omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Sumi Helal. Dr. Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal is a computer scientist who was born in Suez, Egypt. He graduated from Alexandria University in 1982. He is best known for his work in  Pervasive Computing, Mobile computing and the Internet of Things, and their human-centric applications in the domains of aging, personal health and disability. He is a professor at the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department (CISE) at the University of Florida and the director of its Mobile and Pervasive Computing Laboratory 

Dr. Helal currently serves as the editor-in-chief of IEEE Computer. He was an Associate Editor in Chief and an editorial board member of the IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine. He has published extensively (Google Scholar), and founded four successful startups. His detailed profile can be found here

Projects
Professor Helal has worked as a principal investigator on several projects funded by public and private research institutes including the National Science Foundation, the Department of Education, the National Institute of Health, IBM, Microsoft, Motorola, Intel, Sun Microsystems, and ETRI among others. These funded projects are mainly focused on peer to peer mobile computing models, mobile database design, access and transactions, mobile networks and commerce, power-awareness in computing, among others.

Patents

Professor Helal has filled several patents some of which are published (available from here) and others are issued (available from here)

Selected bibliography

References

3. "Software Foundation for Critical Pervasive Computing" - Information Technologies and Electronics International Congress Digit 2007 (Conference in Puebla, Mexico).

Ubiquitous computing researchers
Living people
University of Florida faculty
Alexandria University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Great Lakes BG. The Great Lakes BG was an American carrier-based dive bomber of the 1930s. Designed and built by the Great Lakes Aircraft Company of Cleveland, Ohio, 61 were used by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps from 1934 to 1940.

Development and design
The Great Lakes Aircraft Company, who had previously built 18 TG-1 and 32 TG-2 variants of the Martin T4M, received an order from the U.S. Navy for a prototype two seat dive bomber capable of carrying a 1,000 lb (454 kg) bomb in 1933. (This compared with contemporary Scout Bombers such as the Vought SBU and the Curtiss SBC Helldiver, also capable of dive bombing, which had  bombloads of 500 lb (227 kg)).

The resulting design was a single engined biplane with single bay, unequal span tapered wings and a fixed tailwheel undercarriage. The aircraft was powered by a  Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp Junior radial engine.

The prototype XBG-1 was completed in mid-1933 and evaluated against the competing Consolidated XB2Y-1, proving superior. As a result, in November 1933, orders were placed for production of the aircraft as the BG-1, which was fitted with a canopy over the cockpits for the two crew, in place of the open cockpits of the prototype. A total of 61 of these aircraft were built, including the prototype.

Operational history

The BG-1 entered service in October 1934, equipping VB-3B (later re-designated VB-4) aboard the carriers  and . It was also operated by the Marine Corps, equipping two squadrons from 1935.

The BG-1 continued in front line use with the Navy until 1938, and with the Marines Corps until 1940. It was used for utility duties at shore bases until June 1941. About 22 were converted to target drones for naval anti-aircraft gunnery, with one being used to test TV-guidance for air-to surface missiles, and was successfully guided by signals from a Beechcraft JRB to hit a target raft on Chesapeake Bay on 19 April 1942.

Variants

XBG-1
Prototype. Open cockpit and powered by a Pratt & Whitney R-1535-64 radial engine, one built.
BG-1
Production version with enclosed cockpit and powered by a Pratt & Whitney R-1535-82 radial engine, 60 built.
XB2G-1
Developed version with retractable undercarriage and an enclosed bomb bay. One prototype only.

Operators

United States Marine Corps
VB-4M / VMB-2 - March 1935 to December 1940
VB-6M / VMB-1 - October 1935 to October 1940
VMO-1 - September 1940 to May 1941
VMS-1 - December 1938 to June 1941
VMS-2 - December 1940 to April 1941
United States Navy
VB-3B / VB-4 - November 1934 to June 1939
VB-7 - July 1939 to August 1940

Specifications (BG-1)

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography
 
 
 
 
 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982–1985), 1985, Orbis Publishing.

