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Vance Viking. The Vance Viking, also called the Vance Flying Wing Express, and the Texas Sky Ranger, was a single seat cargo and racing aircraft.

Design and development
Claire K. Vance founded the Vance Aircraft Corporation to build the "Flying Wing" design. The aircraft was designed though a series of hand-carved wooden models before drawings were made, with the intention of it being a high speed, high altitude air-freighter with storage in thick wing lockers. Its short air racing history was interrupted by the 1932 death of its designer Claire Vance who struck a fog-covered mountain at Rocky Ridge.

The "Flying Wing" was a conventional long-range aircraft for the period with the exception of the two large booms aft of the cockpit supporting the twin tail surfaces and twin rudders, rather than a conventional fuselage. The tandem seat aircraft was converted to a single pilot aircraft that featured a radial engine and conventional landing gear (one tailwheel for each boom). Fourteen fuel tanks totaling  were interconnected inside the cantilevered mid-wing. The aircraft was of mixed construction, with an aluminum-covered welded steel tube fuselage. The wing used wooden wing spars with plywood covering. A forced air induction system was built into the wing roots with exhausts mounted near the trailing edges.

Operational history
In 1932 the Viking dropped out of the Bendix Trophy race following fuel system issues. In 1933 it was entered, but did not compete in the Bendix Trophy race.

In 1934 Lt. Murray B. Dilley purchased the aircraft and production rights from Claire Vance's estate for $10,000 with the intention of racing the aircraft in the 1934 England-Australia MacRobertson Air Race. Dilley only paid $2500 of the amount owed, and abandoned the aircraft in the desert near Palm Springs, California. The Flying Wing was bought at auction in 1936 for $2500 by the Mason Aircraft Corporation. Clyde Pangborn planned on using the aircraft for a Dallas, Texas to Moscow Flight. Later the aircraft was returned to tandem configuration, a radio compass was installed, it was re-painted red and white and christened "The Texas Sky Ranger". Roland W. Richards sponsored the aircraft as part of a publicity campaign for the Texas Centennial Exposition to fly to New York, Paris, visit London, Amsterdam, Madrid, and Brussels and then return on a non-stop Paris to Dallas flight with Pangborn and Mony Mason as pilots. Mason backed out by not meeting a commitment, but the flight was planned to continue independently with Pangborn with newspaper sponsorship.

Specifications (Vance Viking)

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Racing aircraft
Twin-boom aircraft
Mid-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1932
Swallow Aeroplane Company Swallow. The Swallow Aeroplane Company Swallow is a series of American ultralight aircraft that was designed by Chet Fudge and  produced by the Swallow Aeroplane Company in the 1980s. The aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

The Swallow Aeroplane Company should not be confused with the 1920s era Swallow Airplane Company.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of . When equipped with a lightweight Rotax 277 engine the aircraft has a standard empty weight of . It features a cable-braced high-wing, a single-seat, open cockpit, tricycle landing gear and one or two engines in pusher configuration.

The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with the flying surfaces covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its  span wing is cable-braced from an inverted "V" kingpost. The pilot is accommodated on an open seat, without a windshield. The aircraft controls are conventional three-axis. The engine or engines are mounted to the wing leading edge and drive the propeller, located at the trailing edge and in between the tail boom tubes, through an extension shaft. Some Swallows used an unusual tubular engine fairing.

Variants
Swallow A
Initial version, powered by a single Rotax 277 of  or a pair of Yamaha KT-100 engines of  each, coupled together to a common combining gearbox and powering a single propeller. The "A" model has a standard empty weight of  and if built carefully can qualify as a US FAR 103 ultralight.
Swallow B
Differs from the "A" only in engine installed, a single Cuyuna 430 of . The "B" model has a standard empty weight of  and is thus too heavy for the US FAR 103 ultralight category, but qualifies as an Experimental Amateur-Built.

Specifications (Swallow B)

References

External links
Photo of a Swallow B

1980s United States ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Twin-engined single-prop tractor aircraft
Swallow
Mason Aircraft Company. Mason Aircraft Company was an American aircraft manufacturer of the late 1920s and 1930s.

