investment fund, purchased the plant in 2018.

In 2018, a 120-megawatt expansion (Bayonne Energy Center II) came online. Bayonne Energy Center II was one of the three natural gas-fired plants in the New York metropolitan area that came online to support electricity needs before the decommission of the last nuclear reactor of the Indian Point Energy Center in 2021. The other two plants were Cricket Valley Energy Center (1,100 MW) and CPV Valley Energy Center (678 MW).

See also
NYISO
Hudson Project, cable connecting Bergen Generating Station to Manhattan
Neptune Cable 
Hudson Generating Station
Kearny Generating Station
Newark Energy Center
List of power stations in New Jersey

References

External links
MasterElectricTransmissionPlanforNYC 2009
http://www.nyiso.com/public/webdocs/markets_operations/documents/Legal_and_Regulatory/FERC_Filings/2013/October/NYISO_BEC_ARIA_complete.pdf

Natural gas-fired power stations in New Jersey
Bayonne, New Jersey
Power stations in Hudson County, New Jersey
Infrastructure in New York City
Electric power transmission systems in New Jersey
Electric power transmission systems in the United States
2012 establishments in New Jersey
Energy infrastructure completed in 2012
Infrastructure in New York (state)
Taiwan Dancer. Taiwan Dancer Technology Co., Ltd. was a Taiwanese aircraft manufacturer based in Nangang Village, Dayuan District, Taoyuan City. The company president was Chin Lien Wei. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft in the form of kits for amateur construction.

The first aircraft design, the TD-1 was started in 1996 and was completed in 1999. The company was founded in 2002 and the TD-2 was completed the same year. The third design, the Taiwan Dancer TD-3, was completed in 2007 and won first prize for an aircraft design, awarded by the Taiwanese Ministry of Economic Affairs.

Aircraft

References

External links
 - former location

 
Aerospace companies of Taiwan
Companies based in Taoyuan City
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2002
Taiwanese brands
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Duralex. Duralex is a French tempered glass tableware and kitchenware manufacturer located in La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin in Loiret, France. Using a technique developed in the 1930s by Saint-Gobain, moulded glass is heated to 600 degrees Celsius then cooled very quickly, giving it an impact resistance that is twice superior to normal glass.

The Picardie tumbler and the Gigogne glass are two of the company's best-known products. The "Gigogne" glass is in the permanent collection of the  Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

The brand name is derived from the Latin motto dura lex, sed lex ("the law is harsh, but it is the law").

History

Acquisition 
In January 2021, Duralex was acquired by International Cookware group which is the producer (outside the USA) of the rival PYREX brand, for 3.5 million euros ($4.2m).  International Cookware promises to maintain the majority of jobs, create a turnaround plan through investment of several tens of millions of euros (including modernization of the antiquated Orléans plant) and create commercial synergies with Pyrex, especially in sales and purchasing. The company's expertise in highly resistant tempered glass was of interest to the American brand, even though its production facilities were outdated. Moreover, the company's vintage image, with its two best-sellers, the Gigogne and the Picardie, more than half a century after their creation, is also an obstacle to change, as Duralex's reputation does not extend beyond these two models: the transformation towards a more modern image is one of the major Planner projects.

In 2022, the International Cookware group changed its name to La Maison française du verre.

Energy crisis 
In November 2022, following the rise in energy prices, the company was forced to cease operations and put its furnaces on standby. The 250 employees were placed on short-time working.

Financial troubles and transition to cooperative 

The furnaces were restarted on April 17, 2023, five months later. During this period, the company benefited from 15 million euros in state aid to cope with the crisis.

Duralex was placed into receivership in April 2024 for the fourth time in 20 years, which created a six month observation period during which a buyer for the company will be sought. In July, the Commercial Court of Orléans accepted a proposal supported by 60% of employees to transition the company to cooperative ownership, with all jobs to be retained.

Awards 
The magazine This Old House called Duralex's OvenChef glass baking dishes one of the best new home products of 2014, citing the dishes' ability to withstand wide temperature swings without shattering.

References

External links 
 
 

Tableware
Kitchenware brands
Glass trademarks and brands
Glassmaking companies of France
Privately held companies of France
Manufacturing companies established in 1945
French companies established in 1945
French brands
P. M. de Respour. P. M. de Respour, a Flemish metallurgist and alchemist, was the first person to extract metallic zinc from zinc oxide, which he did in 1668.

