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NSB Class 65. NSB Class 65 () was a three-car electric multiple unit operated by the Norwegian State Railways between 1936 and 1985. It was mainly used for local trains as well as branch lines. A total of 49 units were delivered between 1936 and 1949. The motor cars were built by Norsk Elektrisk & Brown Boveri and Skabo while the centre and end cars were built by Strømmen.

There are three series of Class 65. The A-series is rebuilt passenger carriages in wood totaling 10 units. The B-series consists of 13 steel units built in 1942 while a total of 22 C-series units were delivered 1949-51. Type 65 was quite successful and both Class 67 and Class 68 are based on it.

Units have been preserved by the Norwegian Railway Association, NBVJ in Nora, Freunde des Schienenverkehrs Flensburg, Minden Museum Railway and Colne Valley Railway.

External links

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Brown, Boveri & Cie multiple units
Train-related introductions in 1936
15 kV AC multiple units
Macchi L.2. The Macchi L.2 was an Italian biplane flying boat developed from the earlier Macchi L.1, itself a copy of a captured Austrian Lohner flying boat.

Development
In an attempt to improve the performance of the L.1 flying-boat Macchi, the design was improved with a reduced span on the swept biplane wings and a more powerful  Isotta Fraschini V.4B engine. The L.2 was a three-bay unequal-span biplane flying boat with a two-man crew in side-by-side cockpits. It was powered by a single Isotta Fraschini engine, strut-mounted between the two wings and driving a pusher propeller. It was armed with a single machine gun on a trainable mounting and could also carry four light bombs. Ten L.2s were delivered to the Italian Navy, but they were soon replaced by the newer L.3.

Operators

Italian Navy Aviation

Specifications (L.2)

See also

References

 

1910s Italian military reconnaissance aircraft
Flying boats
L.02
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1916
NSB Class 62. NSB Class 62 is the first electric railcar operated by the Norwegian State Railways, between 1936 and 1970. Four units were built by Skabo and Norsk Elektrisk & Brown Boveri in 1931–35, with unit has been preserved by the Norwegian Railway Museum.

The units served, along with trailer cars on the first mainline electrified railway, the Drammen Line. Two were delivered in 1931; two more in 1933. They proved to be underpowered, and were not used on the most heavily trafficked part of the line; mostly serving on trains to Asker or Heggedal. 62.02 was involved in an explosion at Filipstad on 13 December 1943 and retired. The units were not compatible with the newer NSB BM65 units delivered from 1936, and were dispatched to Ofotbanen in 1952 where they served until 1970, except for 62.01 that was transferred to Kristiansand to be used on local  trains on the Sørland Line, remaining in service until 1965.

References

External links

Jernbane.net entry on the BM65
Norwegian Railway Association on the BM65

62
Brown, Boveri & Cie multiple units
Train-related introductions in 1931
15 kV AC multiple units
Ultra Hand. Ultra Hand is a toy that was manufactured by Nintendo in the late 1960s. It was created in 1966 by Gunpei Yokoi, who would later design the Love Tester, the D-pad, the Game Boy, and the WonderSwan.

Ultra Hand consists of several criss-cross-connected plastic elements, and operates on the "lazy tongs" pantograph principle. One end of the Ultra Hand has scissor-like handles and is operated like scissors, extending when the handles are pinched together and retracting when they are parted.  On the other end of the Ultra Hand are two bowl-shaped grips with which ball-like objects can be gripped when the Ultra Hand is fully extended. Three colored balls were included in the Ultra Hand package, along with stands on which the balls can rest.

Ultra Hand was a commercial success, selling more than one million units. It is the first of several toys developed by Yokoi that helped to save the company from financial difficulties.

In video games 
A WiiWare game titled Grill-Off with Ultra Hand! was released in North America on March 31, 2010 as an exclusive to Club Nintendo members. The game features the Ultra Hand stretching out to grab cooked meats from barbecue grills. In single-player mode, the goal is to last as long as possible. In two-player mode, players compete for the most points in 90 seconds.

The Ultrahand ability in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is named after the Ultra Hand, taking the form of waves of energy that allow Link to grab, reposition, and combine objects.

