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Browning BLR. The Browning BLR is a lever-action rifle manufactured for Browning Arms Company by Miroku Firearms in Japan.  It comes in many different variations and is chambered in numerous calibers from small and fast (.22-250 Remington and .243 Winchester) to the large Magnum rounds (7mm Remington Magnum, .300 Winchester Magnum), and the large bore .450 Marlin.

Design
The BLR uses a detachable box magazine. Because of this, the BLR can be chambered for rounds with pointed tip Spitzer bullets that could be a safety issue for the tubular magazine more commonly used in lever-action rifles where a pointed bullet may, through the forces of recoil, strike the next round's primer and ignite that round.
The rack and pinion geared lever and bolt design can accommodate high-pressure modern magnum rounds. 
A notable feature is that the trigger moves with the lever when it is operated, which prevents the shooter's trigger finger from being pinched between the lever and the stock when the lever is closed.

Variants 
Production of the BLR began in the 1960s. The original "Model 81 BLR" revision had a steel receiver, which was changed to an aluminum alloy receiver with the introduction of the "Model 81 Lightning BLR" in 1995.  Although this made the rifle lighter, many owners prefer the steel receiver version. The Model 81 also incorporates changes to the action. The rifles are made in short-action and long-action models to accommodate a variety of calibers and is available with a straight-grip or pistol-grip stock. A takedown model for easy transportation and shipping is also available. The Black Label Edition include a rugged straight grip laminated wood stock, matte black finish on the metalwork, a multitude of Picatinny scope bases and a 16-inch barrel fitted with a flash hider.

Cartridges available 
Cartridges available in the Browning BLR:
.22-250 Remington
.222 Remington
.223 Remington
.257 Roberts (Discontinued)
.25-06 Remington (Limited run of 150 for Kones Korner)
.243 Winchester
.270 Winchester
.270 Winchester Short Magnum
.284 Winchester (Discontinued)
.30-06 Springfield
.300 Winchester Magnum
.300 Winchester Short Magnum
.308 Winchester
.325 Winchester Short Magnum
.358 Winchester
.450 Marlin
6.5mm Creedmoor
7mm Remington Magnum
7mm Winchester Short Magnum
7mm-08 Remington

See also
Savage Model 99
Winchester Model 1895

References

External links 
 Browning BLR page

Rifles of the United States
Lever-action rifles
The Deluge Drivers. The Deluge Drivers (1987) is a science fiction novel by American writer Alan Dean Foster.  It is the final entry in Foster's Icerigger Trilogy of books taking place in the Humanx Commonwealth book series.  The two earlier books in the series are Icerigger and Mission to Moulokin.

Plot introduction
After resigning himself to perhaps being trapped on Tran-Ky-Ky for the rest of his life, Ethan Fortune learns that scientists at the outpost of Brass Monkey have detected a steady warming in the planet’s atmosphere. This has caused something not seen in generations on the planet: open water on the ice oceans. Taking the giant icerigger Slanderscree with a crew of Tran to investigate, Fortune learns that the warming of the oceans is not an accidental or natural event.

References

External links

Alan Dean Foster homepage

1987 American novels
Humanx Commonwealth
Novels by Alan Dean Foster
1987 science fiction novels
American science fiction novels
Sequel novels
Del Rey books
LOTD. LOTD may stand for:
 Lesson of the Day- used especially on Twitter
 Land of the Dead, the fourth movie in George A. Romero's "Dead Series"
 Linux on the Desktop, Linux on the Desktop
 Lord of the Dance (disambiguation)
 Laws of thermodynamics, physics laws that describe the specifics for the transport of heat and work in thermodynamic processes
 Legion of the Damned (band), a Dutch thrash/death metal band
Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research. The Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research is a scientific laboratory studying the cloud processes that produce lightning, hail, and rain, located in the Magdalena Mountains of central New Mexico. The lab is operated by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) with funding from the National Science Foundation.

History 
The lab was founded in 1963, following pioneering research by E. J. Workman, the former president of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (then the New Mexico School of Mines), and others, including Nobel laureate Irving Langmuir, the namesake of the laboratory. The earlier studies took place on the Plains of San Agustin and the San Mateo Mountains.