External links

Great Lakes Aerofiles.

B01G
Great Lakes BG1
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Carrier-based aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1933
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Single-engined piston aircraft
Fairchild 91 Baby Clipper. The Fairchild 91, (a.k.a. A-942), was a single-engine eight-passenger flying boat airliner developed in the United States in the mid-1930s.

Design
Fairchild designed the aircraft in response to a Pan American Airways request for a small flying boat to operate on their river routes along the Amazon and Yangtze. The result was a conventional high-wing cantilever monoplane with its radial engine mounted above the wing in a streamlined nacelle. Before construction of the prototype was complete, however, Pan American no longer required the aircraft to operate in China, and Fairchild optimised the design for the Brazilian tropics.

Operational history
After the first two aircraft were delivered, Pan American cancelled the remaining four aircraft of its order, as they no longer needed any for China, and the two aircraft were capable of handling the Amazon River.

The sole A-942-B was specially built for the American Museum of Natural History and was used by naturalist Richard Archbold on his second expedition to Papua New Guinea in 1936–1937.

The prototype was sold to the Spanish Republican Air Force, but the ship carrying it was captured by the Spanish Nationalists and was used by them until 1941.

The A-942 bought by industrialist Garfield Wood was sold to the British American Ambulance Corps before being transferred to the RAF, who operated it in Egypt for air-sea rescue.

One exampled was sold to the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service for evaluation, but it was wrecked shortly after delivery, so a second example was purchased to replace it.

Variants
Fairchild 91 Baby Clipper
Initial version built to Pan Am specifications for use on rivers, powered by a  Pratt & Whitney S2EG Hornet. Six built.
Fairchild A-942-A
Alternative designation for the Fairchild 91
Fairchild 91B Jungle Clipper
Specially equipped for NYC Museum of Natural History, powered by a  Wright SGR-1820F-52 Cyclone. One built, NR777.
Fairchild A-942-B
Alternative designation for the Fairchild 91B.
Fairchild XSOK-1
Proposed U.S. Navy scout; none built.
Fairchild LXF
Two A-942Bs supplied to the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service for evaluation.

Airframes

Specifications (A-942-A)

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

Taylor, Michael J.H. . Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. Studio Editions. London. 1989.  
 
 

1930s United States airliners
Flying boats
91
Single-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1935
Amphibious aircraft
Aircraft with retractable conventional landing gear
Single-engined piston aircraft
Single-pilot resource management. Single-pilot resource management (SRM) is defined as the art and science of managing all the resources (both on-board the aircraft and from outside sources) available to a single-pilot (prior and during flight) to ensure that the successful outcome of the flight is never in doubt. SRM includes the concepts of Aeronautical Decision Making (ADM), Risk Management (RM), Task Management (TM), Automation Management (AM), Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) Awareness, and Situational Awareness (SA). SRM training helps the pilot maintain situational awareness by managing the automation and associated aircraft control and navigation tasks. This enables the pilot to accurately assess and manage risk and make accurate and timely decisions.

SRM is an adaptation of crew resource management (CRM) training to single-pilot operations. The purpose of SRM is to reduce the number of aviation accidents caused by human error by teaching pilots about their own human limitations and how to maximize their performance. The initiative for this training began in 2005 when the NBAA published training guidelines for single-pilot operations of very light jets (VLJs). However, the application of SRM is not limited to VLJ pilots. This training applies to all single-pilot flights in general aviation (GA).

In the United States, GA accounts for 96% of aircraft, 60% of flight hours. It also accounts for 94% of fatal aviation accidents, Airline and military aviation estimates of the number of accidents caused by pilot error range from 70-80% - these are the statistics that SRM seeks to reduce.

