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Swiss military aircraft serials. In Switzerland, to identify individual aircraft, all military aircraft are allocated and display a serial number.

History

Pre Air Force Years to 1915
From 1900 to 1915 the Swiss Military had artillery observation balloons.
The balloons were usually referred to by a name, for example Vagabond, Bise, Föhn, etc. The numbering of the balloon corps was autonomous and had nothing to do with the numbers of Fliegerabteilung (Air Force). The Balloons had the serials from 1 to 20.

The Swiss Air Force was founded in 1914.  The first Aircraft started with the serials 21, 22, 23, ..  In 1915 the Balloons get the prefix "K".
Some requisitioned Aircraft  don't get any serial number.

1915 to 1936 
The serial numbers were all without a prefix and reached from 21 to 873.

1936 to today

Aircraft serial numbering
The Swiss Air Force military aircraft are identified by a role prefix and number, the prefix or code identifies the role and the serial numbers the type or variant, the system was introduced in 1936.

Letter code
The letter or letters give the role of the aircraft.

This is followed by a number having from two to four digits.

Four-digit numbers 
The first digit identifies the aircraft type. The next three are for the sub-type and the individual aircraft, with the first and sometimes second for the subtype; and the third and sometimes fourth for the individual aircraft, In the following examples, "x" identifies the individual aircraft:
Mirage IIIBS = J-200x
Mirage IIIDS = J-201x
Mirage IIIRS = R-21xx
Mirage IIIC = J-22xx
Mirage IIIS = J-23xx
F-5E = J-30xx (serials previously used for the FFA P-16)
F-5F = J-32xx

Three-digit numbers 
Most aircraft have three numbers. These follow a broadly similar pattern to the four-digit numbers, although there are exceptions.

Transport aircraft have a first digit of 3 for helicopters and 7 for fixed wing aircraft.

Two-digit numbers 
Target drones have only two numbers.

Using of civil serial by  Military Aviation 

Until 2005 it was possible that the Swiss Air Force used for its VIP aircraft  a military aircraft serial T-XXX  or a civil serial HB-XXX. Since 2005 all Swiss Air Force VIP aircraft have only military aircraft serials.  For e.g. Cessna 560XL  former HB-VAA  now T-784.

Armasuisse 
Armasuisse belongs, like the Air Force, to the Defense Department.  Armasuisse Operates tree aircraft, two of them have a civil aircraft serials ( Pilatus PC-6  HB-FCF   and Pilatus PC-12 HB-FOG) and one with a military aircraft serial  (Diamond DA42 R-711).

See also 
List of aircraft of the Swiss Air Force
United Kingdom military aircraft serials
Portuguese military aircraft serials
Belgian aircraft registration and serials

References

    List of Swiss military aircraft serials

Aircraft markings
Military aircraft designation systems
Serial numbers
Swiss Air Force
Alfred Barton Brady. Alfred Barton Brady (1856-1932) was an engineer and architect in Queensland, Australia. He was one of Queensland's most important early engineers and was particularly known for his bridge design. He was the Queensland Colonial Architect and many of his buildings and structures are now heritage-listed.

Early life
Alfred Barton Brady was born on 1 February 1856 in Manchester, England. He was educated in private schools.

Architecture career
On 15 January 1872 at age 15, Brady commenced his training as a pupil of Charles William Green, an architect and civil engineer of Manchester and Liverpool. As Green was the official architect for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Brady gained experience working with their engineering and architecture department. From March 1879 to October 1884, Brady worked in London and other parts of England gaining experience with water supply, sewerage and drainage.

Brady immigrated to Brisbane in December 1884 and was employed by the Queensland Public Service in January 1885 and served the state in various departments for 37 years. From 1885, he worked initially for the Queensland Railway Department from 1885 and then from 1889 with the Public Works Department. He was appointed Engineer for Bridges in 1889 and then as the Queensland Colonial Architect in 1892. He was appointed Under-Secretary for the Public Works in 1901. Although Brady designed many important and handsome public buildings, his forte was bridge design and he designed a number of notable bridges.

Later life 
Brady retired at the end of January 1922, being forced to do so by an age restriction within the Queensland Public Service (his 66th birthday was 1 February 1922).

Brady died on 31 May 1932 in Sydney after a long illness.

