omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Orbit Attitude and Maneuvering System. The Orbit Attitude and Maneuvering System (OAMS) was a reaction control system used in Earth orbit by the Project Gemini spacecraft. It provided both automatic and manual rotation and translation by means of 16 vernier thrusters using hypergolic propellants.

Operations
The OAMS had 16 small, fixed-position, fixed-thrust rocket engines which burned hypergolic propellants (monomethylhydrazine fuel using nitrogen tetroxide as oxidizer) fed under pressure from a pair of tanks located in the aft Equipment Module. 
Besides providing attitude control, the OAMS provided for linear up, down, sideways, forward or aft translation of the spacecraft. This gave the spacecraft the capability to change its orbit, required for space rendezvous and docking with another spacecraft, the Agena Target Vehicle.
The system was also used to push the spacecraft away from the spent second stage of the Titan II launch vehicle on first reaching orbit.

The eight rotational control engines were mounted off the spacecraft's center of mass around the aft section of the Equipment Module, pointed at 90 degree positions up, down, left and right. These were rated at  thrust and fired in pairs, causing it to yaw, pitch, or roll to control attitude.
Six of the translational control engines were mounted on the side of the Retrorocket Module, near the spacecraft's center of mass. Four of these were rated at  thrust, one each pointed up, down, left or right. The other two were pointed forward, at the three o'clock and nine o'clock positions, to provide aft thrust. These were rated at  (reduced from the original spec of  in July 1962).
The two  thrust forward translation control engines were mounted on the inside of the aft end of the equipment adapter, at the twelve o'clock and six o'clock positions.

Project Mercury astronauts could only adjust yaw, pitch, or roll, but Gemini crewmen had full manual control over their flight path. Walter Schirra said that on Gemini 6 "I was amazed at my ability to maneuver. I did a fly-around inspection of Gemini 7, literally flying rings around it, and I could move to within inches of it in perfect confidence". Because there is no turbulence in space "It was like the Blue Angels at 18,000 miles per hour, only it was easier".

Events
During Gemini 8, on March 16, 1966, OAMS engine number 8 became stuck on, resulting in uncontrollable spinning of the spacecraft. The entire OAMS had to be shut down and the mission was terminated prematurely. This resulted in modifications to OAMS to permit engine isolation.

References

 On Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini 

Project Gemini
Spacecraft attitude control
Chrysler Firepower. The Chrysler Firepower was a Dodge Viper-based concept car produced in 2005. It takes some of the styling cues from the Chrysler Crossfire. According to Chrysler, its 6.1 L Hemi V8 engine produced  and could propel the vehicle to a 0-60 mph time of 4.5 seconds and had a top speed of 174 mph. The concept was once featured on the cover of Car and Driver.

Designers responsible for the design were Brian Nielander (exterior), who also worked on the ME-412 concept; and Greg Howell (interior).

Plans for production 
The Firepower Concept was built to prove that Chrysler could indeed build a hybrid car using existing hardware. Signs early in 2006 pointed to the Firepower going into production using the same hardware as the concept, but later that year Chrysler officially announced that the Firepower would not be produced, as they could not find a viable way of doing so.

Gallery

References

See also 
 "Chrysler gives us a look at Firepower Concept"

Firepower
Cadi. Cadi, CADI, or Cadí may refer to:

CADI:
 Cadi Company, Inc. Copper Alloy Manufacturer and distributor Naugatuck, CT
 Canadian Advanced Digital Ionosonde
 Career and Academic Development Institute, high school in Philadelphia
 Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute, an aircraft design institute located in Chengdu, China
 Club Aeronautique Delisle Incorporated, Canadian aircraft manufacturer

Cadi/Cadí:
 Cadi, Cadillac automobile
 Cadi, Welsh equivalent of Katherine
 Cadi Scientific, Singapore-based manufacturer of healthcare active RFID tags and systems
 Toponyms:
 Romansh name of Disentis Abbey and its territories, see Cadi (Surselva)
 Cadi (Phrygia), town and bishopric of ancient Phrygia
 Dharug name of Sydney and surrounds
 (El) Cadí or Cady (river), in SW Europe

See also
 Serra del Cadí, Spanish mountain range 
 Cady (disambiguation)
 Kadi (disambiguation)
 Kazi (disambiguation)
 Kady, a village in east-central Poland
 Kady (given name)
 Qadi or cadi, a magistrate or judge of a Shariʿa court
RAPTOR. RAPTOR (Reconnaissance Airborne Pod Tornado) was a reconnaissance pod used by the Royal Air Force on its fleet of Tornado GR.4A and GR.4 aircraft. RAPTOR was manufactured by the Goodrich Corporation, initially part of UTC Aerospace Systems, but now part of Collins Aerospace.