Location 
The laboratory is located just south of South Baldy, the highest peak of the Magdalena mountains, at the southern end of the main ridge crest of the range, at an elevation of 10,679 ft (3,255 m). The Magdalena Mountains offer favorable conditions for the study of storms because of their frequency during the summer. Local storms are also often isolated, stationary, and relatively small.

The lab occupies the Langmuir Research Site, a congressionally-designated area within the Cibola National Forest, and operates under a Special Use Permit from the US Forest Service.

References
 Langmuir Lab official site
 New Mexico Tech web site

Laboratories in the United States
1963 establishments in New Mexico
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Buildings and structures in Socorro County, New Mexico
Power to the edge. Power to the edge refers to the ability of an organization to dynamically synchronize its actions; achieve command and control (C2) agility; and increase the speed of command over a robust, networked grid. The term is most commonly used in relation to military organizations, but it can equally be used in a civilian context.

"Power to the edge" is an information and organization management philosophy first articulated by the U.S. Department of Defense in a publication by Dr. David S. Alberts and Richard E. Hayes in 2003 titled: "Power to the Edge: Command...Control...in the Information Age." This book was published by the Command and Control Research Program and can be downloaded from the Program's website.

Principles
Power to the edge advocates the following:

Achieving situational awareness rather than creating a single operational picture
Self-synchronizing operations instead of autonomous operations
Information "pull" rather than broadcast information "push"
Collaborative efforts rather than individual efforts
Communities of Interest (COIs) rather than stovepipes
"Task, post, process, use" rather than "task, process, exploit, disseminate"
Handling information once rather than handling multiple data calls
Sharing data rather than maintaining private data
Persistent, continuous information assurance rather than perimeter, one-time security
Bandwidth on demand rather than bandwidth limitations
IP-based transport rather than circuit-based transport
Net-Ready KPP rather than interoperability KPP
Enterprise services rather than separate infrastructures
COTS based, net-centric capabilities rather than customized, platform-centric IT

Agility
The philosophy of power to the edge is aimed at achieving organizational agility. Such agility has six attributes:

Robustness: the ability to maintain effectiveness across a range of tasks, situations, and conditions
Resilience: the ability to recover from or adjust to misfortune, damage, or a destabilizing perturbation in the environment
Responsiveness: the ability to react to a change in the environment in a timely manner
Flexibility: the ability to employ multiple ways to succeed and the capacity to move seamlessly between them
Innovation: the ability to do new things and the ability to do old things in new ways
Adaptation: the ability to change work processes and the ability to change the organization

See also
Network-centric organization
Network-centric warfare
Network simulator

External links
Command and Control Research Program

References
Command and Control Research Program Website
Power to the Edge by Alberts and Hayes (2003)
Power to the Edge presentation by Dr. Margaret Myers, CIO-DOD
"Command and Control Implications of Network-Centric Warfare"

Management
Command and control
Net-centric
Joseph Hamilton Beattie. Joseph Hamilton Beattie (1808-1871) was a locomotive engineer with the London and South Western Railway. Joseph Beattie was born in Ireland on 12 May 1808. He was educated in Belfast and initially apprenticed to his father, a Derry architect. He moved to England in 1835 to serve as an assistant to Joseph Locke on the Grand Junction Railway and from 1837 on the London and Southampton Railway.  After the line opened he became the carriage and wagon superintendent at Nine Elms and succeeded John Viret Gooch as locomotive engineer on 1 July 1850.

Locomotives
Initially he designed a series of singles, but the weight of the Southampton and Salisbury expresses led to the development of 2-4-0s. He continued to develop the design over the next 20 years. In addition he developed a series of 2-2-2 and 2-4-0 well tanks and three classes of 0-6-0s. His locomotives were amongst the most efficient of the time.  Three of his most famous locomotive design, the 0298 Class 2-4-0 well tanks, were in service for 88 years, until 1962. 2 have been preserved - see the Swanage Railway, Bodmin & Wenford Railway and  the National Railway Museum, York.