Mason Aircraft Company was founded by Monty G. Mason of Los Angeles, California.  Mason modified a 1928 custom aircraft built by students of the California Polytechnic State University into an aerial broadcasting booth for NBC with the call sign KHRCX. The aircraft was also equipped with fuel tanks for a 1934 non-stop aerial refueling record attempt. On 29 April 1934, the aircraft crashed in a landing accident at Long Beach, California

In 1936, Mason Aircraft bought the Vance Flying Wing at Auction for $2500. Monty Mason and Clyde Pangborn planned on using the aircraft for a Dallas, Texas to Moscow Flight.

Aircraft

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Bibliography

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Solo (Mason novel). Solo is a 1993 science fiction novel by Robert Mason. The book was Mason's second novel; he had previously written Weapon and a memoir about his experiences in Vietnam titled Chickenhawk.

Plot introduction
When the self-aware Pentagon-built robot, Solo, goes AWOL, the Pentagon uses its reserve robot, Nimrod, as bait luring Solo into a trap meant to destroy him, and setting the stage for a cyborg confrontation.

Plot summary

Solo, a robot designed by the US Government as a hyper intelligent super assassin, goes AWOL on his mission in Nicaragua, and finds himself at the bottom of a lake. Reaching the surface Solo realizes that he needs to recharge, and eventually makes his way to New York, acquiring friends along the way. A widowed bag lady named Laura, quickly befriends Solo and benefits not only from Solo's friendship, but his protection. Solo is bent on his self-imposed mission to rescue his younger "brother," Nimrod, a newer, more advanced robot like Solo. Meanwhile, agents of the Government maneuver to destroy the renegade Solo at any cost.

Self-determination on the part of the main character.

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations
The feature film Solo created in 1996, is an adaptation of the first book of the series Weapon, and though it borrows the name of the title character from both novels, it is not considered to be true to the source material.

Sources, references, external links, quotations
Sample Chapters from Robert Mason's Website
Author's Note on Weapon
 Plot Description Summary for Solo

1992 American novels
American science fiction novels
Sequel novels
Novels set in New York City
Novels set in Nicaragua
SSDM. SSDM may refer to:

 Seabed Survey Data Model, a format for geographic information system data, developed by the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers
 Semantic service discovery mechanisms, a component of Task Computing Frameworks in computer programming
 Short stick defensive midfielder, a player position in field lacrosse
 South Sudan Democratic Movement, a rebel organisation in South Sudan
 Stochastic Signal Density Modulation, a novel power modulation technique primarily for LED power control
CMI Roadbuilding. CMI Roadbuilding, Inc. of Oklahoma City began in 1961, when engineers headed by Bill Swisher started looking for new methods in the road building industry.  Little had changed since the early 1900s in the methods of building roads, however, labor costs were skyrocketing and inflation meant taxpayers dollars were buying less and less.  In the same period Society was becoming increasingly more mobile creating demand for better roads and highways.  The CMI group believed that many road failures were due to poor riding surface which was mainly caused by inaccuracies in the subgrade.

Autograde
A machine was developed that could economically implement an Automated Profile Road Building Method and would be known as the Autograde.  This machine was known as either a “trimmer-spreader” or a fine-grader.  It could trim or cut off high spots of a road bed and then spread the soil across the entire width of the road profile.  By its very nature it was fine-grading the base course of the new road.  The Autograde used an auger with cutting teeth to perform this function.

Features
The Autograde could be adapted to perform many tasks including:

Single or dual lane Trimmer-spreader
Using the auger with cutting teeth, it could fine grade the road bed.

Base Reclaimer
Using the auger and a conveyor belt to pick up excess material and deposit it in a truck.

Asphalt Paver
Using the auger and screed to place and level asphalt on the road.

Concrete Slip for paving
Using the auger and screed to place and form a concrete slab.

Advantages
This one machine could do the same work as numerous other pieces of machinery, only more quickly and more accurately.

Acquisitions
CMI acquired two concrete batch plant manufacturers, Ross Co. in Texas and C.S. Johnson in Illinois.

