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Bill Langan. Michael William Langan, (Bill Langan), (June 9, 1955 – December 31, 2010) was an American yacht designer who practiced his trade in New York City and Newport, Rhode Island. His designs, both as chief designer at Sparkman & Stephens and later as the principal at Langan Design, numbered in the hundreds.

Career
Having obtained his engineering degree at Webb Institute he was accepted for an internship at Sparkman & Stephens. Noticed by Olin Stephens he was hired shortly after his graduation, named in 1980 by Olin as chief designer, a position he held until his departure in 1996.

In 1997 Bill set up his own Langan Design firm in Newport, RI which he ran until his death at the end of 2010, afterwards owned and operated by his former associates.

Designs
Bill Langan was responsible for the design of hundreds of vessels of all sizes, including:

At Sparkman & Stephens

 Freedom, winner of the 1980 America's Cup
 America II 
 Itasca, refit in 1994. Owned by Bill Simon, former  Secretary of the Treasury of the U.S., Itasca was the first private yacht to complete the traverse of the Northwest Passage in a single season. Bill Langan was on board for the trip.
 Victoria of Strathearn, 91' ketch 

At Langan Design

 Victoria of Strathearn, 130' ketch 
 Sagamore, Line honors, Bermuda Race 2000
 Argo 
 Spirit of Bermuda
 Eos
 M/Y Calliope

References

External links 
 Official site of Langan Design

American yacht designers
1955 births
2010 deaths
Technological University, Dawei. Technological University, Dawei situated at Dawei District, Taninthayi Region, Myanmar with the area of 90.8 arcas. It was formerly opened as Government Technical College (GTC) on 2 December 1999 and has been promoted to University level on 20 January 2007. Technological University (Dawei) offers the following engineering degree programs:Post Graduate Degree, Graduate Degree, Under Graduate Degree. Technological University (Dawei) provides laboratory equipment for every majors and also provides language lab room to improve English communication skill.

Departments
 Civil Engineering Department
 Mechanical Engineering Department
 Electrical Power Engineering Department
 Electronic and Communication Engineering Department
 Engineering Physics Department
 Engineering Chemistry Department
 Engineering Mathematics Department
 English Department

Degree programs

Technological universities in Myanmar
Technological University, Kyaingtong. Technological University (Kyaing Tong) () is in Kengtung Township, East Shan State, Myanmar with an area of 38.38 acres. It was formerly opened as Government Technological Institute (GTI) in 1999 and then promoted as Government Technological College (GTC) in 2001. It was upgraded to university level as Technological University in 2007.

Departments 
Civil Engineering Department
Electronics and Communications Department Department
Electrical Power Engineering Department
Mechanical Engineering Department
Academic Department

Programs

See also
Technological University, Taunggyi
Technological University, Lashio
Technological University, Loikaw
Technological University, Panglong
List of Technological Universities in Myanmar

External links 

Technological universities in Myanmar
Universities and colleges in Shan State
Technological University, Kyaukse. Technological University (Kyaukse) is a university under the Ministry of Education. It is located at Kyaukse township, Mandalay Region, Myanmar. Government Technical Institute (Kyaukse) was initially opened on 9, December, 1998 at Myopet Street, Yesu Quarter in Kyaukse. The board of the government of Union of Myanmar upgraded it to the Government Technological College (Kyaukse) on 210, January, 2001 and then it to Technological University (Kyaukse) on 20, January, 2007.

Departments
Civil Engineering Department
Electronic and Communication Engineering Department
Electrical Power Engineering Department
Mechanical Power Engineering Department
Information Technology Department
Metallurgy  Engineering Department
Biotechnology Department
Nuclear Engineering Department

Programs
 Post Graduate Degree Program
 Graduate Degree Program
 Under Graduate Degree Program

See also
Mandalay Technological University
Technological University, Mandalay
Technological University, Meiktila
Technological University Yamethin
University of Technology, Yadanabon Cyber City
List of Technological Universities in Myanmar

External links

Technological universities in Myanmar
Technological University, Mandalay. The Technological University, Mandalay () is located in the northern Mandalay near the Mandalay Hill in Mandalay, Myanmar. From 1955, the school was known as the Government Technical Institute. In August 1999, it was upgraded to a Government Technological College. In 2007, it was upgraded to the level of University. It now offers ten bachelor's degrees in engineering and architecture. The duration of the courses is 6 years. The Technological University offers Graduate Degree. Now, the University has attending 3000 students.

Programmes

Departments
Information Technology Department
Electrical Power Engineering Department
Civil Engineering Department
Electronics Engineering Department
Mechatronics Engineering Department
Mechanical  Engineering Department
Chemical Engineering Department
Architecture Department
Petroleum Engineering Department
Mining Engineering Department

Others
In final year,6 B.E., students have to do thesis and projects.

See also
Mandalay Technological University
List of Technological Universities in Myanmar

Technological universities in Myanmar

References
Zhirayr Poghosyan. Zhirayr Tevanovich Poghosyan (; born 15 January 1942) is an Armenian politician who was Prime Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh from 15 June 1998 to 30 June 1999.

He studied in Stepanakert and from 1960–1965 attended the Polytechnic Institute in Yerevan. After graduation and until 1969, he served as technician, engineer, senior engineer and designer at the Scientific Research Institute. From 1969 to 1971, he was a leading designer at the Scientific Research Institute of Microelectronics. In 1971 he moved to the Electric Engineering Institute where he stayed until 1990, becoming a team leader, deputy head of department, head of department, deputy director for research projects, and senior scientific researcher.

Being active in politics, starting 1992, he was chief specialist of Special Affairs of Armenia and then 1992 acting Deputy Prime Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

In June 1998, he replaced Leonard Petrosyan as Prime Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic serving until 24 June 1999, when he was succeeded by Anushavan Danielyan.

He is married and has two children.

References

1942 births
Living people
People from Martuni Province
Armenian political scientists
Pure shear. In mechanics and geology, pure shear is a three-dimensional homogeneous flattening of a body. It is an example of irrotational strain in which body is elongated in one direction while being shortened perpendicularly. For soft materials, such as rubber, a strain state of pure shear is often used for characterizing hyperelastic and fracture mechanical behaviour. Pure shear is differentiated from simple shear in that pure shear involves no rigid body rotation. 

The deformation gradient for pure shear is given by:

Note that this gives a Green-Lagrange strain of:

 

Here there is no rotation occurring, which can be seen from the equal off-diagonal components of the strain tensor. The linear approximation to the Green-Lagrange strain shows that the small strain tensor is:

which has only shearing components.

See also 
 Simple shear
 Squeeze mapping

References 

Fluid mechanics
Continuum mechanics
Spacecraft Assembly and Checkout Building. The Spacecraft Assembly and Checkout Building (formerly Hangar AE) was built in 1959 for a Department of Defense missile program. The facility was acquired in 1960 by NASA and modified for unmanned missions.

The building contains a Class 10K horizontal laminar flow clean room complex; a telemetry ground station; an extensive communications center for data, voice and video; three launch vehicle data centers (LVDC); the Mission Director's Center (MDC); and offices for payload and contractor personnel. The NASA Launch Services Program uses this facility as its communications center. The entire building is environmentally controlled. The Spacecraft Assembly and Checkout Building control rooms provide real-time voice, data and video information for expendable vehicle checkout and launch operations, similar to that provided by the Space Shuttle control rooms. Each console in the LVDC has a 40-channel voice instrument called a MOCS2 (Mission Operation Communication System version 2). Other areas have 24-channel versions of the MOCS2. Each console has access to an administrative telephone and a modem line for use with a laptop computer, if required.

References

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Kennedy Space Center
Hangar AE. 

History
Built in 1959, Hangar AE was originally built for a
Department of Defense missile program. The facility was
acquired in 1960 by NASA and modified for unmanned
missions.
The building contains a Class 10K horizontal laminar flow clean
room complex, a telemetry ground station, an extensive
communications center for data, voice and video, 3 launch
vehicle data centers (LVDC), the Mission Director’s Center
(MDC), and offices for payload and contractor personnel. It is located on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, but maintained by NASA Kennedy Space Center.

NASA's Launch Services Program (LSP) utilizes this facility
as its launch communications center. The entire building is
environmentally controlled.

The Hangar AE control rooms provide real-time voice, data
and video information for expendable vehicle checkout and
launch operations, similar to that provided by the Space
Shuttle control rooms. Each console in the LVDC has a
40-channel voice instrument called a MOCS2 (Mission
Operation Communication System version 2). Other areas
have 24-channel versions of the MOCS2. Each console has
access to an administrative telephone and a modem line
for use with a laptop computer, if required.

The building can obtain data from launch sites beyond those at Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Launch sites for missions Hangar AE has gathered telemetry on include:
Vandenberg Air Force Base (California)
Reagan Test Site (Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands)
Wallops Flight Facility (Virginia)
Kodiak Launch Complex (Alaska)

The building was one of several Kennedy Space Center buildings to receive substantial damage during Hurricane Frances in 2004. Separately, the clean room experienced a fire and is not currently certified for use.

During the TDRS-L launch in January 2014, LSP engineers located in Hangar AE troubleshot a problem with periodic dropouts in telemetry from the vehicle threatened to stop the launch and allowed the launch to continue that night.

Spacecraft processed
Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission

References

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Kennedy Space Center
Spaceflight (disambiguation). Spaceflight is the act of traveling in outer space.

Spaceflight or Space flight may also refer to:
Spaceflight (magazine), published by the British Interplanetary Society
Spaceflight (TV series), a 1985 American documentary miniseries about crewed spaceflight
CU Spaceflight, a student-run Cambridge University society
Spaceflight Industries, a smallsat rideshare company
Space Flight (album), by Sam Layzar
 Space Flight (video game), about The Phenomenauts
Space travel in science fiction
Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System Model. Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System Model (NOGAPS) is a global numerical weather prediction computer model run by Fleet Numerical. This mathematical model is run four times a day and produces weather forecasts.  Along with the ECMWF's Integrated Forecast System (IFS), the Canadian Global Environmental Multiscale Model (GEM) it is one of several synoptic scale medium-range models in general use.

References

External links 
NOGAPS Portal

Weather prediction
Numerical climate and weather models
Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System. The Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS) is a global numerical weather prediction computer model run by the United States Navy's Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center.  This mathematical model was run four times a day and produced weather forecasts.  The NOGAPS was replaced by the NAVGEM in February 2013.

References

External links 
 FNMOC Portal

Naval meteorology
Numerical climate and weather models
Weather prediction
Bitelli. Bitelli was an engineering company located in Bologna, Italy - the largest and, perhaps best known, Italian construction machinery firm. Beppino Bitelli produced his first three wheel roller in 1933 although it was not until 1957 that the Bitelli Road Mechanics company was formed.  Tandem rollers were soon added and In 1969 the first single drum rollers were manufactured.  In 1978 Bitelli built its first paving machine and, during the 1980s, road profilers and soil stabilizers were added to the line of road machines.

Shareholder company
In 1980 Bitelli became a shareholder company and the five brothers and sisters took over control of the business.  These were Gino Bitelli, Romolo Bitelli, Alessandro Bitelli, Luisa Bitelli and Maria Giovanna Bitelli.  In 1995 Bitelli was divided into four main product categories across 5 continents and 45 countries.
Asphalt Pavers 41.8%
Cold planers 20.7%
Single drum rollers 20.9%
Tandem rollers 16.6%

Sale to Caterpillar
On 2 May 2000 Bitelli was sold to Caterpillar and the Bitelli name disappeared  from construction machinery.  Some models were continued in the Caterpillar line such as the 200LE Cold Planer.  But most others were discontinued including the road rollers and most of the asphalt pavers.

Models

Pavers
BB30 BB50 BB52
BB632 BB642
BB660
BB670
BB621C BB651C BB671C BB681C BB781

Profilers
 SF100 SF140
 200L 200LE 200R
 202

Stabilizers
ST200

Rollers
Single Drum
C80 C100 C120 C170 C180
Three point rollers
TS8 TS10 TS12 TS14

Gallery

References

Manufacturing companies of Italy
Former Caterpillar Inc. subsidiaries
Voisin Icare Aero-Yacht. The Voisin Icare Aero-yacht  was an early flying boat built by Voisin Frères for the oil magnate and promoter of early aviation experimentation Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe. It first flew in 1912.