The RAPTOR contained a DB-110 reconnaissance sensor, an imagery data recording system and an air-to-ground data link system. The sensor is electro-optical and infrared, allowing day or night missions. The data link allows imagery to be exploited almost instantly.

DB-110 
DB-110 ('dual-band 110-inch focal length') was developed as an exportable derivative of the U-2's Senior Year Electro-Optical Reconnaissance System (SYERS-2). It represents a shift for airborne tactical reconnaissance systems from visible light, daylight-only film-based systems to dual-band day and night digital imaging with real-time downlinking. The DB-110 remains the only comparable LOROP (Long-Range Oblique Photography) pod to have been demonstrated in use on tactical aircraft.

DB-110 installations, such as RAPTOR, also include a reconnaissance mission planning system (RMPS). Planned missions produce route cards for a pilot's kneeboard, are downloaded to route planning systems on either the recon aircraft or AWACS aircraft and are placed on a PCMCIA card that is used to load the pod itself with sensor tasking information.

RAF use 

No. II (AC) Sqn and 13 Sqn were the RAF's two specialist Tornado reconnaissance units, but with the RAPTOR pod any GR4 squadron could undertake reconnaissance missions. The RAF procured eight RAPTOR units and two ground stations. RAPTOR achieved its operational debut during Operation Telic, the UK contribution to the 2003 Iraq War.

Other users 
RAPTOR was also used on Japanese OP-3C maritime reconnaissance aircraft. DB-110 pods have also been supplied for Polish F-16s in 2006 and Turkish F-16s in 2013. Saudi Arabia in 2012 became the tenth country to use the DB-110 and the first for F-15 carriage.

See also 
 Optical Bar Camera
 Itek KA-80

References

External links
 Gatwick, as seen from an RAF Raptor pod at a distance of 26 miles (42 km)

Infrared imaging
Military electronics of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom defence procurement
Hypalon. Hypalon is a chlorosulfonated polyethylene (CSPE) synthetic rubber (CSM) noted for its resistance to chemicals, temperature extremes,  and ultraviolet light. It was a product of DuPont Performance Elastomers, a subsidiary of DuPont. Hypalon as it is now known in the marine industry today is a remarketed version of the old Hypalon using an additional layer of neoprene (cr) so the new chemical formulation is csm/cr.

Chemical structure
Polyethylene is treated with a mixture of chlorine and sulfur dioxide under UV-radiation.  The product contains 20-40% chlorine. The polymer also contains a few percent chlorosulfonyl (ClSO2-) groups.  These reactive groups allow for vulcanization, which strongly affects the physical durability of the products.  An estimated 110,000 tons/y were produced in 1991.

Discontinuance
DuPont Performance Elastomers announced on May 7, 2009, that it intended to close its manufacturing plant in Beaumont, Texas, by June 30, 2009.  This was DPE's sole plant for CSM materials. The company was therefore exiting the business for Hypalon and its related product, Acsium. The plant closure was delayed until April 20, 2010, in response to customer requests.

References

Elastomers
Brand name materials
Condor (Argentine missile). The Argentine Condor missile was a multinational space research program started in the 1970s. It involved significant contract work being performed by German company MBB (now a group within Daimler AG), but later developed into a ballistic missiles program.

Condor I
The original Condor had little military capability but helped build expertise later used for the Alacrán missile program. The Alacrán program developed a functional short-range ballistic missile.

Specifications (Condor I) 
 Length: 
 Maximum diameter: 
 Stages: 1
 Fuel: HTPB
 Guidance system: inertial
 Apogee: 
 Range: 
 Payload:

Alacrán (Condor IAIII) 

The Alacrán missile was a short range ballistic missile derived from the Condor Missile Program.

Derived from the Condor IAIII prototype, the Alacrán missile had shorter stabilization fins, an inertial guidance system, and a 1000CAP1 cluster warhead.