Further developments
CMI Went on to develop other equipment and was purchased by Terex in 2001.  The remaining CMI Roadbuilding products were sold in 2013 to and independent company along with the CMI Roadbuilding Inc. name.  CMI Roadbuilding established a separate facility in Oklahoma City, OK.  Subsequently CMI also purchased the shuttered Terex Cranes Facility in Waverly, IA.  Production of product lines was relocated to facility in 2017.

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Road construction
Construction equipment manufacturers of the United States
Companies based in Oklahoma City
Manufacturing companies established in 1961
1961 establishments in Oklahoma
2001 mergers and acquisitions
CSC Maiden Saginaw. The Maiden Saginaw was the only aircraft built by the fledgling CSC Aircraft Company.

Design and development
In 1924 Walter J. Carr found investors Walter Savage, Edward Savage and John Coryell willing to put money into a new enclosed cabin aircraft.

The Maiden Saginaw was a cantilever high-wing cabin monoplane with conventional landing gear with dual wheels and a  OXX-6 Engine.

Operational history
The Maiden Saginaw suffered from nearly zero forward visibility and an underpowered engine for its size. The prototype flew in May 1925 and did not win over investors. The product was later scrapped.

Specifications (Maiden Saginaw)

References

Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined piston aircraft
Paramount Cabinaire. The Paramount Cabinaire was a 1920s designed cabin biplane, designed by Walter J. Carr and produced by the Paramount Aircraft Corporation. Only eight were completed before production ceased.

Design and development
Following the failure of Walter J. Carr's first aircraft company, the CSC Aircraft Company, Carr worked as a tester for the new Warner Scarab radial engines. Carr flew with Scarabs on a Travel Air 2000, and later cannibalized the test aircraft to produce the first Cabinaire aircraft design.

The prototype Cabinaire was formed around a welded steel tube Travel Air 2000 fuselage modified for an enclosed cabin. A new center section of wing was added and Travel air wings were reinstalled onto the center sections. The biplane aircraft featured a radial engine, and conventional landing gear. The upper wing was mounted several inches above the enclosed cabin. The entire plane was fabric covered with wooden wing spars and ribs. The upscale cabin used two individual upholstered wicker seats in the front and a wicker bench seat for passengers. The interior used velour finishing, nickel plating, mohair rugs, mahogany panels and roll-down windows.

Prototype #2 was made from parts of the first. Each production model differed slightly from each other with choices of engines, and landing gear and aileron improvements.

Operational history
In 1929, Viola Gentry and Jack Ashcroft attempted an endurance record for flight with aerial refueling in a modified Cabinaire SN#5 named The Answer. The name was chosen in response to the Army aircraft that had completed previous endurance records, the Question Mark. The aircraft had a 55-gallon cabin tank, and 21 gallon wing tanks installed for the attempt. The Answer crew was unable to refuel after the first ten hours of flight due to fog and crashed 28 June 1929, killing Ashcroft. Carr had been the original choice of co-pilot, but had to pass on the opportunity when struck with pneumonia.

In 1930, a Cabinaire was entered in the 4814 mile long Ford National Reliability Air Tour, placing 15th out of 18. The same aircraft has been restored and was still flown in 2011.

Variants
Cabinaire 110 
 Warner Radial   SN#1-6
Cabinaire 165
 Wright J-6  SN#7
Cabinaire A-70
  - Originally, SN#3 flown as an aerial survey aircraft, it was rebuilt to meet ATC requirements, with a new engine, becoming SN#9.

Specifications (Paramount Cabinaire 165)

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Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1928
Single-engined piston aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Jesse E. Hobson. Jesse Edward Hobson (May 2, 1911 – November 5, 1970) was the director of SRI International from 1947 to 1955. Prior to SRI, he was the director of the Armour Research Foundation.

Early life and education
Hobson was born in Marshall, Indiana. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University and a PhD in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Hobson was also selected as a nationally outstanding engineer.

Hobson married Jessie Eugertha Bell on March 26, 1939, and they had five children.

