omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Nils Foss. Nils Foss (11 May 1928 – 16 May 2018) was a Danish civil engineer and business executive. He was the founder of Foss A/S, a Danish family owned company, established in 1956. The Nils Foss Prize is named after him.

Early life and education
Foss was born into a family of well-known civil engineers in Copenhagen. His paternal grandfather, Alexander Foss, had been a co-owner and central figure in FLSmidth from 1887. Foss attended Gentofte Statsskole and graduated as a civil engineer from the Technical University of Denmark in 1952.

Career
After his graduation, Foss was initially employed at Torben Søderberg in Denmark as Sales engineer. Thereafter he went to the United States where he worked for Tracerlab Inc in Boston and Donner Scientific Co. in California.

After his return to Denmark, in 1956, he founded FOSS Electric A/S (now  FOSS Analytical A/S), with his father Erling Foss. He was CEO of FOSS until 1968, where after he was CEO of the Danish company F.L. Smidth from 1969–1976. In 1981 he returned to FOSS as CEO and in 1990 he passed the reins to his son Peter Foss.

For a period of time he was active in the Board of the Danish Conservative Party, during which time he was a strong supporter of Danish membership of the European Union.

During 1989–1996 Nils Foss was Chairman of the Danish charity Dansk Flygtningehjælp. He is also the co-founder and Chairman of the Danish American Business Forum (DABF) from 1997–2002; and Danish-Chinese Business Forum (DCBF) where he held the position of Chairman from 2006–2012.

Personal life
Foss was married to the artist Dorthe Foss. They had three children, the sons Peter and Nils Christian Foss and the daughter Pernille Foss. All three children are board members of Foss Analytics. Foss was active in the Conservative People's Party. He was chairman of Dansk Flygtningehjælp from 1989  to 1996.

References 

1928 births
2018 deaths
Danish civil engineers
Danish company founders
Businesspeople from Copenhagen
People from Frederiksberg
Technical University of Denmark alumni
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
Neurological disease deaths in Denmark
Tico Robot. Tico is a social robot developed by Adele Robots to interact with humans in different environments, primarily promotional events and in education as a helper for teachers.

History
Initially created by Treelogic in 2007 as a research platform for Human-Robot Interaction, it participated in several R&D projects such as ACROSS, and was also tested in supermarkets and schools. It became commercially available in 2010.

Design
The first version included a laser rangefinder and ultrasonic sensors for obstacle detection, and a camera for tracking people and reading QR codes. It also has a touch screen. Its head and neck access 6 degrees of freedom. It moves using differential steering with two high-torque EC gear-motors, and runs Ubuntu 9.10 on a 1.6Ghz Intel Core Duo. It stands  tall and weighs . A new, fresh battery allows it to run freely for eight hours.

Tico usage
Tico was tested as a pedagogic tool for teachers to improve children's motivation and gain their attention.

See also
 Kismet
 Joe Robot

References

External links
 

Social robots
2007 robots
Robots of Spain
Rolling robots
EEL ULF 1. The EEL ULF 1 is a West German high-wing, single-seat, foot-launched, microlift glider that was designed by Dieter Reich. When it was available it was provided in the form of plans by Entwicklung und Erprobung von Leichtflugzeugen (EEL) () for amateur construction. By the end of 2019 the company website had been take down and it is likely that the company has gone out of business.

Design and development
The ULF 1 was first flown in November 1977 and first shown at the 3rd International Hang Glider Meet at the Wasserkuppe in August 1978. The prototype was built by Reich's partner at EEL, Heiner Neumann. The design was intended to be able to soar in weak ridge and thermal lift.

The aircraft is made from spruce, birch plywood and balsa, covered in doped aircraft fabric and features conventional full three axis controls. Its two-piece, single-spar  span wing is a cantilever design and employs a Wortmann FX 63-137 airfoil. Glide path control is via spoilers on the wing top surface. The aircraft is normally flown without a windshield, but a Plexiglas canopy is optional. The aircraft's best glide ratio is 16:1 at . With both the canopy and pilot doors fitted the best glide ratio is 18:1. The landing gear is a fixed skid and the aircraft is equipped with a ballistic parachute full aircraft rescue system. The aircraft is normally transported by trailer and can be assembled in 10 minutes.

The ULF 1 was approved in West Germany in July 1980 and Australia in 1983.