Specifications (Condor IAIII - Alacrán) 
 Length: 
 Maximum diameter: 
 Stages: 1
 Fuel: HTPB
 Guidance system: inertial
 Apogee: 
 Range: 
 Warhead: 1000CAM1 cluster munition warhead,

Condor II

During and after the 1982 Falklands War (), France (which supplied missiles) placed an arms embargo on Argentina, causing the Argentine Air Force, under the command of Ernesto Crespo, to develop its own medium-range missile in the Condor II program.

This program was undertaken in close collaboration with Egypt, and then Ba'athist Iraq (the Iraqi version was called BADR-2000), however it was discontinued in the early 1990s by President Carlos Menem because of political pressure from the United States. The missile was developed in Falda del Carmen, Córdoba Province.

The Condor missile had a range of 800 km to 1,000 km and a 1000CAP1 500 kg cluster munition warhead.

In 1997, the Argentine Air Force reported to the US Congress that it still possessed two of the missiles that were to be destroyed.

Condor III
There have been reports of a Condor III program. The Condor III would have an increased range to some  with the same payload as the Condor II.

See also
Argentina and weapons of mass destruction

References

External links
 Condor 1-AIII

Sounding rockets of Argentina
Space programme of Argentina
Short-range ballistic missiles
Guided missiles of Argentina
Abandoned military projects of Argentina
Cancelled spacecraft
Argentina–Germany relations
Argentina–Egypt relations
Integrated Facility for Linux. The Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) is an IBM mainframe and Power Systems processor dedicated to running the Linux operating system. On IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE machines, IFLs can be used with or without hypervisors such as z/VM and KVM. IFLs are one of three most common types of "specialty" IBM mainframe processors that give software vendors (and their customers) more granular control over software licensing and maintenance costs. (The other most common specialty processors are  and ICFs). Microcode restricts IFLs to Linux workload by omitting some processor instructions not used by the Linux kernel (that other operating systems use), but the underlying processors are physically identical to general purpose processors (CPs). When IBM adds features and performance improvements to its mainframes' general purpose main processors (which can also run Linux), those features and improvements nearly always apply equally to IFLs. In fact, in recent IBM Z machines IFLs support simultaneous multithreading, a feature not available for general purpose processors.

IBM announced IFLs on August 1, 2000, and started shipping them on September 29, 2000. At the same time, IBM introduced a special Linux-only, VM-like product called the S/390 Virtual Image Facility for Linux to cater to IT staff previously unfamiliar with IBM mainframes. IBM soon discovered that z/VM was not too difficult for new IT staff to learn (and worked better), so IBM withdrew S/390 Virtual Image Facility for Linux from marketing on April 30, 2002.

Customers could purchase IFLs for all IBM mainframes as far back as the  G5 series and can purchase IFLs for all recent IBM Z and LinuxONE machine models. IFLs also support select IBM software appliances such as the IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator, zAware, and z/VSE Network Appliance, and they also supported the Z port of the now abandoned OpenSolaris operating system. Fujitsu and Hitachi also offered IFLs on certain models of their machines.

On Power Systems IFLs are also specially priced for both the processors and many software products.

See also 

 Linux on IBM Z

External links 

 IBM IFL
 Power IFL

References

IBM mainframe technology
Server hardware
Meikle. Meikle may refer to:

People:
Adrian Meikle, Welsh curler
Andrea Meikle (née Crowther) (born 1963), former association football player who represented New Zealand at international level
Andrew Meikle (1719–1811), Scottish mechanical engineer credited with inventing the threshing machine
Andrew Meikle Bryan (1893–1988), Scottish mining engineer
Carola Ivena Meikle (née Dickinson), British algologist, or anaesthetist with speciality training in pain management
George Meikle Kemp (1795–1844), Scottish carpenter/joiner, draughtsman, and self-taught architect
Hugh Meikle (1940–2016), Welsh curler and coach
Izzy Meikle-Small (born 1996), British actress who has appeared in feature films and TV shows
Jamie Meikle, Welsh curler
Jeffrey L. Meikle, American cultural historian
John James Meikle (1845–1937), New Zealand farmer and litigant
John Meikle VC MM (1898–1918), Scottish World War I recipient of the Victoria Cross
John Meikle (Saskatchewan politician) (1870–1964), Scottish-born farmer and political figure in Saskatchewan
Lindon Meikle (born 1988), English professional footballer
Orde Meikle (born 1964), member of DJ duo Slam, with Stuart MacMillan (born 1966); co-founders of Soma Quality Recordings
Richard Meikle (1929–1991), Australian actor who worked in film, theatre, film and radio
Robert Desmond Meikle (1923–2021), Irish botanist from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Robert Greenshields Meikle (1830–1887), merchant and political figure in Quebec
Ryan Meikle (born 1996), English professional darts player
Sam Meikle (born 1971), Australian writer and director best known for his work in television
Thomas Meikle (1861–1939), Scottish-born businessman and pioneer in Rhodesia

