omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Tony Dawe. Tony Dawe (born 1940) is a British sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. Since 1958, he has worked on 70 feature films, 18 films made for television, and 340 hours of television drama. Before joining the film industry in 1967, he worked as an engineer at the famous EMI Abbey Road recording studios in 1958/60. Between 1960 and 1967, he worked for ABC Television at their Teddington studios, where he was in charge of the sound dubbing suite.

Selected filmography
 Oliver! (1968)
 Return of the Jedi (1983)
 Empire of the Sun (1987)
 Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

References

External links

1940 births
Living people
British audio engineers
Best Sound BAFTA Award winners
Carlos Delarios. Carlos Delarios is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He worked on 130 films from 1980 to 2008.

Selected filmography
 WarGames (1983)
 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
 RoboCop (1987)
 Total Recall (1990)

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American audio engineers
Kuang Sunmou. Kuang Sunmou or K.Y. Kwong was a Chinese railway engineer, businessman, and bureaucrat of the late 19th and early 20th century.

A resident of Nanhai, Guangdong Province, he was born in Guangzhou in 1863. He was one of the first Chinese to be sent to America to receive a western education. He started at Williston Seminary in Easthampton, Massachusetts, then enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1880. He returned to China before graduation to work as an assistant for the Kaiping Mining Company in Tangshan and then as an assistant engineer on the Peking–Mukden Railway from 1886 to 1900. From 1901 to 1903, he was an assistant engineer for the Pinghsiang–Chuchow Railway, before rejoining the Peking–Mukden as a resident engineer from 1903 to 1905. He subsequently served as district engineer on the Peking–Kalgan Railway and chief engineer for the Canton–Hankow Railway, Peking–Sulyuan Railway, and Tientsin–Pukow Railway.

Mr. Kuang was awarded the 5th, 4th, and 3rd orders of Chiaho, the 4th order of Wenfu, and the 4th order of Paokuang Chiaho. He also served as president of the Association of Chinese and American Engineers and the Chinese Engineers' Association.

He was a minister of the Ministry of Communications.

Notes

References

1863 births
Engineers from Guangdong
Businesspeople from Guangzhou
Year of death missing
Chinese Educational Mission students
Chinese railway mechanical engineers
Curtiss-Caproni. Curtiss-Caproni was an Italian-American aircraft manufacturer formed in the late 1920s to produce Caproni aircraft in America as part of the Curtiss-Wright aviation conglomerate.

As early as 1917, Curtiss was contracted to build Caproni-designed aircraft. On 18 May 1918, Curtiss received an order to build 500 Caproni aircraft. The Caproni test pilots died testing prototypes, and replacements never materialized.

A production partnership was tried again in 1929 with the forming of the Curtiss-Caproni Company. Curtiss-Caproni built a  construction factory in Dundalk, Maryland with a 20-year lease from the city of Baltimore and the hiring of George C. Westervelt as manager. Construction was completed in 1930 at the peak of the Great Depression with the intent of hiring 500 to 1000 employees. Employment was reduced to two after completion of the plant and agreements were made to delay operating expenses with the city of Baltimore until production commenced.  The factory was later occupied by the General Aviation Corporation in 1931. Curtiss-Caproni was absorbed into its parent company, the new Curtiss-Wright, on 5 July 1929.

References

Bibliography

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Mansfield Engineered Components. Mansfield Engineered Components is a Mansfield, Ohio-based company that designs and manufactures closure mechanisms, counterbalances and hinges for the major appliance market.

History 
Mansfield Plating Company was founded by Otis Cummins Jr. in 1939. It provided metal finishing services for the automotive, appliance and furniture markets. In the 1960s, Cummins and his son Otis “Koke” Cummins III formed Mansfield Manufacturing, fabricating metal components for the company’s existing markets. The two companies merged to become Mansfield Industries in 1972. Another company, Mansfield Assemblies, was founded in 1987 to provide contract manufacturing and assembly operations. Mansfield Assemblies added a design and engineering group in 1989. 
On October 13, 2011, Mansfield Industries and Mansfield Assemblies announced a new name, Mansfield Engineered Components.
In July 2023 MEC entered into a strategic partnership with The Sabaf Group, a world leader in the design and production of components for major appliance markets. Through the agreement, The Sabaf Group, based in Ospitaletto, Italy, acquired 51 percent ownership of Mansfield Engineered Components. The company continues to operate in its existing facilities, in Mansfield, Ohio, with its current management and existing employee base.