5P Approach to SRM
A structured approach to SRM helps pilots learn to gather information, analyze it, and make sound decisions on the conduct of the flight. To get the greatest benefit from SRM, the single-pilot needs a practical framework for application in day-to-day flying. One such approach involves regular evaluation of: Plan, Plane, Pilot, Passengers, and Programming.

Training
The content of SRM is similar to that of CRM training, except the topics relating to pilot crews are excluded (ex. captain and co-pilot communication). Examples of topics included in SRM training are situational awareness, workload management, automation management, and aeronautical decision making.

The University of Western Ontario is a leader in SRM and is researching how to deliver SRM training online. A major research investigation at UWO recently proved that online SRM training improves pilot situational awareness. This investigation involved 36 licensed pilots completing SRM training followed by a performance evaluation in a high-fidelity Cessna 172 flight simulator.

See also

 Single pilot operations

References

Further reading 
 

Flight training
TCDD DH9500. TCDD DH9500 is a diesel-hydraulic locomotive operated by the Turkish State Railways (TCDD). A total of 26 units were delivered from 1999 by Tülomsaş. They are a hydraulic derivative of DE11000 delivered in the 1980s.

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Tülomsaş locomotives
B-B locomotives
DH 9500
Standard gauge locomotives of Turkey
Railway locomotives introduced in 1999
Fairchild 45-80 Sekani. The Fairchild 45-80 Sekani (named for an indigenous people of Canada) was a Canadian twin-engined transport aircraft developed in Canada in the late 1930s. Although the 45-80 was the largest bush plane developed by Fairchild, its poor performance doomed the project, and nearly the company.

Design and development
Designed by Fairchild (Canada) in the hope of attracting orders from the Royal Canadian Air Force and Canadian Airways,the 45-80 was an ambitious project, being the largest design yet attempted. The Sekani was a large sesquiplane of conventional configuration, with the sets of wings joined to the top and bottom of the fuselage and braced by N-struts. The lower set of wings were little more than stubs; their bracing to the upper wings passed through the engine nacelles (mounted on the upper wings), and they carried the pontoon undercarriage beneath them. Following typical Fairchild construction, the fuselage and empennage were made of fabric-covered welded steel tubing while the main wings were a combination of spruce spars and stainless steel ribs, also fabric covered. The "stub" wings were of heavy steel construction. The retractable undercarriage (a first for a Canadian designed aircraft) also featured streamlined fairings when the aircraft was equipped with skis.

Testing commenced in August 1937 and revealed a number of serious deficiencies in the design, including that the aircraft was overweight and impossible to control directionally when flying on only one engine as the ailerons caused severe drag tending to turn the aircraft in the opposite direction.

Operational history
The RCAF tested the 45-80 in October 1937, investigating its potential as a photographic platform, but ultimately rejecting it. Canadian Airways tests showed that the new design had a payload capacity no greater than the single-engine types that they were already operating. A second prototype was built, but the whole project was soon abandoned with the completed prototypes along with three unassembled production examples being scrapped.

Fairchild recovered from the financial disaster that was looming after the Sekani's cancellation when the company landed a lucrative contract to build Bristol Bolingbroke bombers as part of the shadow factory system that was set up to supply RAF needs.

Specifications

References

Notes

Bibliography
 "Canadian Convertible." Flight, 29 April 1937, p. 427. Retrieved: 9 March 2008. 
 Milberry, Larry. Aviation In Canada. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., 1979. .
 Molson, Ken M. and Taylor, Harold A. Canadian Aircraft Since 1909. Stittsville, Ontario: Canada's Wings, Inc., 1982. .

 Taylor, Michael J.H. Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions, 1989, p. 354.

External links
 Fairchild 45-80 Sekani (CF-BHD c/n 101)
680   Fairchild 45-80 Sekani, FliegerWeb.com, in German but a lot of technical data and pictures

1930s Canadian airliners
45-80
Sesquiplanes
Floatplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1937
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Falconar AMF-S14 Super Maranda. 