Places:
Meikle Auchengree, hamlet near Kilbirnie and Longbar in North Ayrshire, Scotland
Meikle Bin, peak in the Kilsyth Hills in Scotland
Meikle Carewe Hill, landform in Aberdeenshire, Scotland in the Mounth Range of the Grampian Mountains
Meikle Earnock, medium-sized suburb in the south of Hamilton, Scotland
Meikle Loch, in Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland
Meikle Millyea, a mountain in South West Scotland
Meikle Pap, a mountain in North East Scotland
Meikle Says Law in the Lammermuir Hills (An Lomair Mòr in Gaelic) in southern Scotland
Meikle Wartle, small rural village in north-east of Scotland

See also
Meike (disambiguation)
Meikles
Meile (disambiguation)
Mikl (disambiguation)
Intelligent Peripheral Interface. Intelligent Peripheral Interface (IPI) was a server-centric storage interface used in the 1980s and early 1990s with an ISO-9318 standard. designed for mainframe computers from IBM, Control Data Corporation, and Unisys. It replaced Storage Module Device (SMD) as the hard disk drive interface for very large hard disks.

The idea behind IPI is that the disk drives themselves are as simple as possible, containing only the lowest level control circuitry, while the IPI interface card encapsulates most of the disk control complexity.  The IPI interface card, as a central point of control, is thus theoretically able to best coordinate accesses to the connected disks, as it "knows" more about the states of the connected disks than would, say, a SCSI interface.

IPI supports cable lengths up to . An IPI-2 bus can provide a data transfer rate in the vicinity of 6 MB/s.

In practice, the theoretical advantages of IPI over SCSI were often not realized, as they only materialized when several disks were connected to the interface, which could then easily become a bandwidth bottleneck.

IPI systems were often shipped by Sun Microsystems on original sun4 architecture servers, but the above limitation and reliability problems made them unpopular with customers, and the technology basically disappeared by the second half of the 1990s.

See also
Enhanced Small Disk Interface (ESDI)
SCSI

References

Computer storage buses
Interfaces
IPI. IPI or ipi may refer to:

Science and technology
 International Prognostic Index, a medical tool used in oncology to predict the outcome of lymphoma patients
 International Protein Index, a database covering information about the proteomes of humans, mice and other animals
 Integrated Pulmonary Index, a single value that describes the patient's respiratory status
 Inter-processor interrupt, a mechanism used between processors to maintain a sort of synchronization
 Intelligent Peripheral Interface, a technology for connecting storage devices to computers

Organizations
 Illinois Policy Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Illinois
 Image Permanence Institute, an organization dedicated to scientific research in the preservation of recorded information
 Imperial Pacific International, a former food manufacturer and gambling holding company
 Indian Political Intelligence, the latter name of the former intelligence organisation Indian Political Intelligence Office
 Institute for Private Investors, a private membership organization that provides peer-to-peer networking and investor education
 Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation, a research institute, part of the consortium of institutes operating under the aegis of Leibniz University situated in Hannover, Germany
 International Peace Institute, a research and policy development institution
 International Press Institute, a journalism organization
 Inter-parliamentary institution, a type of parliamentary assembly
 Intellectual Property Institute (United Kingdom), a UK non-profit organization
 Irish Planning Institute, a professional body
 Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, a Swiss federal agency

People
 Ipi (vizier), Ancient Egyptian vizier
 Ipi Morea (born 1975), Papua New Guinean cricketer
 Faqir of Ipi (born 1897), Pashtun tribal leader from Waziristan

Other uses
 Industrial Production Index, an economic indicator
 Interested Parties Information, a unique identifying number assigned to each Interested Party in collective rights management
 International Payment Instruction a uniform European payment receipt
 Inwald Personality Inventory, a personality test
 Income protection insurance, an insurance policy paying benefits to policyholders who are unable to work due to illness or accident
 Ipili language (ISO 639 code: ipi)
 San Luis Airport (Colombia) (IATA code IPI)

See also
 Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS)
Kew Railway Bridge. Kew Railway Bridge spans the River Thames in London, England, between Kew and Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick. The bridge was opened in 1869.