MEC employs 220 and operates from a 180,000-square-foot facility. Mansfield Engineered Components has received awards and recognition from some of its major customers for its ability to design and deliver custom closure mechanisms.
The company was also named a 2010 United States Department of Energy Save Energy Now Energy Champion Plant.

Current customers 

 Bakers Pride
 BSH Bosch
 Electrolux 
 General Electric Appliances 
 Mabe  
 The Manitowoc Company  
 Panasonic
 Sub-Zero  
 Viking Range
 Whirlpool Corporation

References

Manufacturing companies based in Ohio
Mansfield, Ohio
Manufacturing companies established in 1939
1939 establishments in Ohio
Aviation in Alabama. Alabama's first aeronautical event was on 10 March 1910 with the flight of a Wright biplane flown by Orville Wright in Montgomery, Alabama.

Events 
 1909: E.T. Odum brings an aircraft to the Alabama State Fair.
 15 March 1910: Orville and Wilbur Wright establish the nation's first civilian flying school in Montgomery, Alabama.
 1931: Steadham Acker starts the National Air Carnival series of air shows at Birmingham Municipal Airport.
 10 July 1991: L'Express Airlines Flight 508 crashed at Birmingham Municipal Airport.

Aircraft Manufacturers 
 Boeing manufactures the Delta IV rocket in Decatur, Alabama.
 Continental Motors, Inc., Mobile, Alabama 1929- Major producer of aircraft engines for general aviation aircraft.
 Airbus builds aircraft in the A320 family at the Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley industrial complex.

Aerospace 
73,000 jobs are based in Alabama in support of aerospace.

National Space Science and Technology Center a joint research venture between NASA and the seven research universities of the state of Alabama.
Continental Motors Services provides final assembly of the CD-135 and CD-155 engine in Fairhope, Alabama.

Airports 
 List of Airports in Alabama

Colleges and universities
Auburn University is home to the nation's oldest continually operated flight school and is the only 4-year aviation degree in the State of Alabama. In 2022, Auburn University built the Delta Air Lines Aviation Education Building that included an Airbus 320 commercial airline simulator.

Commercial Service 
Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport provides air service with 1.4 million operations annually.

Government and Military

 All flight operations in Alabama are conducted within FAA oversight.
 Maxwell Air Force Base is the headquarters of Air University (United States Air Force).
 The Redstone Arsenal supports missile and space operations.
 The Marshall Space Flight Center supports NASA operations.
 The U. S. Army Air Corps' Tuskegee Airmen were trained at Tuskegee, Alabama
 The Alabama State Trooper Aviation Unit was formed in 1975 using four Bell H-13 Sioux and one Cessna 182. The unit currently operates one Bell 206L, one Bell 407, seven OH-58 helicopters and three Cessna 182’s, a Piper Navajo and King Air 200.
 Cullman City Police Department operates two OH-58, Dale County Sheriff's Office operates 3 OH-58's, Etowah County Sheriff's Office operates one OH-58 and one Cessna 172, Jefferson County Sheriff's Office operates two OH-58's, Limestone County Alabama Sheriff's Office operates one OH-58, Morgan County Sheriff's Office operates one OH-58, Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Aviation Unit operates two OH-58's, Tuscaloosa Alabama Police Department operates two OH-58's

Museums 
 The Southern Museum of Flight is located in Birmingham, Alabama and houses the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame.
 The United States Army Aviation Museum is located on Fort Novosel near Ozark, Alabama.
 The U.S. Space & Rocket Center is located in Huntsville, Alabama

Gallery

References
Jacques Friedel. Jacques Friedel ForMemRS (; 11 February 1921 – 27 August 2014) was a French physicist and material scientist.

Education
Friedel attended the Cours Hattemer, a private school. He studied at the École Polytechnique from 1944 to 1946, and the École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris from 1946 to 1948. He graduated from the University of Paris with a licence ès sciences degree in 1948, then studied at the Metallurgy Laboratory of the School of Mines with Charles Crussard.  He graduated from the University of Bristol with a PhD in 1952, where he studied with Nevill Francis Mott, and a Doctorat d'Etat in Paris in 1954.