The ULF 1 can be foot-launched from slopes of at least 15°. The pilot foot launches the aircraft suspending it on the shoulder harness and, once airborne sits on a retractable slat seat and closes two partial lower doors. It can also be launched by bungee launch, winch-launch, auto-tow and aerotow.

The cost of building the aircraft from plans is estimated by the designer as €2500. In 2011 the plans cost €150 and were available in German and English. The plans consist of 31 blueprint pages and a 37-page construction manual. The manufacturer claims a build time of about 1000 hours.

Operational history
The prototype has flown more than 200 flights totalling over 150 hours, most of which were foot-launched. The longest flight flown by a ULF 1 is six hours and .

More than 40 examples have been completed and flown.

Specifications (ULF 1)

See also

References

External links

1970s German sailplanes
Sailplanes designed for foot-launching
Homebuilt aircraft
Entwicklung und Erprobung von Leichtflugzeugen aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1977
High-wing aircraft
Salute to Excellence. Salute to Excellence is a category of awards issued by the Helicopter Association International since 1960, "for outstanding achievements in the international helicopter community".

Individual awards
Aviation Maintenance Technician Award (since 1994)
Aviation Repair Specialist Award (since 1995)
Igor I. Sikorsky Award for Humanitarian Service (since 1989; incorporates the former Crew of the Year Award)
1990 Mykola Melnyk for his service as a Chernobyl liquidator
2015 Portuguese Air Force 751 Squadron - S&R
Crew of the Year (1980–1995)
The Joe Mashman Safety Award (since 1987)
2015 Edwin McConkey - Approach Software 
Outstanding Certified Flight Instructor Award (since 1985)
2015 Simon Spencer-Bower Wanaka Helicopters
Agusta Westland Community Service Award (since 1990)
Raise Your Sites! Award (1983–1988)
Max Schumacher Memorial Award (1967–1988)
Fly Neighborly Award (1982–1988)
Airbus Golden Hour Award (since 1982)
2015 Snohomish Co
Excellence in Communications Award (since 1975)
2015 Micheal Hirschburg - Vertiflite 
Helicopter Maintenance Award (since 1973)
2015 Patrick Cox - Robinson Helicopter Company
MD Helicopters Law Enforcement Award (since 1972)
2015 U.S. Park Police Eagle One
Lawrence D. Bell Memorial Award (since 1971)
Robert E. Trimble Memorial Award  (since 1961)
Appareo Systems Pilot of the Year Award  (since 1960)
2015 Gary Dahlen - King Fire
Bell Helicopter Lifetime Achievement
2015 Lou Bartolotta

See also

 List of aviation awards

References

External links
Salute to Excellence Awards Program on the HAI official web site
Past Award Winners List of award winners since 2002
“Salute to Excellence” Awards Full all-time list of award winners by the HAI's Helicopter Annual magazine

Aviation awards
Chinese Engineering and Mining Company. The Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, Limited, was established with foreign capital around 1879 to mine coal for the steamships of the Chinese Merchants' Steam Navigation Company and the Imperial Chinese Navy. English mining engineer Robert Reginald Burnett, MICE, directed the first shaft at Kaiping near Tangshan, Hebei Province, in 1879. The tram line between the mine and its canal to the Hai He eventually developed into the Imperial Railway of North China and the modern Jingha Railway, the civil engineering partnership Sir John Wolfe-Barry and Lt Col Arthur John Barry being appointed Joint Consulting Engineers to the Company at the end of the nineteenth century.

At various times there were organized riots against the railway; in one instance, thousands of dollars worth of damage was done to mining equipment at the Tongshan colliery when a violent feud erupted between Cantonese and northern Chinese workers.

The company was formally chartered in 1900 and then reformed in 1912 as a public company listed in London. Together with the Lanchow Mining Company, it formed the Kailuan Mining Administration to oversee its coal mines, which were producing about 4.5 million tons annually during the 1920s. The company's activities were completely halted by the victory of the Communists in the Chinese Civil War and it was finally dissolved in 1984.

Its records between 1900 and 1951 are stored at the London Metropolitan Archives.

The rest of the company became the Kailuan Group at Tangshan, which is one of the largest coal mining companies in Mainland China.