Original works 
 De Respour, P. M.: Rare Experiences svr l'esprit mineral..' Paris, France (1498)

References

Dutch alchemists
Flemish metallurgists
17th-century alchemists
Phillips catalyst. The Phillips catalyst, or the Phillips supported chromium catalyst, is the catalyst used to produce approximately half of the world's polyethylene.  A heterogeneous catalyst, it consists of a chromium oxide supported on silica gel. Polyethylene, the most-produced synthetic polymer, is produced industrially by the polymerization of ethylene:
n C2H4    →  (C2H4)n
Although exergonic (i.e., thermodynamically favorable), the reaction requires catalysts.  Three main catalysts are employed commercially: the Phillips catalyst, Ziegler–Natta catalysts (based on titanium trichloride), and, for specialty polymers, metallocene-based catalysts.

Preparation and mechanism of action
The Phillips catalyst is prepared by impregnating high surface area silica gel with chromium trioxide or related chromium compounds.  The solid precatalyst is then calcined in air to give the active catalyst.  Only a fraction of the chromium is catalytically active, a fact that interferes with elucidation of the catalytic mechanism.  The active catalyst is often depicted as a chromate ester bound to the silica surface.  The mechanism for the polymerization process is the subject of much research, the central question being the structure of the active species, which is assumed to be an organochromium compound. Robert L. Banks and J. Paul Hogan, both at Phillips Petroleum, filed the first patents on the Phillips catalyst in 1953.  Four years later, the process was commercialized.

References

Industrial processes
Polymer chemistry
Catalysts
Coordination complexes
Chromium(VI) compounds
Chromium–oxygen compounds
Léger Aviation. SARL Léger Aviation was a French aircraft manufacturer based in Archiac. When it was in operation the company specialized in the design and manufacture of wooden ultralight aircraft in the form of plans for amateur construction. The company also supplied raw material for construction.

The company was a Société à responsabilité limitée.

Founded by father and son team Fabien and Jean Claude Léger the company produced plans and materials  for two designs, the open cockpit Leger Pataplume 1 and the enclosed cockpit Leger Pataplume 2. Both aircraft emphasized simplicity and ease of construction and were marketed with the French slogan "simplicite, economie, amusement".

By 2013 the company website had been removed and the plans were apparently no longer available.

Aircraft

References

External links

Former location of official website
Website archives on Archive.org

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of France
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Avions Jean-Pierre Marie. Avions Jean-Pierre Marie (), often just referred to as JPM, is a French aircraft manufacturer based in Le Mesnil-Esnard and founded by Jean-Pierre Marie. The company specializes in the design of light aircraft in the form of plans for amateur construction.

The designs focus on simple construction using rectangular wings and the employment of conventional materials such as wood and fabric that can be built without special knowledge or special tools. The early designs were originally intended to be equipped with the Volkswagen air-cooled engine to reduce completion cost.

The company offers a wide range of wood and fabric construction light and ultralight aircraft, including the two-seat JPM 01 Médoc first completed in 1977, the three-seat JPM 02 Anjou, the two-seat JPM 03 Loiret ultralight, the two seat JPM 03-7 Calva, the single-seat JPM 04 Castor ultralight, the 2007 two seats in tandem JPM 05 Trucanou, the JPM 05 Layon tandem ultralight. Future projects under development include  the JPM 06 two-seat ultralight and JPM 07 three-seater.

Aircraft

References

External links

Aircraft manufacturers of France
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Companies based in Normandy
OptiRTC. OptiRTC is an American technology company that has developed a software as a service platform for civil infrastructure. The OptiRTC platform is a cloud-native platform that integrates sensors, forecasts, and environmental contexts to actively control stormwater infrastructure. The OptiRTC platform is built on Microsoft Azure and uses internet of things technology to predicatively manage distributed water systems.

History
In June 2011, the OptiRTC team partnered with ioBridge to develop smart city tech based on ioBridge's hardware solution and OptiRTC's platform.

In November 2013, the OptiRTC team was assigned a patent for "Combined water storage and detention system and method of precipitation harvesting and management" that was co-invented by Marcus Quigley.

In November 2014, the New York Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) selected Opti technology as the winner of the first Smart City Expo World Congress.

In December 2014, OptiRTC was formally incorporated as an independent company through a spin-out from Geosyntec Consultants.

In January 2015, the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) published a research paper on High Performance Green Infrastructure, which focused primarily on distributed real-time control of stormwater infrastructure.

In January 2016, Opti began working with Particle to provide the communications layer for Opti's products.

In October 2018, Opti was commissioner by Albany’s Department of Water and Water Supply to install its underground smart water management system in Washington Park Lake as well as one of Albany’s constructed wetlands.