Career
He was assistant professor at Paris-Sorbonne University in 1956, then full professor of Solid State Physics (from 1959 to 1989) at the University of Paris-Sud where he co-founded the Laboratory of Solid State Physics. He authored more than 200 journal articles.

He was the president of the Société française de physique, the European Physical Society, and the French Academy of Sciences from 1992 to 1994.

Awards and honors
Friedel was awarded the gold medal of the French CNRS in 1970, elected as a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1988. He was a fellow of American Physical Society and fellow of European Physical Society. He received in 1964 the Holweck Prize and in 1988 the Von Hippel Award.  He was appointed a Knight of the Légion d'Honneur, promoted to Officer and subsequently to Commander on 31 March 1989 and to Grand Officer on 30 December 1995. He was promoted to Grand Cross on 14 July 2013.

Personal life
Friedel's great-grandfather Charles Friedel was an organic chemist and crystallographer at Paris-Sorbonne University, his grandfather Georges Friedel worked on liquid crystals, and his father Edmond Friedel was the director of the National School of Mines from 1937 to 1965.

See also
Slater–Pauling rule

References

1921 births
2014 deaths
École Polytechnique alumni
Mines Paris - PSL alumni
Corps des mines
French people of German descent
French physicists
Foreign members of the Royal Society
Recipients of the Great Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil)
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
Alumni of the University of Bristol
Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
Fellows of the American Physical Society
University of Paris alumni
French expatriates in the United Kingdom
Presidents of the European Physical Society
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Presidents of the Société Française de Physique
EEL ULF 2. The EEL ULF-2 is a German low-wing, conventional landing gear, single-seat motor glider that was designed by Dieter Reich and is provided in the form of plans by Entwicklung und Erprobung von Leichtflugzeugen () for amateur construction.

Design and development
The prototype was built in 1993 by Anton Quanz with Horst Fischer building the engine installation and electrical system. The ULF-2 first flew in October 1993.

The ULF-2 is predominantly constructed from northern pine or Douglas fir, with spruce and birch plywood and covered with doped aircraft fabric. The engine cowling, wing tips and fairings are made from fibreglass. The  span wing features a Wortmann FX 63-137 airfoil and top surface spoilers. The aircraft mounts a ballistic parachute full-aircraft recovery system. The landing gear is conventional with a steerable tailwheel. The  wide cockpit features a pilot seat inclined at a 33° angle.

The recommended engine is from a Citroën Visa automobile, which consumes 4.0 L/h (1.06 US gallon per hour) and produces . The engine retains its automobile muffler and catalytic converter, runs on unleaded auto fuel, stored in a fuselage-mounted aluminium fuel tank with a capacity of . The propeller is powered via a belt reduction drive. The muffler system allows the aircraft to comply with the ICAO Annex 16, Chapt. 10 noise requirements of 55 dB(A).

The aircraft's wings fold on gimbal joints for storage or ground transportation in a trailer.

The ULF-2 received its Certificate of Airworthiness in February 1995. As a result of his design work Reich received the OUV Hans-Becker-Prize in June 1997. The plans consists of 29 sheets of blueprints, a 50-page construction manual and a 20-page flight manual, available in both English and German. The plans cost  €350 and a completed aircraft is estimated to cost €8000.

The aircraft has very benign stall characteristics, resulting in a controllable slow speed mush condition.

Operational history
The first ULF-2 completed by a customer was flown in 1999 and a total 15 have been finished and flown.

Specifications (ULF-2)

See also

References

External links

1990s German sailplanes
Homebuilt aircraft
Entwicklung und Erprobung von Leichtflugzeugen aircraft
Motor gliders
Aircraft first flown in 1993
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Manuel 1929 Biplane. The second Manuel Biplane was a simple biplane glider that was designed and built by Bill (W. L.) Manuel in the UK in the late 1920s. It mostly flew tethered as a kite, in the propwash of a stationary powered aircraft.