Significant works
 1893: Lamington Bridge, Maryborough
 1896: Victoria Bridge, Brisbane (now demolished apart from the Victoria Bridge Abutment)
 1899: Kennedy Bridge, Bundaberg
 1900: Burnett Bridge, Bundaberg

References

Attribution 

Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register
Architects from Brisbane
1856 births
1932 deaths
Architects from Manchester
British emigrants to the Colony of Queensland
KF Defence Programs. KF Defence Programs, a division of KF Aerospace, operates the Contracted Flying Training and Support (CFTS) Training Centre located at Portage la Prairie/Southport Airport in Southport, Manitoba, Canada.  KF Aerospace leads a joint partnership that includes Canadian Helicopters, Bluedrop Performance Learning, and Canadian Base Operators. The main building is named The Hilly Brown Building after Wing Commander Mark Henry Brown who was the first Canadian flying ace of the Second World War.

The 22-year contract was announced on 27 October 2005 by the Minister of National Defence to provide flying training support at 3 Canadian Forces Flying Training School.

Through the partnership, it provides aircraft and training services to the Royal Canadian Air Force for training pilots and air navigators.

Training services 

Phase I - Primary Flying Training

The contractor provides the aircraft, flying instructors, facilities, accommodations and courseware for the 1st phase of pilot training in Canada. This training includes both classroom instruction along with basic flight training on the Grob G120A.

Phase II (Grob) - Basic Flying Training

The contractor provides the aircraft, flying instructors, facilities, accommodations and courseware. Basic Flight training provided on the Grob G120A. This course is planned as an alternative to Basic Flying Training at CFB Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

Phase III - Advanced Flying Training Multi-Engine

The contractor provides the aircraft, facilities, accommodations and courseware. The RCAF provides the instructor pilots for training students on the King Air C90B.

Phase III - Advanced Flying Training Helicopter

The contractor provides the aircraft, facilities, accommodations and courseware. The RCAF provides the instructor pilots for training students on the B412CF Outlaw and Bell B206B-3 Jet Ranger.

Lead-in Navigator Training

The contractor provides the aircraft (Grob G120A), facilities, accommodations, flight instructors and courseware used to initiate air navigators in their flying training.

Aircraft 

The following 42 aircraft are owned and maintained by KF Defence Programs as of 16 December 2016:

References

External links 

 KF Defence Programs

Canadian military aviation
Victor Chavez (businessman). Victor Manuel Chavez  (born 19 January 1963) is the Chief Executive of Thales UK, a main electronics and defence company in the UK. Thales UK employs around 7,500 people.

Early life
Born in Barrow-in-Furness, Chavez was educated at Barrow Grammar School for Boys, after which he gained a degree in physics from the University of York in 1984. From the University of Surrey he gained an MSc in Satellite Engineering & Telecommunications in 1993.

Career

Thales
He joined the company in 1999.
He became Chief Executive of Thales UK (Thales Holdings UK) on 1 January 2011. He had been Deputy Chief Executive for three years previously. Thales UK is involved in sonar, radar, and avionics. It makes most of the UK's aircraft simulators in Crawley in West Sussex. Thales Air Defence in Belfast makes helicopter-launched missiles. Thales has 67,000 employees in 56 countries.

He is a board member of techUK (trade association) and EngineeringUK (previously the Engineering and Technology Board). He is a co-chairman of the Information Economy Council.

Personal life
He was appointed a CBE in the 2015 New Year Honours. He grew up in Barrow-in-Furness, and now lives in Hampshire. He married in September 1992 in Cumbria, and has two daughters, born June 1994 and May 1997.

See also
 Ian King, Chief Executive of BAE Systems since September 2008
 UK cyber security community
 Centre national de la recherche scientifique

References

External links
 Thales UK Board of Directors
 UK skills presentation in April 2015

1963 births
British aerospace businesspeople
Alumni of the University of Surrey
Alumni of the University of York
British businesspeople in the armaments industry
Businesspeople in aviation
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
People from Hart District
Thales Group people
Living people
People from Barrow-in-Furness
People educated at Barrow-in-Furness Grammar School for Boys
Asso Aerei. Asso Aerei Srl () is an Italian designer of light and ultralight aircraft founded by Giuseppe (Bepi) Vidor. Vidor (died 23 September 2013, aged 72) was a carpenter who studied engineering at night school, and all his aircraft are wooden designs, most with tricycle landing gear. The aircraft are homebuilt from plans or from very basic kits. The name Vidor Asso is also used.