References

Environmental technology
Stormwater management
Internet of things
American companies established in 2014
Green Sky Adventures. Green Sky Adventures, Inc. is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Hawthorne, Florida. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of light aircraft in the form of plans and kits for amateur construction. It was established in 1984.

The company provides plans for the Green Sky Zippy Sport, a single seat strut-braced high wing aircraft, and kits for the Green Sky Adventures Micro Mong biplane design. The company also distributes the HKS 700E and the Rotax line of two-stroke and four-stroke aircraft engines, GSC Systems propellers and AeroLux Propellers.

Aircraft

References

External links

Aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Manufacturing companies established in 1984
1984 establishments in Florida
Timex Computer 3256. The TC 3256 or Timex Computer 3256 was a 1987 computer created by Timex of Portugal, a branch of Timex Corporation.

It was a third generation Sinclair ZX Spectrum compatible computer, with expanded capabilities and new TEC - Timex Extended Commands BASIC commands supporting the AY-3-8912 sound chip, RS-232 network and the 512x192 pixel high resolution graphic mode.

Besides the legacy Sinclair BASIC, the ROM included a word processor (Timeword),  Timex Extended Basic (with support for the Tenet network, floppy disks and RAM drive) and a CP/M terminal emulator.
RAM was expanded to 256kb.

At least one prototype was built, but the machine never reached the market due to Timex of Portugal shutting  down its production line before its release.

Technical specifications
CPU
Zilog Z80A 
ROM
  64K
16K Sinclair BASIC
16K Timeword text processor
16K Timex Extended Basic  (Tenet, disk, RAM drive)
16K CP/M terminal emulator
RAM
 256K
 208K RAM drive
48K base memory
Display 
 Timex SCLD chip instead of the Spectrum's ULA, offering additional screen modes:
 Text: 32×24 or 64x32 characters (8×8 pixels, rendered in graphics mode)
 Graphics: 256×192 pixels, 15 colours (two simultaneous colours - "attributes" - per 8×8 pixels, causing attribute clash)
 Extended Color: 256×192 pixels, 15 colors with colour resolution of 32×192 (two simultaneous colours - "attributes" -  per 1×8 pixels)
 Dual Screen: (two 256×192 pixels screens can be placed in memory)
 A two color 512×192 mode
Sound
 Beeper (1 channel, 10 octaves and 10+ semitones via internal speaker)
 AY-3-8912

I/O
RS-232
Cartridge port
Tape audio in/out for external cassette tape storage
RF television out
Composite video monitor out
RGB monitor out
Kempston Joystick input
Storage
External cassette tape recorder
Disk Drive: TOS / CP/M

Keyboard
69 keys with cursors, numpad and function keys

See also 
Timex Sinclair
Timex Sinclair 2068

References

External links 
 Timex Computer World

ZX Spectrum clones
Home computers
Z80-based home computers
Portuguese inventions
Edinburgh Air Charter Flight 3W. Edinburgh Air Charter Flight 3W, call sign "Saltire 3 Whisky", was a charter flight from Glasgow to Aberdeen. A Cessna 404 Titan, G-ILGW, was used for this flight. The flight had been chartered by Airtours International Airways to transport two pilots and seven flight attendants. Upon arrival in Aberdeen, the Airtours crewmembers were scheduled to operate a Boeing 757 on a charter flight to Palma de Mallorca.

Shortly after takeoff, the left engine failed and the pilot-in-command feathered the right engine. Instead of attempting a crash landing, the pilot attempted to return to Glasgow Airport without engine power and lost control while trying to make a right turn. The aircraft crashed and caught fire approximately one nautical mile from the airport. The two Edinburgh Air Charter pilots, the Airtours First Officer, and five Airtours flight attendants died in the crash. The Airtours captain and two flight attendants survived.

The aircraft was slightly overweight for the conditions. A report recommended engine inspections, more crash-worthy seats, and consideration to fitting aircraft like this with CVRs. As a result of this accident an airworthiness directive was issued by the British Civil Aviation Authority in June 2000, requiring inspections of the starter adapters and crankshaft gears on Continental GTSIO-520 series engines.

See also
Other cases where pilots shut down the wrong engine when dealing with engine failure:
British Midland Flight 092
TransAsia Airways Flight 235
Airlink Flight 8911

References

Aviation accidents and incidents in 1999
Aviation accidents and incidents in Scotland
1999 in Scotland
Airliner accidents and incidents caused by engine failure
September 1999 in the United Kingdom