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Beriev Be-4. The Beriev Be-4 (originally designated KOR-2) was a reconnaissance flying boat built to operate from Soviet warships during World War II.

Design and development
In 1939, Beriev was ordered to develop a successor to the KOR-1 design, which would overcome the numerous problems encountered in operational experience with that design. The new aircraft, with the in-house designation KOR-2, first flew on 21 October 1940 at the Beriev factory in Taganrog.

The Be-4 was an elegant, parasol-winged monoplane with a slight inverse-gull wing. The large radial engine was mounted in a nacelle above the fuselage.

Testing continued through January 1941, when series production was ordered under the designation Be-4, at a factory near Moscow. However, due to the start of World War II, only two aircraft were completed. The factory was dismantled, and evacuated to Omsk, then to Krasnoyarsk, where production resumed in May 1943 to the end of 1945. A total of 47 aircraft were eventually completed.

Operational history
The Be-4 was placed into operational service with the Russian Black Sea Fleet from 1942, where it was used for coastal reconnaissance, anti-submarine and transport duties. It was also used on the cruisers Maxim Gorki and Kirov.

Operators

Soviet Naval Aviation

Specifications

See also

References

External links

  Beriev KOR 2 Be 4 at Century of Flight
  Be-4, KOR-2 by G.M.Beriev  at Russian Aviation Museum

Be-0004
1940s Soviet military reconnaissance aircraft
Flying boats
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Parasol-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1940
Inverted gull-wing aircraft
Jühnde. Jühnde is a municipality in the south of the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Recently, the village has come to be known as the first so-called "bio energy village" in Germany. Since autumn 2005, the heat and electricity supplies for the village have been entirely harnessed from waste products collected from the surrounding fields, by feeding them into a one-of-a-kind biogas plant.

References

Göttingen (district)
Blackburn B-3. The Blackburn B-3 was a prototype British torpedo bomber designed and built by Blackburn Aircraft as a potential replacement for the Ripon. It was unsuccessful, with only the two prototypes being built.

Design and development
In 1930, the British Air Ministry issued Specification M.1/30 for a carrier-based torpedo bomber to replace the Ripon, to be powered by the Rolls-Royce Buzzard or Armstrong Siddeley Leopard engines.  Prototypes were ordered from Blackburn, Handley Page and Vickers. The Blackburn design was a single-bay biplane, with a fabric-covered steel tube fuselage, powered by a Buzzard engine. The prototype was flown first on 8 March 1932  and crashed in June 1933 following an engine failure.  Because it had been ordered by the Air Ministry, this machine carried an RAF serial (S1640) and was known throughout its life as the M.1/30, after the Specification.

Following relaxation of some of the specifications requirements, Blackburn constructed a second aircraft as a private venture, with a watertight metal monocoque fuselage replacing the previous steel tube fuselage, this first flying on 24 February 1933. Because it was a private venture it received and carried the Blackburn Class B civil test marking B-3 and was referred to as such, though it was also known as the M.1/30A. It performed poorly during testing, still being incapable of meeting the performance requirements of the specification even though they had been relaxed, and being too heavy for the carrier deck lifts. As none of the competitors for the specification could meet its requirements, the specification was cancelled, with no aircraft being ordered.

Specifications (M.1/30A)

See also

References

External links

 

1930s British bomber aircraft
M.1 30
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1932
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Single-engined piston aircraft
Wight Seaplane. The Wight Seaplane was a British twin-float seaplane produced by J Samuel White & Company Limited (Wight Aircraft). It was also known as the Admiralty Type 840.

Design and development
Designed by Howard T Wright and built by the aircraft department of the shipbuilding company J Samuel White & Company Limited, the Wight Seaplane was a slightly smaller version (61 ft (18.59 m) span) of the Wight Pusher Seaplane. The aircraft was a conventional two-float seaplane with tandem open cockpits and a nose-mounted 225 hp (168 kW) Sunbeam engine. Fifty-two aircraft were built and delivered, and an extra 20 were produced as spares production being undertaken by Portholme Aviation and William Beardmore & Co., Ltd.

Operational history
The Wight Seaplane served with the RNAS at Dundee Felixstowe, Scapa Flow and Gibraltar, being used for anti-submarine patrols between 1915 and 1917.

Operators

 Royal Navy
Royal Naval Air Service

Specifications (Seaplane)

See also

References

Wight aircraft
1910s British military reconnaissance aircraft
Floatplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1915
Wight Converted Seaplane. The Wight Converted Seaplane was a British twin-float patrol seaplane produced by John Samuel White & Company Limited (Wight Aircraft).

Design and development
Developed from the unsuccessful Wight Bomber for use as an anti-submarine patrol aircraft, the "Converted" Seaplane was a straightforward adaptation of the landplane bomber to a seaplane.  The aircraft was a three-bay biplane with unswept, unequal span, unstaggered wings.  It had twin floats under the fuselage and additional floats at tail and wings tips. Initial production aircraft were powered by a 322 hp Rolls-Royce Eagle IV engine mounted in the nose driving a four-bladed propeller, with later production batches being powered by a 265 hp (198 kW) Sunbeam Maori engine owing to shortages of Eagles.  Fifty were ordered for the RNAS, of which only 37 were completed.

Operational history
The Converted Seaplane entered service with the RNAS in 1917, operating from bases at Calshot, Dover, Portland and Cherbourg.  On 18 August 1917, a Wight Converted Seaplane flying from Cherbourg sank the German U-boat  with a single 100 lb bomb, the first submarine to be sunk in the English Channel by direct air action.  Seven remained in service with the RAF at the end of the First World War.

Operators

Royal Naval Air Service
Royal Air Force

Specifications (Seaplane – Eagle engine)

See also

References

External links

 Wight Converted Seaplane – British Aircraft Directory

Wight aircraft
1910s British military reconnaissance aircraft
Floatplanes
Biplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1916
InterSwitch Trunk. InterSwitch Trunk (IST) is one or more parallel point-to-point links (Link aggregation) that connect two switches together to create a single logical switch.  The IST allows the two switches to share addressing information, forwarding tables, and state information, permitting rapid (less than one second) fault detection and forwarding path modification. The link may have different names depending on the vendor. For example, Brocade calls this an Inter-Chassis Link (ICL). Cisco calls this a VSL (Virtual Switch Link).

Edge switches, servers or PCs see the two aggregate switches as one large switch.  This allows any vendor's equipment configured to use the IEEE 802.3ad static link aggregation protocol to connect to both switches and take advantage of load balancing, redundant connections.

The IST protocol was developed by Nortel (now acquired by Avaya, which is now acquired by Extreme Networks) to enhance the capabilities of Link aggregation,   and is required to be configured prior to configuring the SMLT, DSMLT or R-SMLT functions on the two aggregate (core, distribution, or access) switches.  The edge equipment can be configured with any of the following; Multi-Link Trunking (MLT), DMLT, IEEE 802.3ad static link aggregation, IEEE 802.3ad Static Gigabit EtherChannel (GEC), IEEE 802.3ad Static Fast EtherChannel (FEC), SMLT, DSMLT, and other static link aggregation protocols.

Patent
United States Patent 7173934

Product support
IST is supported on Nortel's Routing Switch 1600, 5000, 8300,  ERS 8600, MERS 8600 products and also on Avaya's Virtual Services Platform VSP 7000 and VSP 9000.

See also
 Avaya
 Avaya Government Solutions

References

External links

 Designing a Resilient Network
 Passport 8600 Split Multi-Link Trunking
 Always on Networking

Avaya
Ethernet
Link protocols
Network architecture
Network topology
Nortel protocols
Wight Baby. The Wight Baby was a British single-seat seaplane fighter produced by John Samuel White & Company Limited (Wight Aircraft). Only three prototype aircraft were built.

Design and development
Designed by Howard T. Wright and built by the aircraft department of the shipbuilder J. Samuel White & Company Ltd., the Wight Baby was a single-bay biplane with ailerons on the top wings only and a fabric-covered wooden fuselage. It was powered by a 100 hp (75 kW) Gnome Monosoupape rotary engine driving a four-bladed propeller. Three prototypes were constructed (Nos. 9097, 9098 and 9099), and service trials were undertaken at the Seaplane Experimental Station at Felixstowe and also at the Isle of Grain, but the aircraft's performance was not good enough for any further development work or volume production to be carried out.

Specifications (Baby)

See also

References

Wight aircraft
Floatplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Rotary-engined aircraft
Wight Pusher Seaplane. The Wight Pusher Seaplane, or Navyplane, was a British twin-float patrol seaplane produced by John Samuel White & Company Limited (Wight Aircraft).

Design and development

Designed by Howard T Wright, the Pusher Seaplane was an enlarged version of the first successful product of the aircraft department of John Samuel White & Company Limited (Wight Aircraft), the Wight Seaplane No.2. The aircraft was an unequal-span pusher biplane with five-bay wings mounted on two long floats. It was powered by a single 200 hp (149 kW) Salmson Canton Unné water cooled radial engine. It was exhibited at the 1914 Olympia Air Show in March that year, and was first flown on 8 April. It exhibited good take-off, climb performance and endurance, with these properties giving rise to orders from both the British Royal Naval Air Service, who ordered three and the German Kaiserliche Marine, who also ordered three. The German aircraft were taken over by the British at the outbreak of the First World War.

Orders for a further seven Improved Navyplane Type A.I followed, these having a stronger airframe, folding wings and an 8 ft (2.4 m) greater wingspan, but retaining the Salmson engine. A further four aircraft were built powered by a 225 hp (168 kW) Sunbeam engine, known as the Improved Navyplane Type A.II.

Operational history
The Navyplanes were used for maritime reconnaissance missions over the North Sea, while four of the Improved Navyplanes were sent to the Dardanelles to serve in the Gallipoli Campaign. The four Sunbeam-powered aircraft proved unsuccessful owing to unreliability of the powerplant, and only saw limited use.

Operators

Royal Navy
Royal Naval Air Service

Specifications (Seaplane)

References

Wight aircraft
1910s British military reconnaissance aircraft
Floatplanes
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1914
GFF4. The GFF4 (Geschützte Führungs- und Funktionsfahrzeuge, Klasse 4: Protected Command and Functional Vehicles, Class 4), previously KMW Grizzly, is a medium weight MRAP armored personnel carrier, developed by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), designed for operation with the German Army based on the 6x6 Trakker chassis from Iveco adapted to meet the needs of the German Army. It is being developed under the direction of the German Ministry of Defence Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement (Bundesamt für Wehrtechnik und Beschaffung). 
The GFF4 is designed to meet the German Army's "Class 4" protected command and role-specific vehicles, with a gross vehicle weight of 25 tons, and transportable on the Airbus A400M aircraft. Currently, the German Army could use only the smaller 12.5 ton ATF Dingo 2 or the 33 ton Boxer MRAV.

Grizzly can carry 10 fully equipped troops, which exceeds by greater than 50% the 3 tons required by the German request for proposal (RFP). The vehicle is protected in all directions. The driver's station and crew compartment form an integral safety cell providing protection against improvised explosive devices (IEDs), projectiles, missiles and mines. The cell's frame also forms a rollcage. The engine compartment and transmission are armored to reduce the chance of a 'mobility kill' under attack.

KMW is offering the vehicle in several configurations, and since the design is based on a modular concept, a smaller 4x4 or larger 8x8 variant, with corresponding payloads are possible.

Operators

Current operators
: Unknown.
: 5 vehicles delivered from Italy (4x4 chassis variant from Iveco DV)
: Similar vehicle produced by Iveco DV with the 4x4 chassis variant. Called by Italian Army VTMM (Veicolo Tattico Medio Multiruolo; Medium Multirole Tactical Vehicles) "Orso" (Bear).  56 vehicles, 16 ambulance.

Military Vehicles of Similar Name
The KMW Grizzly, named after the North American Grizzly bear shares its name with several other military vehicles:
Blackwater USA Grizzly APC
AVGP Grizzly
Grizzly combat engineering vehicle, based on the M1 Abrams tank chassis

See also

References

External links
 Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GFF4  - Product Website of the manufacturer

Off-road vehicles
Armoured fighting vehicles of the post–Cold War period
Armoured personnel carriers of Germany
Wheeled armoured personnel carriers
Post–Cold War military vehicles of Germany
Iveco vehicles
Military vehicles introduced in the 2000s
Armoured personnel carriers of the post–Cold War period
Subwar 2050. Subwar 2050 is a futuristic 3D submarine simulator  computer game developed by Particle Systems, Michael Powell acting as the lead designer, and published by MicroProse Software, Inc.

Publication history
The game was released in 1993 for DOS and 1994 for Amiga and Amiga CD32. In 1994 an expansion pack, Subwar 2050: The Plot Deepens was released for DOS. Subwar 2050 was sold to Interplay Entertainment on 27 March 2009. In 2013 Subwar 2050 was released on Gog.com for XP/Vista/Windows 7 and is available for download.

Reception

Computer Gaming World in April 1994 said that "SubWar 2050 is a product with an identity crisis. It wants to incorporate sophisticated physical models of the type you'd expect from a true simulation, and yet it wants to have an action game's visuals and pace", citing its including thermal layers, making them "largely irrelevant" with visual-oriented combat, then only providing unsophisticated short-range torpedoes. In 1994, PC Gamer UK named SubWar 2050 the 18th best computer game of all time. The editors called it "a game that will appeal to almost everyone."

See also
 List of underwater science fiction works

References

External links

1993 video games
Amiga games
Amiga 1200 games
Amiga CD32 games
DOS games
MicroProse games
Naval video games
Particle Systems games
Science fiction video games
Submarine simulation video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Submarines in fiction
Games commercially released with DOSBox
Windows games
Video games scored by Allister Brimble
Interplay Entertainment games
Single-player video games
Video games set in the 2050s
Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award. The Applied Mechanics Award is an award given annually by the Applied Mechanics Division of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) "to an outstanding individual for significant contributions in the practice of engineering mechanics; contributions may result from innovation, research, design, leadership or education."  The Award is presented at the Applied Mechanics Annual Dinner at the ASME Congress.  In 2008, the Award was renamed to the Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award.

Nomination procedure  
A letter of nomination and several letters of support, along with any other supporting materials, should be sent by email to the chair of the executive committee of the Applied Mechanics Division.  See the list of current members of the committee.

Recipients
2021 – Ellen Kuhl
2020 – Narayana R. Aluru
2019 – Somnath Ghosh
2018 – Tayfun Tezduyar
2017 – Jiun-Shyan Chen
2016 – Andrea Prosperetti
2015 – James R. Barber
2014 – Glaucio Paulino
2013 – Guirong Liu
2012 – David J. Benson
2011 – Ken P. Chong, David K. Gartling
2010 – Yoichiro Matsumoto
2009 – Eugenio Oñate
2008 – Shih Choon Fong
2007 – Oscar W. Dillon
2006 – Lewis Wheeler
2005 – Carl Herakovich
2004 – Arthur Leissa
2003 – John O. Hallquist
2002 – David E. Newland
2001 – Dan Mote
2000 – Dick MacNeal
1999 – Karl Pister
1998 – John A. Swanson		
1997 – Richard Skalak
1996 – Sheila Widnall
1995 – Harry Armen
1994 – Siegfried S. Hecker
1993 – David Hibbit
1992 – William G. Gottengerg
1991 – George Abrahamson
1990 – Owen Richmond
1989 – Sam Levy
1988 – H. Norman Abramson

See also

 List of mechanical engineering awards
Applied Mechanics Division
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Applied mechanics
Mechanician

References

External links
Homepage of the ASME International Applied Mechanics Division

Awards of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award. The Special Achievement Award for Young Investigators in Applied Mechanics is an award given annually by the Applied Mechanics Division, of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).  The Award is presented at the Applied Mechanics Annual Dinner at the ASME Congress.  In 2008, this award was renamed to the Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award.

Nomination procedure  
A letter of nomination, several letters of support, along with any other supporting materials, should be sent by email to the chair of the Executive Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division.  Nominees must not have reached their 40th birthday at the time of nomination.  See the list of current members of the Award Committee

Recipients

2023 – Cunjiang Yu
2022 – Nanshu Lu and Shawn A. Chester
2021 – Sinan Keten
2020 – Xuanhe Zhao
2019 – Yihui Zhang
2018 – Liping Liu and Dennis Kochmann
2017 – José E. Andrade
2016 – Pedro Miguel Reis
2015 – Thao (Vicky) D. Nguyen
2014 – Katia Bertoldi and Ryan S. Elliott
2013 – Wei Cai
2012 – Yuri Bazilevs, Xi Chen and Kenji Takizawa
2011 – Markus J. Buehler and Ioannis Chasiotis
2010 – Harley T. Johnson
2009 – Pradeep Sharma
2008 – Chad Landis
2007 – Assad Oberai
2006 – Jian Cao
2005 – George Haller and L. Mahadevan
2004 – Kaushik Bhattacharya
2003 – L. Cate Brinson
2002 – None Presented
2001 – Zhigang Suo
2000 – Pedro Ponte-Castaneda
1999 – Huajian Gao
1998 – Mary C. Boyce

See also

 List of mechanical engineering awards
Applied Mechanics Division
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Applied mechanics
Mechanician

External links
Homepage of the ASME International Applied Mechanics Division

Awards of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Early career awards
Francis Wheeler Loomis. Francis Wheeler Loomis (August 4, 1889 – February 9, 1976), born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, was an American scientist most widely known for his contributions in the field of physics. Loomis received his undergraduate degree and, in 1917, his PhD from Harvard University. His thesis was on thermodynamic measurements of mercury.

Loomis was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1928 studying abroad at Zürich and Göttingen. In 1929, Loomis came to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to become the head of the department of physics, a position he would retain until 1957. Loomis was challenged in bringing top-notch physics talent to a university in the rural Midwest. When approached by Loomis to join his staff, Isidor Isaac Rabi stated bluntly "I love subways and I hate cows." While building the department, Loomis attracted two-time Nobel recipient John Bardeen to join the staff, and had 1955 Nobel Prize winner Polykarp Kusch as a graduate student. Loomis was elected president of the American Physical Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1949.

In World War I, Loomis served at the Aberdeen proving ground, where he was an Army Ordnance captain. During World War II, he was the associate head of the MIT Radiation Laboratory supporting the national defense and served a two-year period as the organizer of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory. The interruption of the war also required Loomis to restart his building of the physics department as two-thirds of the faculty he added in the 1930s moved elsewhere due to the many defense projects related to the war. Loomis founded the Control Systems Laboratory as a research center for national defense purposes during the Korean War. After the war ended and the work done there became unclassified, the facility was renamed the Coordinated Science Laboratory.

At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign the main physics building was renamed the Loomis Laboratory of Physics posthumously in his honor.

References

External links
National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir
F. Wheeler Loomis Papers, 1920–1976 at U. of Illinois Archives 

1889 births
1976 deaths
Harvard University alumni
University of Göttingen alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
20th-century American physicists
People from Parkersburg, West Virginia
Scientists from West Virginia
MIT Lincoln Laboratory people
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Presidents of the American Physical Society
1st Engineer Regiment (Jamaica). The 1 Engineer Regiment (JDF) is a unit of the Jamaica Defence Force primarily responsible for providing military and civil engineering. The regiment was formed in 1992 after a requirement was identified for increased military and civil engineering capability for the JDF than could be provided by the then existing structure. At the time, all JDF engineering capacity was provided by the Construction Squadron and the Engineering Unit of the Support and Services Battalion.

Composition 

The regiment today consists of a total of four distinct sub-units:

 2 Field Squadron - this is the primary combat engineering unit, with responsibility for the use of explosives in both demolition and for training purposes.
 3 Construction Squadron - this provides engineering for use in the construction of permanent structures for the military and for various agencies of government.
 4 Support Squadron - this provides administrative and logistic support to the regiment.
 5 Maintenance Squadron - this is the maintenance unit for all JDF properties.

Directives 

The regiment's primary purpose is to provide military engineering support to the JDF, and to assist as required agencies of the government when so directed by HQ JDF. As such, it has a number of specific priorities:

 Combat engineering support of all JDF units in military operations and training.
 Planning, construction and maintenance of all JDF installations.
 Assistance with the maintenance of technical essential services on a national basis, including the ongoing operation of the Jamaica Public Service Company Rockfort diesel station (power plant).
 Emergency engineering assistance for Disaster Relief and Recovery.
 Engineering assistance or advice to Government and civil agencies.
 Any other functions as directed by the Force Headquarters.

References

Regiments of Jamaica
Military units and formations established in 1992
1990s establishments in Jamaica