Locomotive classes

Innovations
Beattie was a highly innovative engineer, introducing the country's first successful 2-4-0 locomotive, pioneering feedwater heating, balanced slide valves and coal-burning fireboxes. Since the Rainhill Trials in 1829, it had been accepted that the smoke emitted by burning coal was a nuisance. Railway companies accepted the need to burn coke (a smokeless fuel) in their locomotives, but this was much more expensive than coal, and several locomotive engineers sought a method by which coal could be burned smokelessly. One such engineer was Beattie, who designed a boiler suitable for coal in 1853.

Death
On 18 October 1871, Beattie died of diphtheria and was succeeded as locomotive engineer by his son William George Beattie.

References 

Bradley, D.L., (1989), LSWR Locomotives The Early Engines 1838-53 and the Beattie Classes, Wild Swan

External links 
 South Western Circle

1808 births
1871 deaths
Engineers from Belfast
Locomotive builders and designers
Locomotive superintendents
Deaths from diphtheria
London and South Western Railway people
British railway mechanical engineers
19th-century British engineers
Vivian Walsh (aviator). Vivian Claude Walsh (1888–1950) was a  New Zealand engineer. Vivian and his English-born elder brother Austin Leonard (Leo) Walsh (1881–1951) were pioneers of New Zealand aviation. The Walsh brothers were sons of immigrants from Yorkshire to New Zealand.

Vivian and Leo built a British Howard Wright biplane, which Vivian first flew on 5 February 1911. This was the first recognised powered flight made in New Zealand.

They established the New Zealand Flying School in 1915 to train pilots for the Royal Flying Corps, building their own series of flying boat trainers.

He made pioneering airmail, air passenger, and air survey flights, but was unable to make these commercially viable, and in 1924 he sold the New Zealand Flying School assets to the New Zealand Government, and gave up all involvement in aviation.

Vivian died in 1950, and Leo in 1951. The Auckland Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society, concerned to preserve the memory of the brothers' contribution, formed the Walsh Memorial Air Pageant Organisation. Several events raised significant monies for educational purposes - now administered via the New Zealand Aeronautical Trusts Ltd.

Other memorials include:
 A statue at Mission Bay to commemorate both Walsh brothers.
 The annual Walsh Memorial Scout Flying School run by the Scout Association of New Zealand. 
 Walsh Memorial Library at the Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) in Auckland.

See also
 Richard Pearse
 George Bolt
 Bert Pither

References

1888 births
1950 deaths
New Zealand aviation pioneers
Cockburn Scale. The Cockburn Scale, also known as the Project Classification Scale, is a method of describing how much formal process a software project requires.  The scale was described in Alistair Cockburn's book Agile Software Development. According to the author, the scale can be applied to other types of project, not only those that employ Agile methodologies.

Definition

The Cockburn Scale categorizes projects according to "criticality" and "size".

Process criticality is defined as the worst probable effect of an unremedied defect:
 Loss of Life (L)
 Loss of Essential Money (E)
 Loss of Discretionary Money (D)
 Loss of Comfort (C)

Process size is defined as the size of the project's development staff.  It is an open-ended scale, but the most commonly used values are 6, 20, 40, 100, and 200. 

A project is described by a pair of criticality and size indicators: for example, a two-person, life-critical project is categorized as a L6, while a 50-person project that, if it fails, could jeopardize the profits of an organization but not the organization's continued existence is categorized as a D100.

Application of the Scale
The criticality and size of a project can be juxtaposed on a grid:

Project classes closer to the top right corner of the table require a more formal process than project classes closer to the bottom left corner.

References

External links 
 Methodology per project - Alistair Cockburn's article in which he defines the scale that is now known as the Cockburn Scale
 Cockburn Scale discussion - An extract of the relevant discussion by Alistair Cockburn
 A Practical Guide to Seven Agile Methodologies - uses the Cockburn Scale to compare different Agile methodologies and their applicability.

Software metrics
Col de Braus. Col de Braus (1002 m) is a high mountain pass in the Alps in the department of Alpes-Maritimes in France.

It connects Sospel and L'Escarène. A railway tunnel has been dug under the pass.