Career

Awards and memberships
Hobson was named an IEEE Fellow in 1948.

References

1970 deaths
SRI International people
Purdue University College of Engineering alumni
California Institute of Technology alumni
Fellows of the IEEE
1911 births
Terra Ronca State Park. The Terra Ronca State Park was created by decree nr. 10,879 of 7 July 1989 and had its area and boundaries established by decree nr. 4,700 of 21 August 1996, covering the municipality of São Domingos. Around the state park they created the environmental protection area (APA) of the Serra Geral, by decree nr. 4,666 of 16 April 1996. The areas of these two protected areas are of restricted use and regularly monitored and audited by the Agência Goiana de Meio Ambiente e Recursos Naturais, covering respectively .

The implementation of the park and the APA has as their main focus the protection of all the natural complex of the region composed of numerous caves with a rich system of speleothems, springs and rivers of clear waters that run inside and outside the caves, as well the diverse flora and fauna of the region, offering a spectacle for the vastness of countless species, including some endemic ones. The area of the park falls within the domain morphology of the Brazilian Central Plateau, northwest of the state of Goiás, on the border with the state of Bahia.

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State parks of Brazil
Protected areas established in 1989
Protected areas of Goiás
1989 establishments in Brazil
Cerrado
Jean Kérisel. Jean Lehuérou Kérisel (18 November 1908 – 22 January 2005) was a French engineer and Egyptologist.  He was a specialist in soil mechanics and geotechnics. 

After studying at Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Kérisel became a pioneer in understanding and modeling the way soil interacts with man built structures. He had a rich career, as a civil servant (he notably led the reconstruction effort in France after World War II, from 1944 to 1951), as an entrepreneur (he founded the soil mechanics engineering firm called SIMECSOL), and as a teacher and a writer. He married Suzy Caquot, the daughter of Albert Caquot, in 1931. Towards the end of his life, he applied his engineering skills to examining old buildings with a different perspective. He examined the descending corridor of the Great Pyramid of Giza in 1992.

An engineer's perspective in the field of Egyptology for instance led him to the publication of interesting theories about the Kheops pyramid and where the actual Kheops tomb might be located. Kérisel also wrote books about the "invisible art of the builder" (foundations) and "of stones and man", a set of thoughts about the skills and limitations of great builders through history. He received numerous distinctions for his work, becoming the President of the French Committee for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (1969-1973) and the President of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMFE - 1973-1979). He was awarded an "honoris causa" PhD by the universities of Liege and Naples, and was honored by the Hungarian Science Academy and the British Geotechnical Association. He was Commandeur de la Legion d'honneur in France.

References

French civil engineers
École Polytechnique alumni
École des Ponts ParisTech alumni
Corps des ponts
French Egyptologists
1908 births
2005 deaths
Geotechnical engineers
20th-century French engineers
Carlos Cat. Carlos Alfredo Cat Vidal (July 2, 1930 - March 28, 2006) was a Uruguayan civil engineer and politician.

A member of the National Party, he served as Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare (1990-1991), President of BROU (1993-1995) and Minister of Housing, Territorial Planning and Environment (2000-2002).

He died in 2006, and is buried at the Central Cemetery of Montevideo.

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1930 births
2006 deaths
Politicians from Montevideo
Engineers from Montevideo
University of the Republic (Uruguay) alumni
Uruguayan civil engineers
National Party (Uruguay) politicians
Ministers of labor and social affairs of Uruguay
Directors of the Office of Planning and Budgeting of Uruguay
Ministers of housing, territorial planning and environment of
Burials at the Central Cemetery of Montevideo
Tukahe Dam. The Tukahe Dam (土卡河) is a gravity dam on the Lixian River, bordering the counties of Luchun and Jiangcheng in Yunnan Province, China. The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation and it supports a 165 MW power station. Construction began in 2003 and in 2008 the three 55 MW generators were commissioned. It is the last in a cascade of seven dams on the Lixian.