Aircraft
Asso I
Side-by-side 2-seat taildragger built by Vidor based on the Piel Super Emeraude – one built 1980. It is also known as RD 95, after Vidor's friend and advisor, Robert Denize, who had collaborated with Claude Piel. Another, built by Vidor, first flew in 1984.
Asso II
Four seater, also known as RD 30V, never flown because of the introduction of an Italian luxury tax based on aircraft weight.
Asso III
Ultralight to avoid the luxury tax, based on the Asso I, but much lighter. Many kits sold.

Asso IV Whisky
2-seat tandem taildragger with fixed or retractable maingear. (Also known as Aerostar?)

Asso V Champion
2-seat side-by-side, fixed or retractable gear (1995). Built by Alpi Aviation with composite skin panels as the Pioneer 300.

Asso V Jolly
Lower-power version of the V Champion.
Asso V X-Ray
Side-by-side version of the IX Warrior.
Asso VI Junior
 A simplified III, fixed gear, plus a glider version with greater wingspan.
Asso VI Evolution
Development of the Junior, with reduced wingspan, flaps and sliding canopy.
Asso VII
Asso VIII Centauro
Fiat G.55 scale replica based on the IV Whisky.
Asso IX Warrior
2-seat tandem RG aerobatic tourer.

Asso X Jewel
Laminar flow wing tandem 2-seater development of the V Champion. Developed into the all-composite Millennium Master (2006), which evolved into the Blackshape Prime (2007) and the Pelegrin Tarragon.
Asso XI Sprint
Production version of the VI Junior with steel tube fuselage (2003).
Asso XIV Spitfire
Supermarine Spitfire scale replica based on the IV Whisky.
Asso XV Sword
2-seat side-by-side RG tourer.

Uncompleted projects
Asso XVI
Tandem 2-seater with pusher engine at the rear.
Asso XVIB
Twin-Wankel engines driving a single propeller.
Asso XVII
Side-by-side version of the X Jewel.
Asso XVIIB
Side-by-side version of the X Jewel.

References

Vidor aircraft
Aircraft manufacturers of Italy
Homebuilt aircraft
Light-sport aircraft
1980s Italian ultralight aircraft
1990s Italian ultralight aircraft
2000s Italian ultralight aircraft
Caproni Ca.193. The Caproni Ca.193 was an Italian liaison and air-taxi aircraft that was offered to the Italian Air Force as an instrument flight trainer and to the Navy for liaison. Design work started in 1945 and only the prototype was built. It was the last aircraft the Caproni company designed and built in Milan.

Design and development
The aircraft is of all-metal construction, with cantilever mid-wings with detachable tips. The leading edges are swept-back, and the stressed-skin wings have flaps inboard of the ailerons. The fuselage is a monocoque structure, with a hinged nose to allow loading of a stretcher or other awkward loads. Seating can be arranged for one pilot and five passengers, or two pilots and three passengers. There is a door on both sides of the cabin, and there is a baggage compartment behind the rear seats. The tailplane has twin fins at the ends of the dihedral stabiliser. The elevators and rudders are fabric-covered. The tricycle landing gear is hydraulically retractable. The two engines are mounted towards the rear of the wing, driving 2-bladed fixed-pitch pusher propellers. Originally planned to use Blackburn Cirrus Major III engines, it was fitted with Walter Minor 6-III engines.

Operational history
The first flight of the prototype, registered I-POLO in reference to the designers, was flown by Tullio De Prato at Linate Airport, Milan, on 13 May 1949. The aircraft was then briefly tested by the military in Rome, but was returned to the manufacturer and no orders were forthcoming. Several variants were then considered, including the use of turboprop engines, a radar-equipped naval patrol version, and a 'colonial' model, but none was implemented.

The aircraft was purchased by the Air Force as MM56701 in March 1950, and in July 1952 it was sold for civilian use, ending up with the Trento Aero Club at Gardolo Airport, where it was withdrawn from use in 1960. It is now on display, after refurbishment in 1991, at the Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics in Trento, Italy.

Specifications

References

Bibliography

  

Ca.193
Mid-wing aircraft
Twin-engined pusher aircraft
1940s Italian civil utility aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1949
Paramotor Performance M3. The Paramotor Performance M3 is a family of Swedish paramotors that was designed and produced by Paramotor Performance of Bandhagen for powered paragliding. The aircraft are supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development
The M3 series was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules as well as European regulations. They all feature a paraglider-style wing, single-place accommodation and a single  Solo 210 engine in pusher configuration with a 2.4:1 ratio reduction drive and a  diameter four-bladed composite propeller. The fuel tank capacity is . The aircraft is built from a combination of aluminium and steel and the workmanship has been noted as of high quality by reviews. All models have low hang points.