See also
 Kaiping Tramway

References

Further reading
Crush, Peter (2013) “Imperial Railways of North China” – “关内外铁路” 皮特•柯睿思 著. Bilingual in English and Simplified Chinese. Xinhua Publishing House, Beijing . (Description on line) (Link downloaded 11/19/2013). The first few chapters of this book describe in detail the creation of the first coal mine at Tangshan in China which used imported Western technology. It continues to explain how the first coal mine tramway, owned by the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, progressively developed into China's first standard gauge railway line serving Beijing, Tianjin, Tangshan, Shanhaiguan and Shenyang.

External links
 

Mining companies of China
DS0A. DS0A is the interface most commonly used for SS7 networks in the US. It is a 56/64 kbit/s channel typically located in a DS1 or larger facility. The DS0A electrical interface usually only exists inside a central office environment, and only exists for the sole purpose of connecting into a channel bank to be multiplexed onto a higher facility.

Sources 
Cisco SS7 Fundamentals (archived website, saved 13th of March 2013)
Russell, Travis. "Signaling System # 7", Mcgraw-Hill Telecommunications. 

Signaling System 7
125 series. The  is a single-car DC electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR-West) on local services in Japan since March 2003.

Design
The 125 series design is based on the 223-2000 series EMU design, with stainless bodies and steel front ends.

The cars have two pairs of sliding doors on each side, with provision for a third set of doors in the centre.

The second-batch cars (KuMoHa 125-9–12) delivered in 2003 differ from the earlier batch by having enlarged front-end skirts and darker grey tinted windows.

Operations
The 125 series is used on wanman driver-only operation services, primarily on the Obama Line and Kakogawa Line.

Up to five single cars can be operated together as a multiple car set.

Formation

Cars KuMoHa 125-7/8/11/12 are equipped with a second de-icing pantograph.

Interior
Passenger accommodation consists of longitudinal bench seating at the ends, and 2+2 abreast transverse reversible seating in the centre of the cars. The first two batches of cars (KuMoHa 125-1–12) were delivered with 1+2 abreast seating, but this was increased to 2+2 seating during 2003 and 2004.

History
The first eight cars (KuMoHa 125-1–8) were built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries in December 2002 for entry into service from 15 March 2003 on the then-newly electrified  Obama Line between  and . These sets were initially allocated to Fukuchiyama Depot, but were subsequently transferred to Tsuruga Depot.

Four more cars (KuMoHa 125-9–12) were built in September 2004 for entry into service from 19 December 2004 on the newly electrified  Kakogawa Line between  and .

A further six cars (KuMoHa 125-13–18) were built in September 2006 to coincide with the conversion of Tsuruga area services from 20 kV AC to 1,500 V DC electrification from 21 October 2006.

From the start of the revised timetable on 18 March 2023, 125 series trainsets began operation on the Maizuru Line.

Further reading

References

Electric multiple units of Japan
West Japan Railway Company
Train-related introductions in 2003
Kawasaki multiple units
1500 V DC multiple units of Japan
Bioenergy Corporation. Bioenergy Corporation (Russian: Корпорация "Биоэнергия") is industrial holding company in the field of fuel energy, engineering and biotechnology. Assets of the company provide a  production cycle for Industrial Engineering, peat extraction and processing, production and distribution of finished products, generating heat and electricity.

The basis for holding a number of technology clusters in the peat industry. The main production assets are concentrated in the Central European part of Russia. In particular, a corporation controlled by one of the largest peat Russian companies LLC "Mokeiha-Zybinskoe" in the Yaroslavl region of Russia and "Vladimir-Peat"  in Vladimir region.

Gallery

Management

 Chairman of the board of directors is David Yakobashvili.
 President, Member of the Board is Yan Yanovskiy.

References

External links 
 "Биоэнергия" намерена развивать торфяную энергетику // МОСКВА, 22 сен - РИА Новости
 Корпорация «Биоэнергия» объявляет о покупке крупного производственного актива // Частный корреспондент, 21 сентября 2011 года
 "Биоэнергия" в 2011 г инвестирует 204 млн руб в добычу и переработку торфа во Владимирской области
 Ольга Лаврова. Корпорация «Биоэнергия» заинтересовалась новгородским торфом
 Анна ДЕКТЯРЕВА. Добыча торфа в Мещере спасет нас от пожаров? // Комсомольская правда
 Всеволод ШАПОШНИКОВ. В Ярославской области создается кластер производства биотоплива // Комсомольская правда
 140 млн. рублей инвестировано в развитие торфяной отрасли Владимирской области

Mining companies of Russia
Energy companies established in 2011
Non-renewable resource companies established in 2011
Companies based in Moscow
Benoist Land Tractor Type XII. The Benoist Land Tractor Type XII was one of the first enclosed cockpit, tractor configuration aircraft built. Benoist used "Model XII" to several aircraft that shared the same basic engine and wing design, but differed in fuselage and control surfaces.