See also

List of dams and reservoirs in China
List of major power stations in Yunnan

References

Dams in China
Hydroelectric power stations in Yunnan
Gravity dams
Dams completed in 2008
Dams on the Black River (Asia)
Roller-compacted concrete dams
Buildings and structures in Pu'er
Buildings and structures in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture
MAI Kvant. 

The MAI Kvant (also known as the MAI-SKB-3PM) was a Soviet aerobatic trainer designed by students at the Moscow Aviation Institute. In October 1967 the aircraft was displayed at the Economic Achievement Exhibition in Moscow. The Kvant was a single-seat low-wing monoplane with a retractable main landing gear and a fixed tailwheel. It was powered by a  Vedeneyev M14P radial engine. The aircraft held five official FAI world records.

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1960s Soviet military trainer aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aerobatic aircraft
Ceramic building material. Ceramic building material, often abbreviated to CBM, is an umbrella term used in archaeology to cover all building materials made from baked clay. It is particularly, but not exclusively, used in relation to Roman building materials. 

It is a useful and necessary term because, especially when initially found in archaeological excavation, it may be difficult to distinguish, for example, fragments of bricks from fragments of roofing or flooring tiles. However, ceramic building materials are usually readily distinguishable from fragments of ceramic pottery by their rougher finish.

See also

Further reading

External links
Current Archaeology Archaeological Ceramic Building Materials Group
South Oxfordshire Archaeological Group Ceramic Building Material Recording (Introduction)

Archaeological artefact types
Ceramic materials
Soil-based building materials
Bricks
Combi. Combi may refer to:

 Gianpiero Combi, an Italian footballer
 Combi aircraft, aircraft designed to carry both passengers and freight
 Combi boiler, a kind of central heating boiler which is popular in Europe
 Combi (car style), also known as a station wagon or estate car
 Combi coupé, a term used by Saab for some of its hatchback automobile models
 Combi steamer, an oven type used for baking with dry heat, steam heat, or a combination of both to yield humidity control
 Kia Combi or Asia Combi, a series of mini-buses built from 1983 to 2002
 Truvelo Combi, a model of camera used to measure vehicle speed

See also 

 Combo (disambiguation)
 Kombi (disambiguation)
Ionian Adriatic Pipeline. The Ionian Adriatic Pipeline (IAP) is a proposed natural gas pipeline in Southeast Europe. It would run from Fier in Albania through Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, to Split in Croatia.

In Fier, IAP would be connected with the Trans Adriatic Pipeline. Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG has signed memorandums of understanding with developers of the IAP project, including Plinacro (Croatia), BH-Gas (Bosnia and Herzegovina), and governments of Montenegro and Albania.

In Split, the pipeline would be connected with the existing gas transmission system of Croatia. In addition, it may be connected with other new gas infrastructure, including the Krk LNG terminal in Krk.

The length of pipeline would be .  The pipeline would be bi-directional and its capacity would be  of natural gas per year.

The gas pipeline nominal diameter is 800 mm, and the operating pressure is 85/75 bar.

The ministerial declaration on the IAP project was signed on 25 September 2007 in the framework of the Energy Community.

Feasibility Study is drawn up, Designing Phase is in progress, Commissioning is planned in 2025/2026. In August 2016 in Dubrovnik the Ministerial Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation concerning the cooperation and implementation of IAP was signed among Albania, Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In accordance with the Memorandum the Project Management Unit (PMU) was established to carry out activities on the project. The members of PMU are representatives of the relevant Ministries and TSOs, and members of SOCAR In February 2018 at the meeting of the Ministerial Council of the Southern Gas Corridor a Letter of Intent was signed on establishing an IAP Project Company among TSOs of IAP relevant countries. The establishing of IAP company is in progress.

See also

New European Transmission System
 Adriatic–Ionian motorway

References

Natural gas pipelines in Albania
Natural gas pipelines in Montenegro
Natural gas pipelines in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Natural gas pipelines in Croatia
Proposed pipelines in Europe
Albania–Croatia relations
Albania–Bosnia and Herzegovina relations
Albania–Montenegro relations
Bosnia and Herzegovina–Croatia relations
Bosnia and Herzegovina–Montenegro relations
Croatia–Montenegro relations