The Ultra Hand has appeared in various other Nintendo games, including Splatoon 3, WarioWare Gold, and Mario Kart 8.

See also 
Love Tester
Ultra Machine
Color TV-Game
List of Nintendo products

References 

1960s toys
Nintendo toys
WiiWare games
NSB Class 87. NSB Class 87 () is a class of 25 diesel-hydraulic railcars built by Strømmens Værksted for the Norwegian State Railways. Seventeen a-series units were delivered in 1941 and equipped with  Deutz prime mover. Eight b-series units were delivered in 1952 and equipped with  Scania-Vabis prime movers. The trains weighed  and had a maximum speed of , respectively for the a and b-series. They were used on many branch lines until the 1960s, when the gradual electrification caused most lines instead to be served with Class 86. The a-series was scrapped in 1972 and 1973, while the b-series remained used between Ål and Hønefoss on the Bergen Line until 1975 and on the Flekkefjord Line until 1981.

Specifications
Class 87 is a single-car railcar with seating for 46 people plus 11 folding seats. The cars have an overall length of  and a body length of . The class was equipped with a diesel-hydraulic transmission. The a-series is equipped with a Deutz A6M517 engine, which gives a power output of . The b-series has a Scania-Vabis D802 prime mover with a power output of . The higher power gave the b-series a maximum speed of , compared to the  of the a-series. However, this also have the b-series a  weight, compared to the a-series .

History
The class was ordered for NSB to have a class of smaller railbuses for lines with little traffic. Seventeen units were delivered in 1941, and were originally numbered 18.265–281 and designated Class 7a. Another eight units, the b-series, were delivered in 1952 and numbered 18.301–308. The class was later renumbered Class 87. The trains were used both on mainline routes with little traffic and on branch lines. As the railway network was gradually electrified during the 1950s and 1960s, the need for railcars dropped. Branch line service could easily be handled by the larger and more comfortable Class 86 and 91, and from the late 1960s Class 87 was taken out of use. NSB attempted to sell the units, but as no-one was interested in purchasing them, they were scrapped in 1972 and 1973.

The b-series remained in service on the local service between Ål and Hønefoss on the Bergen Line, but was taken out of service in the mid-1970s. Also the Flekkefjord Line retained the b-series, which was used until 1981, when it was replaced with Class 89. The last six trains were retired on 4 March 1981. No. 87-01 and 03 have been preserved by the Norwegian Railway Club.

References

External links
Entry at the Norwegian Railway Club
Entry at Jernbane.net

87
Train-related introductions in 1941
Railcars of Norway
211th Rescue Squadron. The 211th Rescue Squadron (211th RQS) is a unit of the Alaska Air National Guard 176th Wing located at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska. The 211th is equipped with the HC-130J Hercules.

Overview
The 211th flies four HC-130 Hercules transports, a version of the C-130 specially modified and upgraded for aerial refueling and combat search-and-rescue missions. These aircraft extend the range of the wing’s HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters with an air refueling capability.

Established on 8 October 2004 by the Air Force Special Operations Command as part of a re-organization of Air National Guard rescue units which created separate squadrons for fixed-wing, helicopter and pararescue elements of the 210th Rescue Squadron.   All three squadrons are assigned to the 176th Operations Group.  The HH-60 helicopter flight became 210th Rescue Squadron; the HC-130P Hercules flight become the 211th Rescue Squadron, and the pararescue flight became the 212th Rescue Squadron.

When in a theater of combat, squadron members operate at the direction of the overall theater combatant commander and the theater's commander of air forces. In these situations, the 211th is primarily assigned to conduct personnel recovery operations—rescuing downed airmen or other isolated personnel from enemy territory, for example. In addition to combat search-and-rescue missions like these, the 211th may also conduct collateral missions: noncombatant evacuation operations, inter- and intra-theater airlift, and support of special operations forces, for example.

Back at home, the 211th Rescue Squadron is part of a network of search-and-rescue organizations that save hundreds of lives in and around Alaska every year. This network includes not only the 211th's sister squadrons in the 176th Wing, but also such agencies as the U.S. Coast Guard, the Alaska State Troopers, the National Park Service, the Civil Air Patrol and others. Other 211th missions include non-combat search and rescue (SAR), emergency aeromedical evacuations, humanitarian relief, international aid, counter-drug activities, and support for NASA flight operations.