As is the case with all paramotors, take-off and landing is accomplished by foot. Inflight steering is accomplished via handles that actuate the canopy brakes, creating roll and yaw.

Variants
M3T
Base model with an empty weight of .
M3X
Lightened model for mountain flying, with an empty weight of .

Specifications (M3T)

References

External links

M3
1990s Swedish ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Paramotors
Nanon. Nanon may refer to:

 Nanon, Ninon et Maintenon, by Emmanuel Théaulon and Armand d'Artois
 Nanon, an 1877 opera by Genee, based on Théaulon and d'Artois
 Nanon (1924 film), a German silent film
 Nanon (1938 film), a German remake film
 Nanon, an 1872 novel by George Sand
 Nanobacterium, the alleged micro-organism
 559 Nanon, a main-belt asteroid
 Korapat Kirdpan, Thai actor nicknamed Nanon
Paramotor Performance. Paramotor Performance AB is a Swedish aircraft manufacturer based in Bandhagen, near Stockholm. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of paramotors in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules and the European microlight category.

The company was founded before 1998 and remained in business through 2021, although its website had been removed by early 2022 and the company may no longer exist.

Paramotor Performance AB is an Aktiebolag, a Swedish limited company.

The company has produced a number of paramotor designs noted for the quality of their metalwork, their attention to detail and their multi-bladed, composite, propeller designs.

Aircraft

References

External links

Aircraft manufacturers of Sweden
Ultralight aircraft
Paramotors
SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award. The ACM SIGOPS (Special Interest Group on Operating Systems) Mark Weiser Award is awarded to an individual who has shown creativity and innovation in operating system research. The recipients began their career no earlier than 20 years prior to nomination. The special-interest-group-level award was created in 2001 and is named after Mark Weiser, the father of ubiquitous computing.

The winners of this award have been:
 2024: George Candea, EPFL
 2023: Matei Zaharia, UC Berkeley
 2022: David Andersen, Carnegie Mellon University
 2021: Michael J. Freedman, Princeton University
 2020: Jason Flinn, University of Michigan and Facebook
 2019: Ion Stoica, UC Berkeley
 2018: Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 2017: Nickolai Zeldovich, MIT
 2016: Antony Rowstron, Microsoft Research (Cambridge)
 2015: Yuanyuan Zhou, UCSD
 2014: Eddie Kohler, Harvard University
 2013: Stefan Savage, UCSD
 2012: Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, Google
 2011: Miguel Castro, Microsoft Research
 2010: Robert Tappan Morris, MIT
 2009: Eric Brewer, UC Berkeley/Google
 2008: Peter Druschel, MPI
 2007: Peter M. Chen, University of Michigan
 2006: Dawson Engler, Stanford University
 2005: Thomas E. Anderson, University of Washington
 2004: Brian N. Bershad, University of Washington and Google
 2003: Mike Burrows, Google
 2002: Mendel Rosenblum, Stanford University
 2001: Frans Kaashoek, MIT

See also
 List of computer science awards
 List of prizes named after people

References

American science and technology awards
Computer science awards
Awards established in 2001
Balloki Power Plant. The Balloki Power Plant is a 1,223 MW natural gas power plant completed in mid 2018 in Pattoki, in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Groundbreaking was commenced on November 11, 2015, and construction was scheduled for completion by December 2017. The project utilizes regasified liquefied natural gas (RLNG) for fuel, with diesel as an alternate backup. A 40 kilometer long transmission line with a capacity of 500 kilovolts was also constructed between the new plant and a grid station in southern Lahore.

Bidding was open to international firms for the 82 billion rupee project. China's Harbin Electric Company was announced as the lowest evaluated bidder for the project on October 2, 2015, having offered a levelized electricity cost of 7.973 cents per unit, outbidding the Turkish conglomerate Enka İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş. and GE Consortium which both stood in second with 8.185 cents per unit tariff, followed by China Machinery Eng Co (CMEC) & SEFC at 8.304 cents, and Hyundai Engineering at 8.332 cents per unit.

Project Financing

Plans for the project call for private sector investment to construct the plant, with the private company then selling electricity to the government of Pakistan at pre-negotiated rates. It is not financed under CPEC projects. As the project is to be constructed largely by the private sector, financing loans for the project do not fall under the concessionary loan agreement which finances CPEC projects, but it will still qualify for subsidized loans with an interest rate of 5% which are to be dispersed by the Exim Bank of China. For comparison, loans for previous Pakistani infrastructure projects financed by the World Bank carried an interest rate between 5% and 8.5%, while interest rates on market loans approach 12%.