Design and development
It was initially built as a four-bay unequal-span biplane.  The wings, which had trailing edge ailerons mounted on the upper surfaces only, were mounted on top of a Ricochet motorboat hull.  A 200 hp (150 kW) Clerget engine drove a four bladed pusher configuration propeller mounted mid-gap via a chain. The inverted-T configuration empennage was mounted on booms.  It carried six passengers, and had provision for an armament of two cannon.

It was later modified by extending the lower wing and fitting inset ailerons to both upper and lower wings.

It was first flown as a landplane on 23 November 1912 at Issy-les-Moulineaux with the full complement of six passengers.

Specifications

Notes

References

 Opdycke, Leonard E. French Aeroplanes Before the Great War Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 1999 

Icare Aero-Yacht
1910s French experimental aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Rotary-engined aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1912
Flight commander. A flight commander is the leader of a constituent portion of an aerial squadron in aerial operations, often into combat. That constituent portion is known as a flight, and usually contains six or fewer aircraft, with three or four being a common number. The tactical need for commonality in performance characteristics of aircraft usually insures that all aircraft under a flight commander's command and control in air operations are the same or very similar types.

Historically, the role of a flight commander in fighter aircraft has been that of principal attacker in air-to-air combat, with the other airplane or airplanes in a flight supporting and protecting him from counter-attack as a wingman or wingmen. This delineation of roles came into being very early in the history of aerial warfare, as Oswald Boelcke, Roderic Dallas, and Mick Mannock all derived the basic tactics of successful air-to-air combat from their flying experiences during World War I c. 1916.

The flight commander position has traditionally been held by a captain, naval lieutenant, or Commonwealth air force flight lieutenant, with the wingmen being both junior and subordinate to him. However, rank inflation has taken place in many air forces, and that rating may no longer hold true.

In the Royal Naval Air Service of World War I, flight commander was the appointment for a lieutenant commanding a flight with its own rank insignia.

Flight commander is also the title of the officer commanding a ground-based flight, a platoon-sized unit in the United States Air Force, the Royal Air Force and other Commonwealth air forces.

References

See also
Military hierarchy of air forces

Military appointments
Air force appointments
Naval appointments
4th Combat Engineer Regiment (Australia). 4th Combat Engineer Regiment (4 CER) was an Australian Army Reserve engineer regiment based at East Ringwood, Victoria. Raised on 1 July 1995, upon formation, the regiment consisted of the 10th and 35th Field Squadrons and the 38th Support Squadron. It is an Army Reserve unit that provides engineering support to the 4th Brigade, and played a pivotal role in the ADF support to the 2003 Victorian Alpine Fires and the 2009 Black Saturday Fires. Throughout 2009, the regiment also contributed personnel to operations overseas, including deployments to Afghanistan and the Sinai; other personnel took part were detached to Rifle Company Butterworth and Operation Resolute. In 2013, 4 CER merged with the 22nd Construction Regiment, to form the 22nd Engineer Regiment.

References

Engineer regiments of Australia
Military units and formations established in 1995
Military units and formations disestablished in 2013
Chaika L-4. The Chaika L-4 (чайка, ) is a twin engine amphibious aircraft, designed and built in Russia in the 2000s. It has sold in small numbers and remains in production.

Design and development

Several companies and groups have developed a series of designs which began at an offshoot of the Trod Kuznetsov aircraft engine plant in Samara. Beginning with the L-3, they differ in size and engine type but all are twin engine amphibians with a characteristic V tail. The L-4 is a direct development of the L-6M, promoted by AeroVolga. Its design began in August 2004.