Design and development
The Type XII was a tractor-engined conversion of the model XII headless pusher aircraft that resembled the Curtiss pusher aircraft. Demonstration pilots used Benoist aircraft to demonstrate the first parachute jumps, and the tractor configuration was considered much more suitable for the task. The first example named the "Military Plane" had a small box frame covered fuselage that left the occupants mostly exposed to the wind. The later model XII "Cross Country Plane" had a full fuselage that occupants sat inside of.

The first tractor biplane used a wooden fuselage with a small seat on top. The wings were covered with a Goodyear rubberized cloth.

Operational history
The first model XII was built in the spring of 1912.

On 1 March 1912, Albert Berry used a headless Type XII to complete the first parachute jump from an airplane. Berry used a conical parachute with paper in between the folds to prevent entanglement. He climbed onto a trapeze like support on the front of the aircraft, cut the supporting cable and landed at Jefferson Barracks.

On 6 November 1912 Tony Jannus flew a model XII mounted with floats 1,973 mi down the Missouri and Mississippi rivers from Omaha, Nebraska to New Orleans arriving on 16 December.

Variants
Type XII Military Plane - A tractor biplane with a small square section covered fuselage.

Survivors
A Model XII, factory No.32 built by Edward and Milton Korn in Benoist's shop is on display at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. The aircraft had been rebuilt with modifications in 1917 after a 13 August 1913 accident which killed one of its builders, Milton Korn. It was donated to the Air and Space museum in 1949, and restored in 1981.

Specifications (Benoist Land Tractor Type XII)

See also

References

External links

Biplanes
Land Tractor
Aircraft first flown in 1912
Praga E-40. The Praga E-40 was a single engine, two seat, biplane basic trainer, built in Czechoslovakia in the mid-1930s.

Design and development

The E-40, one of several Praga trainer designs, was a single-bay biplane with open, tandem cockpits. The swept wings had twin wooden spars and a mixture of plywood and fabric covering.  Ailerons were fitted to the lower wing and the upper wing had a cut-out on its trailing edge to enhance visibility from the forward cockpit.  The N-form interplane struts were steel and the bay braced with streamlined wires. A pair of vertical N-form struts joined the wing centre section to the upper fuselage.  The fixed tail surfaces were wood framed and plywood covered; the tailplane was strut braced from below.  Elevators and rudder were fabric covered over steel frames. The rudder had a trim tab.

The fuselage of the E-40 was a steel structure, rigidly braced at the front and wire braced aft. The nose and the upper decking were covered with detachable steel panels; fabric covering was used elsewhere.  Fuel and engine oil tanks were in the fuselage.  The E-40 was powered by a four-cylinder 63/71 kW (85/95 hp) Walter Minor air-cooled, inverted piston engine driving a two-blade propeller. It had a split type main undercarriage with wheels on V-form legs mounted just forward of the wing leading edge.  Rubber-in-compression spring units were mounted in extended hubs; the pistons of these units were held in place on a shallow, inverted V strut, itself attached to the lower fuselage via a steel tube pyramid.  The tailwheel castored and had rubber springing within the rear fuselage.

Operational history

There are no records of the E-40 entering production and it is possible that only the prototype, OK-EDA, was built.

Specifications

References

E-40
1930s Czechoslovak aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1936
ACIF. The AFP Conversion and Indexing Facility or ACIF is an Advanced Function Presentation utility program. ACIF is distributed with Print Services Facility for z/OS, z/VM, and z/VSE.

Function
The AFP Conversion and Indexing Facility (ACIF) is a batch application development utility that lets users create documents by formatting line data (record format and traditional), XML data, and unformatted ASCII files into MO:DCA (Mixed Object Document Content Architecture) documents. These and other DCA documents can then be indexed and printed with IBM Infoprint Manager or IBM Print Services Facility (PSF), viewed with the AFP Workbench Viewer, or stored in an archival system.

ACIF provides indexing and resource retrieval capabilities that let users view, distribute, archive, and retrieve document files across systems and operating systems.