The Falconar AMF-S14 Maranda is a two-seat, light aircraft first flown in Canada in 1961 and originally marketed for amateur construction by Falconar Avia.

Since the winding up of business by Falconar Avia in 2019, the plans are now sold by Manna Aviation.

Design
Based on the Adam RA-14 Loisirs, it is a conventional high-wing strut-braced monoplane with fixed, tailwheel undercarriage. The fuselage is wood construction with fabric covering with a folding wing. The pilot and single passenger sit side-by-side in a fully enclosed cabin. One example has been built as a floatplane with fiberglass covered wooden floats using Falconar plans. The airfoil employed is a NACA 23012.

Acceptable installed engine power ranges from .

Specifications (typical Super Maranda)

See also

References

External links
 Official website

1960s Canadian civil utility aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
AMF-S14
Aircraft first flown in 1961
Julia Reed. Julia Reed is a British television presenter.

Reed is best known as the co-presenter of the game show Robot Wars from 2000 to 2002. She took over the role from Philippa Forrester since Forrester was unable to participate in the programme due to pregnancy. Her role on the show was as the pit reporter who would speak to contestants about their robots before and after battles. In 2002, Forrester returned to the role.

Reed was also a reporter in the second series of the Robot Wars spin-off Techno Games in 2001. The show was presented by Jayne Middlemiss and would later be presented by Philippa Forrester, both of whom, like Reed, served as Robot Wars pit reporters.

Reed also hosted the interactive video games series Blam!!! in 2000, the Sky One game show Hi-Score in 2001, and the Channel 4 science programme SuperHuman in 2004.

Reed is a former Hampshire Under-18 fencing champion and she holds a first-class degree in psychology.

References

External links

Julia Reed at UKGameshows.com

British television presenters
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Bob Sikes Airport. Bob Sikes Airport , named for Robert L. F. Sikes, is a public-use airport located  northeast of the central business district of the city of Crestview in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States. The airport is publicly owned and supports a mix of general aviation and aerospace corporations performing modification work on military aircraft.  The airport sees frequent military training use by aircraft based at Eglin AFB, Duke Field, Hurlburt Field, NAS Pensacola, NAS Whiting Field and Fort Novosel.

In September 2022,  Gulf Air Group announced a $16 million expansion project for the airport that would include the construction of a new aircraft hangar complex. This facility would serve as the maintenance hub for the company's operations.

See also
 List of airports in Florida

References

External links

Airports in Florida
Transportation buildings and structures in Okaloosa County, Florida
Fanaero-Chile Chincol. 

The Fanaero-Chile Chincol (named for a South American sparrow) was a prototype trainer aircraft developed in Chile in 1955 for air force use. It was a conventional, low-wing cantilever monoplane of mixed construction, with fabric covered wooden wings and tail surfaces (making extensive use of Mañío, an indigenous wood). It was fitted with a fixed tailwheel undercarriage and was powered by a single  Continental O-470 air-cooled horizontally-opposed piston engine. The pilot and instructor sat in tandem, and were enclosed under a long canopy. The prototype Chincol made its maiden flight on 14 December 1955. The Chilean Air Force responded positively to the design, and placed an order for 50 machines. However, technical problems significantly delayed manufacture, and the order was cancelled before the aircraft were produced.

Specifications

References

External links
 Уголок неба

1950s Chilean military trainer aircraft
Chincol
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Fanaero-Chile. Fanaero-Chile was a Chilean aircraft manufacturer established as Fábrica Nacional de Aéronaves in 1953 at Los Cerrillos Airport, but which later moved to Rancagua. The firm developed a trainer for the Chilean Air Force, the Chincol, and although 50 were ordered, it was not able to complete the order. A prototype for a jet aircraft was abandoned when the company ceased operations in 1960.