Stations
 Kulis Air National Guard Base, Alaska, 8 October 2004
 Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, 18 February 2011 – present.

References

Official website

External links

Squadrons of the United States Air National Guard
Military units and formations in Alaska
211
Voronezh Aircraft Production Association. Voronezh Aircraft Production Association (VASO in English, ВАСО in Russian, Воронежское акционерное самолётостроительное общество, literally Society of Voronezh Joint-Ownership Aircraft Builders) is one of the largest aircraft production plants in Russia.

History
Founded in 1932 in Voronezh (as Voronezh Aviation Plant, branch registry number 18). In 2007, VASO became part of the state-owned United Aircraft Corporation (UAC).
Notable planes built here are the An-148 (never was commercially built, failed), Tu-28 (until 1970), Tu-144 (16 were made in 1967-1983), Il-86 (built until the end of the USSR), Il-96 (still in production with less than 1 unit per year), Il-28 (production ended in 1970), ANT-25 (pre-WWII plane), TB-3 (WWII plane), Il-2 (WWII plane), Tu-16 (built in the middle of the 20th century, retired in the late USSR years) and some others.

In July 2009, UAC said it will invest 5 billion rubles ($162 mln) in the modernization of VASO's facilities. According to UAC, VASO will build 5 An-148 passenger aircraft in 2009, 18 in 2010, 36 in 2011, and 50 planes would be made annually from 2013 onwards.

Between 2008 and 2015, it produced some parts for an Airbus A320 and the A380.

In 1993, the aircraft plant started to develop two new updates to old Soviet models, the wide-body aircraft Il-96-400M and Il-112V. However, the yearly revenue of the plant is lower than the average price of one wide-body airliner.

Operation 
The plant produces IL-96-300, IL-96-400T aircraft, separate units for Il-76MD-90A, SSJ100 and MC-21 aircraft, as well as PD-14 engines; work is underway on Il-112 and Il-114 aircraft. Up to and including 2018, the An-148 aircraft was produced in cooperation with Ukraine.

Also the plant is engaged in the maintenance of IL-96 and An-148.

Test flights are conducted at the Pridacha experimental airfield.

VASO Airlines 
For a short period, the company operated a charter airline sub-division, naming it VASO Airlines. Established in 1999, VASO folded in 2006.

Ownership structure
 JSC “Ilyushin Interstate Aircraft-Building Company” (30.0% of the shares)
 JSC “Ilyushin Aviation Complex” (27.1% of the shares)
 Private shareholders (42.9% of the shares)

Incidents 
On March 5, 2011 an An-148 plane crash occurred in the Belgorod Oblast during a training flight performed by VASO testers and pilots from Myanmar. 6 people who were on board are died.

Notes

References

External links
 Official website of VASO 
 Voronezh aircraft production association

 
1932 establishments in the Soviet Union
United Aircraft Corporation
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1932
Companies formerly listed on the Moscow Exchange
Aircraft manufacturers of the Soviet Union
Defunct airlines of Russia
Clarke Chapman. Clarke Chapman is a British engineering firm based in Gateshead, which was formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange.

History

The company was founded in 1864 in Gateshead by William Clarke (1831–1890). In 1865 Clarke took in a partner, Abel Chapman, and the two of them developed the business into one of the largest manufacturers of cranes and other mechanical handling equipment in the world. In 1870 two further partners joined the firm, Joseph Watson and Joseph Gurney. The firm became known as Clarke, Chapman and Gurney. Joseph Gurney retired from the firm in 1882. The firm subsequently formed a partnership with John Furneaux and Charles Parsons, and became known as Clarke, Chapman, Parsons, and Company. Parsons left the firm in 1889.

By 1907 the firm manufactured an extensive range of ship's auxiliary machinery, mining plant, water tube boilers, and pumps.  Clarke Chapman became the main supplier of auxiliary equipment to the British shipbuilding industry before the First World War.

In 1969 Clarke Chapman acquired Sir William Arrol & Co., a leading bridge-builder.