Design and development

The very basic Manuel glider was an all wood two bay biplane without stagger, sweep or dihedral.  The bays were divided by pairs of parallel interplane struts; the interplane gap was large. The upper and lower wings had the same span and were precisely rectangular in plan, with ailerons on the upper planes. The tail surfaces were carried on a horizontally orientated flat girder formed from two long wooden members joined by four cross struts and diagonal wire bracing.  This was fixed to the wing, at mid gap, through another pair of interplane struts and wire braced from the wings against vertical deflections. The horizontal tail was all-moving and a rhomboidal rudder was attached to a slender triangular fin.  The pilot sat, exposed, ahead of the lower wing on a short platform with the same width as the fuselage girder and extending a little behind the trailing edge.

The first flight was at RAF Hawkinge in Kent, where Corporal Manuel was stationed, on 5 May 1929.  In later tests the Biplane was tethered on a 20 ft (6.1 m) rope to a Gloster Grebe and flown in its propwash for a few minutes before the Grebe's Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar engine began to overheat.  The Biplane was eventually destroyed in these experiments.

Specifications

References

1920s British sailplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1929
Manuel gliders
Biplanes
Streak seeding. Streak seeding is a method first described during ICCBM-3 by Enrico Stura to induce crystallization in a straight line into a sitting or hanging drop for protein crystallization by introducing microseeds. The purpose is to control nucleation and understand the parameters that make crystals grow. It is also used to test any particular set of conditions to check if crystals could grow under such conditions.

The technique is relatively simple. A cat whisker is used to dislodge seeds from a crystal. The whisker is passed through the drop starting from one side of the drop and ending on the opposite side of the drop in one smooth motion. To allow for vapour diffusion equilibration, the well in which the drop has been placed is resealed. The same procedure is repeated for all the drops whose conditions need testing.

References

Crystallography
Manuel VI Primary. The Manuel VI Primary was a wire-braced monoplane primary glider designed and built by W L. (Bill) Manuel whilst serving in the RAF in 1930. It flew successfully but only one was built.

Design and development
The Manuel Primary was a wooden aircraft built around an open, vertical, tapered girder with a horizontal upper member and a lower one shaped at the front into a shallow keel.  The girder was strengthened with a series of vertical and diagonal cross-pieces.   The keel projected forward of the foremost vertical member and carried the pilot's seat on its upper edge.  The thick-profile wing was attached to the upper part of the girder and was straight edged with constant chord apart from the angled tips of the ailerons. Extensions of two of the forward girder cross-pieces formed a triangular structure over the wing which acted as a king post for a pair of landing wires. Flying wires from the keel and the upper member about halfway to the rear of the girder carried the lifting loads on the wing.  There were also bracing wires from wing to the rear of the aircraft to restrain horizontal bending of the girder.  The rectangular tailplane was likewise fixed to the top of the girder and carried elevators with a cut-out in which the all-moving rectangular rudder, which extended to the lower girder, could operate.

Operational history
The glider flew for the first time on 30 August 1930 at RAF Hawkinge in Kent, where Corporal Manuel was based. He made many more flights in it and other Channel Gliding Club pilots also flew it. It was finally destroyed in a road accident in the way to a meeting near Brighton in October 1930.

Specifications

See also

References

External links
 

1930s British sailplanes
Manuel gliders
Aircraft first flown in 1930
Barel Graal. The Barel Graal (English: Grail) is a French mid-wing, T-tailed single-seat motor glider that was designed by Max Barel and produced by Graal Aéro as a complete ready-to-fly aircraft or as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development
The Graal was designed as a low-cost, self-launching FAI 15 Metre Class motorglider that conforms to the French and Fédération Aéronautique Internationale ultralight rules. Because of the low wing loading imposed by the ultralight rules it was not intended to be a competitive sailplane, but to be used for recreational soaring. It was first flown on 2 February 2002.

The aircraft is made from composites and features an unusual tail configuration. The fuselage joins the T-tail halfway up the vertical stabilizer. The folding three-bladed propeller is mounted at the rear of the fuselage and so the lower half of the fin protects the propeller from contacting the ground. The  twin cylinder RDM 200 engine is mounted inside the fuselage, just behind the pilot, using trap doors for cooling and exhaust. The engine drives the tail-mounted propeller through an extension shaft. The propeller folds automatically when the engine is shut down due to aerodynamic drag and also deploys automatically on engine start by centrifugal effect as it starts to spin. A fuselage mounted fuel tank holds . The Graal has a semi-tapered wing with a  span that features top and bottom dive brakes, full-span flaperons and employs an Eppler E668 airfoil. Landing gear is a retractable monowheel gear and the aircraft has a ballistic parachute.