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Aircraft manufacturers of Chile
Military vehicle manufacturers
Defence companies of Chile
Chilean companies established in 1953
1960 disestablishments in Chile
Defunct companies of Chile
Fission Product Pilot Plant. The Fission Product Pilot Plant, building 3515 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), was built in 1948 to extract radioactive isotopes from liquid radioactive waste.  It was formerly known as the 'ruthenium-106 tank arrangement'. It is a relatively small facility; the task of extracting radioactive isotopes later took place at a number of specialised buildings nearby.

References differ as to when the plant was built; 'radioactive waste management at ORNL' says that it was completed in 1957, the 1955 Annual Report has engineering drawings indicating that the building was fully designed in 1955, but other references suggest that there was a building on the site in 1948.

Contamination issues
The plant was extensively contaminated during operation, particularly by waste produced while flushing out the tanks inside for maintenance. Traces of human feces were found in the tanks.

End of life
Operations at FPPP ended in the early 1960s, and the plant was entombed in concrete up to 1.5 metres (5') thick; there was a proposal made in 1993 for dismantling the plant by robot from the inside, but it's not clear whether this was carried out.

References
http://www.osti.gov/bridge/purl.cover.jsp?purl=/392043-Fisb6G/webviewable/ A proposal for disposing of FPPP
Radioactive waste management at ORNL
1955 Annual Report on the radioisotope production programs at ORNL, pages 10 through 14 describe the 'F3P' lab.
Purposes of various buildings on the ORNL site

Buildings and structures in Roane County, Tennessee
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
International Centre for Geohazards. The International Centre for Geohazards (ICG) is a Norwegian, multidisciplinary research and educational institute, hosted at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI). According to the institute's website, ICG's research activities focus on the assessment, prevention and mitigation of geohazards, in which the latter is defined as a geological state that represents or has the potential to develop further in a situation leading to damage or uncontrolled risk. From this definition, it becomes clear that geohazards are widespread, both spatially and temporally, and are always related to geological conditions and processes in both offshore, coastal and onshore environments.

The International Centre for Geohazards was established in 2002, and is a collaboration between the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, NORSAR, the University of Oslo, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.

References

External links
International Centre for Geohazards (ICG)
Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI)

Earth science research institutes
Research institutes in Norway
Supermarine Sea Urchin. The Supermarine Sea Urchin was an unbuilt British racing biplane flying boat designed by the Supermarine Aviation Works to compete in the 1924 Schneider Trophy. It was to be a single seat biplane, powered by a Rolls-Royce Condor V-12 water-cooled engine buried in the fuselage, driving a pusher propeller mounted on the upper wing via geared shafts. It was abandoned without being built owing to problems with the engine and the transmission required to drive the propeller.

Specifications (Sea Urchin - estimated)

See also

References

Sources
 

1920s British sport aircraft
Flying boats
Sea Urchin
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Biplanes
Schneider Trophy
Mid-engined aircraft
Zdeněk Kovář. Zdeněk Kovář (26 January 1917, in Vsetín – 21 June 2004, in Zlín) was a renowned Czech industrial designer.

Life
Kovář trained as a shoemaker in Baťa's factory in Zlín, then as locksmith and later as engineer. He studied under prominent Czech sculptor Vincenc Makovský at Zlín's Art School from 1939 where he became interested in industrial design. He graduated there in 1943. He continued to work at Zlín for Baťa creating body designs for vertical drilling machines. In 1947 he founded an industrial design studio in the Zlín Technical College. From 1959 he taught at the Institute of Arts & Crafts in Prague. Kovář was also a sculptor. His industrial designs involved projects for scissor and tool handles, lever door handles, sewing machines, lathes, typewriters, film projectors, record players. His most well-known proposals are for the Tatra truck bodies for types T137 and T138 (1956–1958) and studies for the passenger car Tatra T603 (1954). His design for scissors handles in 1952 anticipated similar product designed products produced in the West, such as Olaf Backstrom's excellent scissors (1960), produced by Fiskars in 1967.

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1917 births
2004 deaths
People from Vsetín
Czech industrial designers