All L-4 variants have the same layout and all are largely built of composite materials.  They are high-wing monoplanes with twin engines mounted close to the fuselage, on top of the wing. The wings have straight taper on both edges and almost square tips. The L-4 has a pair of flaps on each wing. Its hull has two steps and there are small winglets at waterlevel just aft of the trailing edge. The cabin extends from below the leading edge rearwards to the winglets. Fixed floats under the wings stabilize the L-4 on water; it is operable with waves to 400 mm (15 in) high. The most unusual feature of the L-4 is the empennage arrangement: it has twin fins, mounted on the fuselage and extended forward with long, curved dorsal fillets, separated at the base by the full fuselage width and leaning slightly outwards. The fins carry conventional rudders and the single tailplane is mounted upon the fin tips, extending well beyond them. Tailplane and single piece elevator together are trapezoidal; there is a trim tab at the centre of the elevator. The reason for the design is that the spine serves as a walkway to access the plane from behind, when moored at shore. The L-4 has a conventional undercarriage for land use, all three wheels and the water rudder being retractable.

The first flight of the L-4 was in June 2005. The most recent variant, the more powerful L-44 flew in 2009.

Operational history
By mid-2008 sales, probably including L-6s from AeroVolga, had reached 14.

Variants
L-4 Original design, no longer produced.
L-42 Improved, with Rotax 912 ULS flat four 73.3 kW (98.6 hp) engines.
L-42M Further improvements: weight savings, winglets, crew ergonomics. Marketed by Aviatech1.com.
L-44 More powerful Rotax 914 engines, as detailed below.  First flown 2009.
L-65 Improved with Rotax 915 iS engines.

Specifications (Chaika L-44)

References

External links

 English website

Amphibious aircraft
2000s Russian aircraft
HTMS Similan. HTMS Similan (871) () is a replenishment oiler (AOR) of the Royal Thai Navy. She was intended to support the aircraft carrier  and its escorts. Similan was constructed in the People's Republic of China at the Hudong Shipyard through a 1993 contract with the China State Shipbuilding Corporation. The ship was commissioned in 1996. Similan is the largest ship in the Thai navy and the largest naval ship exported by China.

The design is a flush-decked development of the Chinese Type 905 AOR resembling the French Durance; the builder referred to the design as Type R22T. Similan was a sister ship or the precursor to the later Chinese Type 903.

Design
Similan has two refueling stations on each side. Solid cargo is transferred by helicopter.

The ship was planned to be armed with Chinese weapons; four Type 76 twin 37 mm naval guns and the Type 341 radar were not fitted.

Career
Similan deployed together with  in 2010 and  in 2011 to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia as part of Combined Task Force 151.

Notes

References

Sources

Ships of the Royal Thai Navy
Ships built in China
1995 ships
Air ambulance services in Greece. Air ambulance in Greece is air ambulance services provided by government agencies including the Hellenic Air Force or by private-sector companies.

The aircraft used by HAF for medical transportation are:
 Beechcraft King Air 350ER
 Agusta A109 helicopter
 Bell 212 helicopter

The fixed-wing aircraft and the helicopters of the Hellenic Air Force, are ready 24 hours / 365 days a year and are called to transport from remote or hard to reach locations, patients or injured persons that need direct medical attention. The flights are coordinated in collaboration with the National Centre of Emergency Help (EKAB) and the Ministry of Health. During these missions, medical personnel are also on board.

The National Centre of Emergency Help (EKAB) also provides air ambulance services by means of other aircraft

 UH-1H Hellenic Army helicopter
 CH-47D Chinook Hellenic Army helicopter
 ΑΒ-212 (Bell 212) Hellenic Navy helicopter
 Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk  Hellenic Navy helicopter

Private-sector companies 
Private-sector companies that provide or have provided air medical transportation and medical escort of patients via means of air transport, air ambulance fixed and rotary wing or commercial scheduled flights include Gamma Air Medical Ltd, which was founded in 1997.

Private-sector companies such as Global Air Ambulance and US Air Ambulance both provide air medical repatriation services to and from Greece. Greek citizens that are abroad and in need of medical transport back to Greece can be moved by air ambulance or, in less critical situations, air medical escort.

References 

 Hellenic Airforce Social Service

 
Hellenic Air Force