Indexing
For AFP data streams ACIF uses the Tag Logical Element (TLE) structured field ('D3A090'x) to supply the indexing values. For non-AFP data the indexing values are extracted from the data stream using control statements that specify the line on the page, the column within the line, and the length of each field composing the index.

Input Formats
ACIF accepts data from an application in these formats: 
 AFP data
 Record format or traditional line data
 Mixed-mode data
 XML data
 Unformatted ASCII data (AIX and Windows only)

References

Data management software
Advanced Function Presentation
Utility software
Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.4. The Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.4 was a biplane floatplane built by the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service aircraft factory Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk from 1918. The aircraft was the first purpose-built trainer aircraft in Norwegian service and served until retired in October 1924.

Background
The M.F.4 was based on the first aircraft model built by Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk, the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.1, and was intended to replace the latter on a 1 to 1 basis. Amongst the modifications added to the M.F.4 model was such changes as a monoplane tail section and a shorter wingspan.

Production
The M.F.4 was manufactured at Marinens Flyvebaatsfabrikk's facility in Horten from 1918, the production of the trainer aircraft necessitating an expansion of the aircraft factory and the construction of a new workshop. A total of six aircraft were manufactured between 1918 and 1921. Two of the M.F.4s were constructed in 1918 by converting M.F.1 airframes. The first M.F.4 aircraft built, F.2 (II), was equipped with a Renault 130 hp V-8 engine until rebuilt with a  Scania-Vabis PD engine on 22 July 1918. The other five aircraft of the type built were all powered by the Scania-Vabis engine. The last M.F.4 to be manufactured, F.12A (II), was first test flown on 7 April 1921.

Service
The type's first flight occurred on 13 March 1918, when F.2 (II) was test flown by the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk. The M.F.4 was the first purpose-built trainer aircraft in service with the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service; the M.F.1s that had been used up until then having to be improvised in order to perform the trainer task.

In 1920 the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service and the civilian air company Det Norske Luftfartrederi cooperated on starting the first experimental civilian passenger/post route in Norway. Initiated by the Norwegian postal service, the route was flown between the port cities of Horten, Kristiania and Kristiansand. When the Supermarine Channel flying boats employed on the route suffered technical malfunctions, other military seaplanes took over several flights. Amongst the aircraft used were the M.F.4.

By the early 1920s the M.F.4 aircraft, and the preceding M.F.1, were outdated and unsuited for the service they were supposed to perform. In one accident the M.F.4 flown by the head of the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service's flying school lost its wings. The replacement for the M.F.4, the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.6, had its first flight on 3 April 1920. Even though outdated, the M.F.4 remained the most flown aircraft in the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service's inventory until retired in October 1924.

During the type's close to six years of service, three of the six aircraft were written off in crashes. No aviators were killed or injured flying the M.F.4. The last of the M.F.4s, F.6 (II), was removed from service on 2 October 1924, having flown a total of 489 hours and 40 minutes.

Specifications

References

Bibliography
 
 

1920s Norwegian military trainer aircraft
MF04
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Floatplanes
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1918
GNU cflow. GNU cflow is a flow graph generator that is part of the GNU Project. It reads a collection of C source files and generates a C flow graph of external references. It uses only sources and does not need to run the program.

History 
It was initially an implementation of the UNIX utility cflow.

cflow (UNIX utility) 
cflow is a Unix command generating a C-language flowgraph.

Besides GNU, there are other implementations of cflow, like the one for Tru64 Unix.

References

External links 
 Source code on the GNU Savannah platform.
 GNU cflow on the Free Software Directory.

C (programming language)
cflow
Compiler construction
Free documentation generators
Atair Insect. The Atair Insect is a powered paraglider in the mode of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) by Atair Aerospace Inc. 

The company showcased its LEAPP technology in 2006 at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting and Exposition.

Design
The Atair Insect uses a parafoil for its kited wing, an evolution of Domina Jalbert's invention. LEAPP is a trademark for "Long Endurance Autonomous Powered Paraglider". The Atair Insect is a Type II LEAPP UAV within Atair Aerospace's designation scheme. LEAPP (Type I) and LEAPP (Type III) are associated  powered paraglider products. 

When the engine is off, the system is a paraglider. The Atair Insect may be sized to fit applications. Altair Aerospace's other powered paraglider UAVs are the Atair Micro LEAPP and Atair LEAPP.

References

External links 
 Powered Paraglider UAVs, Family of LEAPP(TM) UAVs

Paragliders
Hang gliding