History
The bridge, which was given Grade II listed structure protection in 1983, was designed by W. R. Galbraith and built by Brassey & Ogilvie for the London and South Western Railway. The bridge is part of an extension to the latter company's railway line from Acton Junction to Richmond. 

In 1964, the north arch under Kew Railway Bridge was acquired by Strand on the Green Sailing Club, and was rented from British Rail and then from Network Rail.

Design
It consists of five wrought iron lattice girder spans of 35 metres each. The cast iron piers are decorated in three stages. During the Second World War a pillbox was built to guard it on the south end, along with an open enclosure to fire an anti-tank gun from. 

The bridge carries two tracks which are electrified with both third rail and London Underground-style fourth rail. It is now owned by Network Rail and used by London Overground for North London line passenger trains running between Richmond and Stratford. The same tracks are also used by London Underground's District line trains running between Richmond and Upminster.

In fiction
In The Dalek Invasion of Earth, a 1964 serial from the BBC's Doctor Who, the TARDIS materialises under the bridge; it is trapped when the bridge collapses.

A District line train can be seen crossing the bridge in the 1965 film Four in the Morning.

See also 
Crossings of the River Thames
List of lattice girder bridges in the United Kingdom
List of bridges in London

References

External links
 

1869 establishments in England
Bridges completed in 1869
Bridges across the River Thames
Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Hounslow
Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
Grade II listed bridges in London
Kew, London
Lattice truss bridges
London Overground
Railway bridges in London
Transport in the London Borough of Hounslow
Transport in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
Rib (disambiguation). A rib is a bone attached to the spine, in vertebrate animals.

Rib, ribs or RIB may also refer to:

Anatomy
 Rib or costa, the leading edge of an insect wing (See Glossary of entomology terms)
 Rib, an angulated vertical line on the stem of cactus

Construction
 Rib (aeronautics), a longitudinal structural member in an aircraft wing responsible for maintaining its curvature.
 Rib (nautical), a lateral structural member connected to the keel between gunwales
 Rib, one type of transverse member in boat building
 Rib, a grooved/textured surface found on firearm barrels to improve target aqquisition.
 Rib, any slender molded masonry arch projecting from a surface, particularly as part of an architectural vault
 Rib vault, a type of architectural vault in which the ribs are built first
 The sides of a violin or a guitar
 The sides of a tunnel

Acronyms
 RIB for Rigid inflatable boat, also rigid-hull inflatable boat or rigid-hulled inflatable boat
 RenderMan Interface Bytestream in 3D graphics
 Romanian International Bank
 Routing information base in computer networking 
 RIB Software, a German company 
 Roman Inscriptions of Britain, an archaeological reference book
 Retirement Insurance Benefits from the United States Social Security Administration
 Rwanda Investigation Bureau, law enforcement in Rwanda 
 Ryukyu Islands Boy Scouts, Japan 
 Renault Industrie Belgique, a Belgian plant of the Renault concern
 Remote Insight Board, for HP Integrated Lights-Out remote system management protocols

Music
 R.I.B. (album), a 2014 release by German metal band Tankard
 Razed in Black, an industrial music group
 Reign in Blood, an album by thrash metal band, Slayer
 Ribs (band) an American space rock/grime band
 "Ribs" (song) a 2013 song by Lorde from her album Pure Heroine

Other uses
 Ribs (food), the cooked meat and rib bones of a food animal
 Rib (professional wrestling), a practical joke
 A type of escarpment seen in rib and groove topography
 A stitch pattern in knitting
 A tool used for shaping or smoothing pottery
 A type of fabric with closely woven yarn
 Ribs (recordings), gramophone recordings made from X-ray films
 Ribs Raney (1923–2003), American baseball pitcher nicknamed "Ribs"