Project Troubles 
Along with its sister Bhikki plant, the site faces issues with power generation. The Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) was given notice of zero power generation by the plants and issued investigations. In November 2019, then PM of Pakistan Imran Khan wished to privatize the Balloki power plant along with a few others.

See also
List of power stations in Pakistan
List of barrages and headworks in Pakistan
Head Balloki

References

Natural gas-fired power stations in Pakistan
2015 establishments in Pakistan
Energy in Punjab, Pakistan
BYD e5. The BYD e5 is a compact all-electric car manufactured by BYD, based on the gasoline-powered BYD Surui sedan, an internal combustion engine (ICE) car that had been introduced in 2012.

Specifications
The e5 featured a 65Ah lithium iron phosphate battery  (LiFePO4), capable of delivering an all-electric range of , and a top speed of . Retail sales began in China in September 2015. 1,426 units were delivered in the Chinese market in 2015, and 15,639 in 2016. 17,065 units were sold in China through December 2016.

A 300-km-range version called BYD e5 300, which shares many characteristics with the BYD Qin EV300, was launched in 2016.

Exports
Government incentives for electric vehicles has led to the BYD e5 being exported to several Latin American countries for use as taxis, including Santiago, in Chile. In Guayaquil, the capital city of Ecuador, it is currently the most popular model of electric vehicle used for taxis, but a lack of charging infrastructure has been a barrier to wider adoption.

See also
BYD e1
BYD e6
BYD F3DM
BYD F6DM

References

e5
Production electric cars
2010s cars
Compact cars
Sedans
Cars introduced in 2015
Forensic biomechanics. Forensic biomechanics is the application of biomechanical engineering science to litigation where biomechanical experts determine whether an accident was the cause of an alleged injury. (See  "New York State Bar Association Bar Journal November/December 2010 - The Rise of Biomechanical Experts at Trial by Robert Glick, Esq. and Sean O'Loughlin, Esq.) Application of biomechanics to the analysis of an accident involves an accident reconstruction coupled with an analysis of the motions and forces affecting the people involved in the accident. ( See "New York State Bar Association Bar Journal November/December 2010 - The Rise of Biomechanical Experts at Trial by Robert Glick, Esq. and Sean O'Loughlin, Esq.)  A biomechanical expert’s testimony on the motions and forces involved in an accident may be both relevant and probative on the issue of injury causation. (See  "New York State Bar Association Bar Journal November/December 2010 - The Rise of Biomechanical Experts at Trial by Robert Glick, Esq. and Sean O'Loughlin, Esq.)

History
During the years 2005 to 2019, the Courts of New York City witnessed the innovation and widespread use of biomechanical experts. Soon after the innovation of biomechanical experts in the Courts of New York City, prominent trial attorneys and the New York State Bar Association began offering scholarly articles and educational seminars on the use of biomechanical experts. Notable articles on Biomechanical Experts include: "New York State Bar Association Bar Journal November/December 2010 - The Rise of Biomechanical Experts at Trial by Robert Glick, Esq. and Sean O'Loughlin, Esq.", "The Role of Biomechanics Engineering: an Explanation in Accident Reconstruction by Richard Sands, Esq.", "New York Law Journal - Using Biomechanical Science in Labor Law and Premises Cases by Richard Sands, Esq.", "New York Law Journal - Winning the Biomechanical 'Frye' Hearing by Steven Balson-Cohen, Esq,"  PropertyCasualty360 - Insurers Tap Biomechanics To Fix Blame For Injuries Claimed In Crashes."

On December 28, 2018, the New York Law Journal published an article by prominent trial attorney Steven Balson-Cohen titled "Requiem for the Biomechanical ‘Frye’ Hearing?" revealing that the current state of the law in New York was that all four appellate divisions had accepted the legitimacy of biomechanical science in the courtroom.

Prominent trial attorneys in biomechanics include but are not limited to: Stephen B. Toner, Francis J. Scahill, Richard M. Sands, Claire F. Rush, Steven Balson-Cohen, John J. Komar, Howard Greenwald, Maurice J. Recchia, Cecil E. Floyd, Philip J. Rizzuto, Milene Mansouri, Joseph Jednak, Paul Koors, Anthony E. Graziani, Kristen N. Reed, and John Corring.

References

Biomechanics
Lawsuits