In 1970 Clarke Chapman acquired John Thompson, a leading boiler making business based in Wolverhampton.

In 1974 Clarke Chapman acquired the UK interests of International Combustion, a diverse group of heavy engineering businesses.

The company merged with Reyrolle Parsons in 1977 to form Northern Engineering Industries plc which itself was acquired by Rolls-Royce plc in 1989.

The business continues today as part of Langley Holdings Limited which acquired it from Rolls-Royce in 2000.

Ships using Clarke Chapman mechanical handling equipment include the RFA Wave Knight and the RFA Wave Ruler completed in 2000 and 2001 respectively.

Operations

The company trades under the names of Cowans Sheldon (railway cranes), RB Cranes (construction cranes), Stothert & Pitt (port cranes) and Wellman Booth (steel plant cranes).

See also

 C.A. Parsons and Company
 A. Reyrolle & Company

References

External links
 Official site
 Clarke Chapman History
 Partial list of the firm's early product literature
 
 

Boilers
Companies based in Tyne and Wear
British companies established in 1864
Engineering companies of the United Kingdom
1864 establishments in England
Manufacturing companies established in 1864
Macchi M.3. The Macchi L.3, or later Macchi M.3, was an Italian biplane flying boat developed from the earlier L.2.

Development
The Macchi company had learned about flying boat design from copying an Austrian flying boat to produce the Macchi L.1 and improving it to produce the L.2. The result was the L.3, which was renamed the M.3 in 1917 to recognise the change in design from Lohner influenced to a Macchi design. Only the unequal-span biplane wings were inherited from the L.2; a new and refined hull and strut-mounted tailplane were designed. Like its predecessors, the new plane was powered by a single Isotta Fraschini engine strut mounted between the two wings and driving a pusher propeller. It was armed with a single machine gun on a trainable mounting and could also carry four light bombs. In 1916, one aircraft gained the world altitude record for a seaplane when it climbed to 5,400 m (17,700 ft) in 41 minutes.

Operational history
Over 200 M.3s were built and delivered to the Royal Italian Navy and were used on a variety of missions which including bombing, reconnaissance, patrol and escort. For a short period in 1917, it was also used as a fighter. Several aircraft were used in commando-style operations behind Austrian lines. The aircraft were highly regarded by the Royal Italian Navy and they were used on bombing raids and pioneered the Italian use of aerial photography. After World War I, the type was used by training units until 1924.

In 1919, an L.3 which belonged to the Italian Military Mission in Argentina connected Buenos Aires with Asunción, Paraguay for the first time. This plane was later donated to the Paraguayan government. Lieutenant Arturo Escario, who was already a pilot, trained in the L.3 in Argentina. This plane was destroyed in an accident on 30 September 1919. Its pilot, Lieutenant Escario, died the following day.

A number of second-hand aircraft were used by the Swiss company Ad Astra Aero to carry out charters and joy rides on the Swiss lakes, the two passengers were seated side-by-side behind a large windscreen with the pilot in a raised open cockpit further aft.

Two M.3s were fitted with Fiat A.12 engines and were re-designated Macchi M.4, but they were abandoned after completion in favour of the Macchi M.9.

Operators

Regia Marina

Ad Astra Aero

Paraguayan Air Force

Specifications

See also

References

 

 Sapienza Fracchia, Antonio Luis: "La Contribución Italiana en la Aviación Paraguaya". Author's edition. Asunción, 2007. 300pp.

M.03
1910s Italian military reconnaissance aircraft
Flying boats
Biplanes
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1916
Macchi M.C.100. The Macchi M.C.100 was an Italian commercial flying boat designed and built by Macchi.

Design and development
The M.C.100 was a shoulder-wing cantilever monoplane flying boat, with a family resemblance to the military twin-engine M.C.99 and earlier M.C.94. It was powered by three Alfa Romeo 126 RC 10 radial engines strut-mounted above the wing, each driving a three-bladed tractor propeller. The pilot and co-pilot sat side by side in a raised and enclosed control cabin forward of the wing, while the radio operator sat in the aircraft's nose. A main cabin in the hull had accommodation for 26 passengers.