The Graal disassembles and is transported in a lightweight trailer.

In 2002 the company indicated the aircraft cost €35000 for a complete ready-to-fly aircraft and €21000 for a quick-build kit.

Specifications (Graal)

See also

References

External links

Photos of the prototype Graal

2000s French sailplanes
Homebuilt aircraft
T-tail aircraft
Motor gliders
Aircraft first flown in 2002
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Law of Gravity (disambiguation). The Law of Gravity refers to the natural phenomenon known as Gravitation.

Law(s) of Gravity may also refer to:

 Law of Gravity (CSI), an episode of CSI
 Law of Gravity (I Am Weasel)" (I Am Weasel), an episode of I Am Weasel
 Laws of Gravity (Oz), an episode of Oz
 Laws of Gravity (film), a 1992 American crime film
Civil Engineering Contractors Association. The Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) is a United Kingdom construction organisation. Headquartered in London, it was established in November 1996 to represent the interests of civil engineering contractors.

Its membership currently comprises over 350 companies, ranging from small regional businesses to companies operating across the UK and overseas. Collectively, CECA members account for 75-80% of civil engineering work undertaken in the UK.

External links
 CECA website 

Civil engineering organizations
Construction organizations
Business organisations based in London
Organisations based in the City of Westminster
Sri Lanka Railways S11. Sri Lanka Railways S11 is a class of Diesel-electric multiple unit (DEMU) train set built for Sri Lanka Railways by Integral Coach Factory, India and imported through RITES Ltd, an Indian state infrastructure corporation on a line of credit extended by the Indian Government. They were built to replace locomotive-hauled passenger trains. Twenty S11 DEMUs were ordered to strengthen long-distance travel on the Coastal Line from Colombo to Matara.

History

Conception 
The railway decided to add the DMUs to its service as part of its Coastal line's upgrade project, where track was upgraded to improve speed.  The DMUs were built by Integral Coach Factory, to replace locomotive-hauled passenger trains.

Inauguration into service 
The trains were inaugurated into the railway service on 11 March 2011 with a ceremony at Matara Railway Station.  According to a press release from the Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka, twenty DEMUs would be supplied to Sri Lanka Railways in phases till March 2012.

One of the DEMUs faced technical problems on the Galle–Matara section; during the journey, the train came to an abrupt halt due to an electrical short-circuit and resumed its journey after 20 minutes when the fault was set right. Sri Lanka Railways suspended further importation of the DEMUs. In April 2011, the suspension was revoked after a team from RITES inspected them and declared that the faults were due to an electrical failure caused by tinkering and the DEMU running with more coaches than it was designed for.

Operations 
The S11 DMUs are primarily operated on the Coastal line, connecting Colombo, Galle, and Matara.  The sets are used on the Ruhunu Kumari, Vavniya ICE and several other suburban trains. Apart from the single instance of a 20-minute failure on the Galle – Matara section, there has been no other failure of the DMUs. Other than on Coastal Line, one DMU is running express on Puttalam Line where it only stops at Negombo and seven other stations up to Chilaw after Dematagoda.

Current fleet specifications

Crashes & incidents

Alawwa Crash 
 2011 Alawwa rail accident –  On 17 September 2011, near Alawwa, two trains (a locomotive-hauled train and an S11 DMU No. 899) collided, killing 3 people and injuring 20. The S11 ran into the rear observation car of the train ahead.

Pothuhera Crash 

On 31 May 2014 a north bound Deyata Kirula intercity express train hauled by S11 No. 902 and the Colombo bound Rajarata Rejini train hauled by Class M2 - 570 collided together in the Pothuhera railway station near Kurunegala injuring 68 people and causing serious damages to the both trains and the track. This has been considered as the most damage valued accident for Sri Lanka Railways.

Gallery

See also 

Sri Lanka Railways
Sri Lanka Railways S13

References 

S11
Train-related introductions in 2011