See also
 List of highest paved roads in Europe
 List of mountain passes

References
  Cycling Elevation Profile

Mountain passes of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Mountain passes of the Alps
Hendrik Tennekes. Hendrik (Henk) Tennekes (born December 13, 1936, Kampen died July 3, 2021, Arnhem) was the director of research at the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut, or KNMI), and was a Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University and Professor of Meteorology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Free University (VU) in Amsterdam). He is known for his work in the fields of turbulence and multi-modal forecasting. He authored the textbooks The Simple Science of Flight: From Insects to Jumbo Jets and A First Course in Turbulence with John L. Lumley. The book "A First Course in Turbulence", is a classic that logs more than 12,000 citations on Google Scholar.

Tennekes has stressed the limited predictability of complex systems and the limited value of predictions based on scientific modeling.

He was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, KNAW) from 1982 – 2010.

Controversy 

In an interview in the Dutch paper De Telegraaf, Tennekes says he was ousted from his position at the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute due to his skepticism over climate change.  After publishing a column critical of climate model accuracy, Tennekes says he was told "within two years, you'll be out on the street".

Books 
The Simple Science of Flight, MIT Press, 1997. 
The Simple Science of Flight. From Insects to Jumbo Jets. Revised and Expanded Edition, 2009. MIT Press. Paperback 
A First Course in Turbulence, with John L. Lumley, MIT Press, 1972.

References

External links 
 The Lorenz paradigm and the limitations of climate models
 A Personal Call For Modesty, Integrity, and Balance

1936 births
Living people
Dutch meteorologists
People from Kampen, Overijssel
Fluid dynamicists
Aerodynamicists
Pennsylvania State University faculty
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Dutch flight instructors
Layang Layang Aerospace. Established in 1994, Layang Layang Aerospace Sdn Bhd (LLASB) is a licensed Malaysian company providing Commercial Air Transport (CAT), approved by MAVCOM and CAAM. Specializing in Aerial Survey, Photography, Emergency Medical Services, and Flying Doctor Services, LLASB also operates the CAAM Approved Training Organization (ATO) Layang Layang Flying Academy (LLFA) in Kota Kinabalu and Ipoh. As a key partner in government contracts, LLASB is known for efficiency and trustworthiness in Malaysia's aviation sector. With offices and operating from bases through out Malaysia, LLASB maintains a fleet of thirty-six (36) aircraft nationwide

Layang Layang Aerospace Sdn Bhd is a regional-charter airline based in Sabah, Malaysia. It was formed to provide air services to a popular Malaysian dive site, Layang Layang Island,  which is approximately  northwest of Sabah, by offering flights between Kota Kinabalu International Airport and Layang-Layang Airport. It also provides cargo services and also Emergency Medical Services (EMS).

Fleet
As of December 2024, Layang Layang Aerospace's fleet includes the following aircraft:

References

1994 establishments in Malaysia
Airlines of Malaysia
Privately held companies of Malaysia
Accuracy International AS50. The AS50 is a semi-automatic .50 BMG anti-material precision rifle manufactured by British firearms producer Accuracy International. It enables operators to engage targets at very long range with high accuracy using explosive or incendiary ammunition, and employs a gas operated semi-automatic action and muzzle brake, allowing for lower recoil than the AW50 bolt-action rifle and faster target acquisition. The rifle is highly transportable, ergonomic and lightweight. It can be disassembled in less than three minutes and serviced without tools.

The AS50 is designed for the British Armed Forces and United States Navy SEALs, the rifle is employed due to its high rate of fire (five rounds in 1.6 seconds). This high rate of fire is due mostly to the floating barrel and the lightweight titanium frame.

The rifle has an accuracy of 1.5 MOA. The barrel is free-floating. The two-part machined steel receiver features an integral accessory rail for mounting optical sights. Two additional rails are mounted on the sides of the short barrel shroud. An adjustable bipod and rear support leg/hand grip allow for stable shooting. This weapon can accurately engage targets at a range of .

The AS50 weighs  empty and holds five rounds of .50 BMG in a single-stack, removable box magazine.

See also
 OSV-96 – Russian counterpart
 Barrett M82 – another semi-automatic .50 BMG sniper rifle

References

External links
 Accuracy International AS50 sniper rifle

Semi-automatic rifles
.50 BMG sniper rifles
Sniper rifles of the United Kingdom
Anti-materiel rifles
James Rumsey Technical Institute. The James Rumsey Technical Institute (JRTI) is a technical institute in Martinsburg, West Virginia. It is named after James Rumsey, an American mechanical engineer and inventor from Shepherdstown, West Virginia. JRTI was founded on March 25, 1969.

Accreditation 
James Rumsey Technical Institute is accredited by the Council on Occupational Education.

External links
Official website

References 

Education in West Virginia
Education in Berkeley County, West Virginia
Public high schools in West Virginia
Martinsburg, West Virginia
Fokker F-10. The Fokker F-10 was an enlarged development of the Fokker F.VII airliner, built in the late 1920s by the Fokker Aircraft Corporation of America. It was a trimotor passenger aircraft, and it carried 12 passengers. This was four more than the F.VII it was based on, and it had a larger wing and more powerful engines than that design. A crash of this aircraft in 1931, lead to widespread reforms in the U.S. aviation industry and hurt the reputation of wooden winged' aircraft, especially the Fokker Tri-motor types.

Operational history
Fokker built 65 for commercial and military service. After the crash of a Transcontinental & Western Air F-10 in 1931, killing Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne and seven others, which was caused by the deterioration of the wooden wing spar, the type was temporarily grounded, and it was required to undergo more frequent and rigorous inspection. Its public image was also greatly damaged, leading to its early retirement from U.S. airlines.

Variants

F-10
Initial production variant.
F-10A
Improved and revised 14-passenger variant powered by three   Pratt & Whitney Wasp radial engines, often called the Super Trimotor.
C-5
United States Army designation for the evaluation of one re-engined F-10A powered by three Wright R-975 radials.
LB-2
Light bomber version.
RA-4
United States Navy designation for the evaluation of one F-10A.

Operators

Civil operators

 American Airways
 TWA
 Pan Am
 Universal Airlines
 Western Air Express (launch customer )
 Boston-Maine Airways

 Mexicana
 Aerovias Centrales

Military operators

 United States Army Air Corps designations C-5 and C-7A.

Accidents and incidents
 On June 10, 1929, a Pan Am F-10, registration NC9700 and named Cuba, struck telephone wires and crashed while taking off from Santiago de Cuba bound for Havana, killing two of five on board. The aircraft failed to gain altitude due to a waterlogged runway.
 On March 31, 1931, a Transcontinental & Western Air F-10 crashed near Bazaar, Kansas after a wing separated in flight, killing all eight on board, including football coach Knute Rockne.
 On March 19, 1932, an American Airways F-10A, registration NC652E, struck power lines in heavy fog and crashed into an orchard near Calimesa, California, killing all seven on board.
 On September 8, 1932, an American Airways F-10, registration NC9716, crashed into a mountain in poor weather near Salt Flat, Texas, killing three of four on board.

Specifications (F-10)

See also

References

External links

  A contemporary technical article on the Fokker F-10. (Though the article does not mention the long-winged F-10A, the table of specs at the end appear to be for this version. Specs in the rest of the article are for the original F-10.)

Fokker F.VII
F 10
1920s United States airliners
Trimotors
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
United States Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association. The United States Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association (USHPA) is a non-profit organization supporting foot-launched soaring flight in the United States. It began in 1971 as the Southern California Hang Gliding Association and became national in scope by the mid-1970s. When paragliding became popular in the U.S., the American Paragliding Association was formed. That eventually merged into the USHPA (then called the U.S. Hang Gliding Association). In 2006, paragliding was added to the organization name to reflect its growing contingent of paraglider pilot members.

USHPA is the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale–recognized body representing motorless hang gliding and paragliding competitions and records in the United States.

The organization provides a pilot proficiency program for foot-launched soaring pilots and instructors. It is available at the organization's website.

External links

 USHPA - The US Hang Gliding & Paragliding Association Website

Non-profit organizations based in the United States
Hang gliding
Paragliding
1971 in aviation
Aviation history of the United States