The prototype first flew on 7 January 1939. The prototype was followed by two more aircraft, and all three were in service by June 1940 with Ala Littoria operating between Rome-Algiers-Barcelona. With the start of World War II, the aircraft was used for liaison and communication duties, and to maintain a daily Rome-Marsala-Tripoli service.

Operators

 Ala Littoria

Specifications (M.C.100)

See also

References

 
 
 

M.C.100
1930s Italian airliners
Flying boats
Trimotors
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1939
Adelbrecht. Adelbrecht was a speaking, interactive robot in the form of a ball, designed by Martin Spanjaard (born 1952 in Haarlem, Netherlands).

A first, simple version of Adelbrecht was presented in 1985.
Starting 1988, a second, more powerful version was developed. The successor was able to detect several different 'situations': rolling, bumping, being stuck, being petted etc. Moreover, Adelbrecht was now capable of displaying different states of nature: sleep or awake. Combined with variables nicknamed 'lust' and 'fatigue', the situations and states of nature enabled Adelbrecht to interact with, and respond to its immediate and past environment. In 1992 Adelbrecht received an honourable mentioning at the Prix Ars Electronica. Its last performance, planned at New Year's Eve 2000, never took place because of serious hardware failure. From then on, Spanjaard proclaimed Adelbrecht a 'dead robot'.

Etymology
The name "Adelbrecht" consists of two Middle Dutch words, Adel (Good) and Brecht (Nice). Modern versions of this name are Albert or Elbert.

See also
Robotic art

References

External links 
 Article by Francisco van Jole in the Dutch magazine Blvd (1994)
 Article by Dirk van Weelden in Mediamatic
 Article about Atos Origin on the Dutch Wikipedia
 Ars Electronica Linz, Honorable mentioning  (1992)
 Page about Adelbrecht in the Catalogue of the NIMK (Netherlands Media Art Institute)
 Short bio of Martin Spanjaard at V2, Institute of the unstable media, the Netherlands
 Video registration at YouTube (3'40")

Individual robots
1985 robots
Robots of the Netherlands
Spherical orb robots
Macchi M.C.94. The Macchi M.C.94 was a 1930s Italian commercial flying boat built by Macchi.

Development
The M.C.94 was designed by Mario Castoldi as a commercial passenger transport flying boat to replace the Ala Littoria airlines  elderly CANT 10s. Constructed mainly of wood, it was a high-wing cantilever monoplane with a two-step hull and single fin and rudder. The prototype, which was an amphibian with a retractable wheeled undercarriage which swung forward into streamlined casings in the leading edges of the wings, was powered by two  Wright SGR-1820-F Cyclone nine-cylinder air-cooled radial engines mounted above the wing, each driving a tractor propeller. It was followed by 11 production aircraft, which were all pure flying boats. From the seventh aircraft,  Alfa Romeo 126 R.C.10 radial engines were fitted. The three-man crew was accommodated in a raised and enclosed cockpit and the main cabin could accommodate 12 passengers.

Ala Littoria purchased the prototype and first five production aircraft in 1936. The Regia Aeronautica (Italian Royal Air Force) declined purchase of the final six production aircraft,  which Ala Littoria then also bought.

Operational history
The M.C.94 entered service with Ala Littoria in 1936 on Adriatic routes, and a number were still in service during World War II. In 1939, Ala Italia sold three of its M.C.94s to its Argentinian partner, Corporación Sudamericana de Servicios Aéreos.

The prototype set a number of international world records for flying boats in 1937, including a new altitude record of  carrying a payload of , a speed record of  over a  closed circuit, and a speed record of  carrying a  payload over a  closed circuit.

Variants
M.C.94 Anfibio 
Prototype amphibian version with Wright engines.
M.C.94 I
The first five production aircraft built as pure flying boats with Wright engines.
M.C.94 II
The final six production aircraft, also built as flying boats with Alfa Romeo 126 R.C.10 engines. In 1939, three were exported to Argentina.

Operators

Corporación Sudamericana de Servicios Aéreos
A.L.F.A. (Aviación del Litoral Fluvial Argentino)

Ala Littoria
Regia Aeronautica

Specifications (MC.94)

See also

Notes

References

 
 

M.C.094
1930s Italian airliners
Flying boats
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1935
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft