omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Meyers OTW. The Meyers OTW (Out To Win) was a 1930s United States training biplane designed by Allen Meyers and built by his Meyers Aircraft Company from 1936 to 1944.

Development
In anticipation for a demand for training aircraft caused by the introduction of a civilian war training scheme (in which civil flying schools would provide primary training for the military), Allen Meyers designed the OTW and formed the Meyers Aircraft Company to build it. The OTW was a conventional biplane with tandem seating for two in open cockpits and a fixed tailwheel landing gear.  The prototype was powered by a 125 hp (93 kW) Warner Scarab engine and it first flew on 10 May 1936. The aircraft was produced in two main variants; the OTW-145 powered by a 145 hp (108 kW) Warner Super Scarab, and the OTW-160 powered by a 160 hp (119 kW) Kinner R-5 engine.

Variants
OTW-125
Production variant with 125hp (93kW) Warner Scarab engine.
OTW-145
Production variant with 145hp (108kW) Warner Super Scarab engine.
OTW-160
Final production variant with 160hp (119kW) Kinner R-5 engine.
OTW-KR
One aircraft was re-engined with a 120hp (89kW) Ken-Royce 7G engine.

Surviving aircraft

 1 – On static display at the Combat Air Museum in Topeka, Kansas. It was acquired by the museum in late 1986.
 2 – Airworthy with Russell W. Kilmer of Yuba City, California.
 45 – Airworthy with James Kieran Padden in Longhirst, Northumberland.
 53 – Airworthy at the Pioneer Flight Museum in Kingsbury, Texas.
 57 – Airworthy with Theodore K. Heckman in Allegan, Michigan.
 70 – Airworthy with Jack Belletete of Jaffrey, New Hampshire.
 75 – Airworthy with Cecil D. Bradford of Huntersville, North Carolina.
 102 – On static display at the EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. It was the last OTW built and was assembled from parts to be the personal aircraft of Allen Meyers.

Specifications (OTW-160)

See also

References

Further reading

External links

 Aerofiles
 "Original OTW built by Allen Meyers on display at Combat Air Museum"

1930s United States civil trainer aircraft
OTW
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1936
Muniz M-11. The Muniz M-11 was an experimental two-seat high-wing strut-braced monoplane trainer for the Brazilian Air Force, which designated it TP-1 (Treinador Primário modelo 1 [Primary Trainer model 1]).  The design is due to Col. Antonio M. Muniz, director of the Brazilian Technical Division, Army Air Service.

Manufacture of Muniz designed aircraft was initially the responsibility of Companhia Nacional de Navegação Costiera (CNNC), set up as a military aircraft workshop in the 1930s.  The company was renamed Fabrica Brasileira de Avioes in the early 1940s.  CNNA (Companhia Nacional de Navegação Aérea) took over manufacture of all Muniz designed aircraft c. 1941.  The Muniz M-11 design then evolved into the CNNA HL-1.  It was powered by a Continental flat-four A65-8 44.7 kW (60 hp) engine.  As the HL-1, it was in production until 1950.

References

Bibliography

 Emory, John M. G., The Source Book of World War II Aircraft, Blandford Press, 1986 .
 Green, William; Fricker, John, The Air Forces of the World: Their History, Development, and Present Strength, Hanover House, 1958 .
 Mondey, David (ed); Taylor, Michael (rev), The new Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft, Chartwell Books, 2000 .
 Taylor, Michael, J. H. (ed), Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation, Studio Editions, 1993 .

Further reading
 Roberto Pereira de Andrade, "Muniz M-11", Enciclopédia de Aviões Brasileiros, p. 281–, Editora Globo, 1997 .
 Roberto Pereira de Andrade, "Muniz M-11", A Construção Aeronáutica no Brasil, 1910-1976, p. 41–, Editora Brasiliense, 1976 .
 Francisco C. Pereira Netto, "Muniz M-11", Aviação Militar Brasileira, 1916-1984, p. 282–, Revista Aeronáutica Editora, 1984 .

1930s Brazilian military trainer aircraft
Muniz aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined piston aircraft
FBA 17. The FBA 17 was a training flying boat produced in France in the 1920s.

Design and development
Similar in general layout to the aircraft that FBA had produced during World War I, the Type 17 was a conventional two-bay biplane with unequal-span, unstaggered wings and side-by-side open cockpits. The pusher engine was mounted on struts in the interplane gap. Apart from their use by the French Navy, a small number were sold to the Polish Navy, the Brazilian Air Force, and civil operators as well. Some versions were built as amphibians, and others had fittings to allow them to be catapulted from warships.

In 1931, the US Coast Guard purchased an example for evaluation, and being pleased with the design, arranged for the type to be built under licence by the Viking Flying Boat Company in New Haven, Connecticut. Six aircraft were eventually produced and served with the Coast Guard under the designation OO until the outbreak of World War II.

Variants
17 HE.2(Hydravion d'École) 2-seat trainer, Hispano-Suiza 8A-powered, (over 300 built).
17 HL.1(Hydravion de Liaison) 1-seat catapulatable liaison aircraft, Hispano-Suiza 8A-powered, (1 built)
17 HL.22-seat catapultable liaison aircraft, Hispano-Suiza 8A-powered, (10 built)
17 HMT.2(Hydravion Mixte de Transport) 2-seat amphibious transport aircraft, Hispano-Suiza 8A-powered, (37 built)
A FBA-17HMT2 plane called Lubliniak, was bought by the Airborne and Antigas Defence League (LOPP) with was funds donated by the readers of Głos Lubelski, for use in propaganda flights across central and eastern Poland.
17 HMB.217 HMT 2s already in service with the French Navy, were redesignated HMB 2, after being fitted with a bomb rack on the port side of the hull.
17 HMT.44-seat amphibious transport aircraft, Hispano-Suiza 8A-powered, (2 built)
17 HT.4(Hydravion de Transport) 4-seat transport aircraft, Hispano-Suiza 8A-powered, (35 built)
171 HE.22-seat trainer, Lorraine Mizar-powered, (1 built).
172 HE.22-seat trainer, Gnome et Rhône 5B-powered, (5 built).
172 HMT.22-seat amphibious transport aircraft, Gnome et Rhône 5B-powered,  (1 built).
172 HT.44-seat transport aircraft, Gnome et Rhône 5B-powered,  (1 built).
172/2The HT.4 was redesignated Type 172/2, Gnome et Rhône 5B-powered, after it was fitted with extra fuel tanks.
Viking V-2French-built HT.4s converted to 2-seaters (4 converted)
Viking OO-1longer-span, Wright R-760-powered version of V-2 produced for USCG (5 built)

Operators

Brazilian Air Force
Brazilian Naval Aviation

French Navy

Polish Navy

United States Coast Guard

Specifications (17 HE.2)

See also

References

Further reading

External links
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  

1920s French military trainer aircraft
Flying boats
FBA aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1923
Blitz++. Blitz++ is a high-performance vector mathematics library written in C++. This library is intended for use in scientific applications that might otherwise be implemented with Fortran or MATLAB.

Blitz++ utilizes advanced C++ template metaprogramming techniques, including expression templates, to provide speed-optimized mathematical operations on sequences of data without sacrificing the natural syntax provided by other mathematical programming systems. Indeed, it has been recognized as a pioneer in the area of C++ template metaprogramming.

References

External links

C++ numerical libraries
Free software programmed in C++
Nardi FN.305. The Nardi FN.305 was an Italian fighter trainer and liaison monoplane developed by the Fratelli Nardi company.

Development
The FN.305 was designed as a trainer and liaison aircraft and the prototype first flew on 19 January 1935. The FN.305 was a low-wing cantilever monoplane of mixed construction. It had tailskid landing gear, with the main gear retracting inwards. It was powered by a nose-mounted 200 hp (149 kW) Fiat A.70S inline piston engine. The prototype was a tandem two-seater with an enclosed cockpit. It was intended to produce both single-seat and two-seat variants and the next prototype was a single-seat fighter trainer followed by a two-seat basic trainer prototype which both had open cockpits. 

Two long-range FN.305D variants were then produced powered by a 200 hp (149 kW) Walter Bora radial engine. The first FN.305D was a two-seater which was used on a record-breaking flight between Rome and Addis Ababa in March 1939 gaining a class record for covering the 4463.8 km (2,773,68 miles) at an average speed of 240 km/h (149 mph). The second FN.305D was a single-seater bought by Yugoslavia for an aborted attempt at a nonstop North Atlantic flight.

The prototype was re-engined with an Alfa Romeo 115 engine as the FN.305A which then entered production by Piaggio as the Nardi works were not large enough. The Italian Air Force had ordered 258 aircraft, most of them two-seat FN.305A fighter trainers and liaison aircraft. A few of the aircraft were completed as single-seat open-cockpit FN.305Cs and enclosed-cockpit FN.305Ds. Following the Italian order in 1938 nine aircraft were sold to Chile and 31 to Romania. Romania then built 124 aircraft under licence by SET. The largest export order came from France, which ordered 300 but only 41 had been delivered when Italy declared war on France in June 1940. They were used as liaison aircraft and fighter trainers. The final export customer was Hungary which ordered 50.

An improved version was developed as the Nardi FN.315.

Variants

FN.305
Prototype
FN.305A
Two-seater and main production variant.
FN.305B
Single-seat open cockpit variant.
FN.305C
Single-seat enclosed cockpit variant
FN.305D
Long-range variant with a 200hp (149kW) Walter Bora radial engine, two built, one single-seater and one two-seater.

Operators

Bulgarian Air Force - one aircraft

French Air Force - 41 aircraft

Royal Hungarian Air Force - 50 aircraft

Regia Aeronautica - 285 aircraft
Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force

Aeronautica Militare Italiana operated 10 aircraft until 1948

Royal Romanian Air Force - 31 aircraft

Chilean Air Force - 9 aircraft

Specifications (FN.305A)

See also

References

Bibliography

 
 

FN.305
1930s Italian military trainer aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
FN.305
Aircraft first flown in 1935
Aircraft with retractable conventional landing gear
Single-engined piston aircraft
Nardi FN.315. The Nardi FN.315 was an Italian training monoplane developed from the earlier Nardi FN.305 and produced by the Fratelli Nardi company.

Development
First flown on 10 July 1938 the FN.315 was an improved version of the FN.305. It had a revised tail unit, improved cockpit canopy and wing improvements. The FN.315 was a low-wing cantilever monoplane of mixed construction. It had tailskid landing gear, with the main gear retracting inwards, and room for two crew in tandem in an enclosed cockpit. It was powered by a nose-mounted inline piston engine and various engines were evaluated during flight trials, originally with a 205 hp (153 kW) Alfa-Romeo 115 and also a 200 hp (149 kW) Argus As 10E and a 230 hp (172 kW) Hirth HM.508.

The aircraft went into production and six Hirth-powered aircraft were produced, including two for the Swiss Air Force. A further 25 Alfa-Romeo powered aircraft were built for the Italian Air Force and were used as intermediate trainers.

Operators

Regia Aeronautica

Royal Hungarian Air Force

Royal Romanian Air Force
Romanian Air Force - Postwar.

Swiss Air Force

Specifications (FN.315 Alfa Romeo)

See also

References

 
 

FN.315
1930s Italian military trainer aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1938
TCDD DH3600. DH3600 were diesel-hydraulic locomotive built for shunting operations on the Turkish State Railways. 38 units were built by Tüvasaş under licence from Maschinenbau Kiel (MaK). In 1980-81 the shunters were rebuilt with Cummins Diesel KT1150L engines.

References

External links
 Trains of Turkey page on DH3600

MaK locomotives
Turkish State Railways diesel locomotives
C locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of Turkey
Railway locomotives introduced in 1968
Shunting locomotives
Accuride International. Accuride Corporation (Indiana), an unrelated company, is a manufacturer of vehicle wheels.
Accuride International Inc. is a manufacturer of commercial-grade drawer slides, linear track systems, and electronic locking solutions for cabinetry in commercial, residential and industrial applications, based in Santa Fe Springs, California and has about 2000 employees.

Accuride components can be found in major appliances, electronic enclosures, automobiles, office and residential fixtures, and industrial hardware. Accuride currently holds nearly 400 enforceable patents related to movement and access control solutions worldwide. The company is headquartered in Santa Fe Springs, Calif., and has manufacturing facilities in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Accuride has about 1,000,000 square feet of manufacturing space in China, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the UK, and the US.  Its manufacturing plant in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States closed in 2001.

History

Fred Jordan founded Accuride in South Gate, California in 1962. and began as a small tool and die shop founded by Fred Jordan in 1962 in South Gate, California. The company produced slides for tape drives and copy machines.

Amid steady growth, the company moved to a larger facility in Santa Fe Springs four years later. Accuride expanded its manufacturing to sites in Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom in 1970s. By 2006, Accuride had expanded production to Mexico and China.

Products 
Accuride is best known for its large array of premium-grade drawer slides that support applications anywhere from 35 to 1,323 pounds.

The Model 3832, a medium-duty side-mount slide, remains one of the most popular and most replicated slides on the market. The present 3800 family comes in many variants, such as Touch Release, Easy-Close, and Over-Travel. The 9300, a family of heavy-duty slides, is another popular model commonly found in factories and commercial transportation.

Accuride has since expanded into linear track systems, such as those used on Britain’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.

It has also expanded into cabinet-level RFID electronic access control (EAC) under Senseon Secure Access. The latter has been used in premium retail, upscale residences, and healthcare facilities.

References

Companies based in Los Angeles County, California
Privately held companies based in California
Manufacturing companies based in California
Manufacturing companies established in 1962
1962 establishments in California
Digital nervous system. Digital nervous system is a phrase, popularly associated with Bill Gates of Microsoft, used to describe a vision for how the IT infrastructure of an enterprise could be analogous to the autonomic nervous system of a biological organism.

Gates made extensive use of the term in his 1999 book Business @ the Speed of Thought.  The actual phrase digital nervous system may not have originated with Gates however, as it has been reported that Judith Dayhoff used the term before Gates did.

Steve Ballmer attempted to explain the digital nervous system by saying the following:

If you think of the human body, what does our nervous system let us do? It lets us hear, see, take input.  It lets us think and analyze and plan. It lets us make decisions and communicate and take action. Every company essentially has a nervous system: companies take inputs, they think, they plan, they communicate, they take action. The question is how does the nervous system in your company operate? Is the IT infrastructure really adding value?
 
Gates himself offered the following explanation as part of a keynote speech at Microsoft's Second Annual CEO Summit in 1998.

The analogy, of course, is to the biological nervous system where you always have the information you need. You always are alert to the most important things, and you block out the information that's not important. And companies really need to have that same kind of thing: the information that's valuable getting to the people who need to know about it.

Digital nervous system has also been described as being synonymous with the term 'Zero Latency Enterprise', another phrase representing the way an enterprise uses IT systems to rapidly communicate between customers, employees and trading partners.

References

External links 
 
 

Business software
Service-oriented (business computing)
Software architecture
Engineering and the Mind's Eye. Engineering and the Mind's Eye (1992) is a book by Eugene S. Ferguson, an engineer and historian of science and technology.  It was published by MIT Press.  In it, Ferguson discusses the importance of the mind's eye for the practicing engineer, including spatial visualization and visual thinking.

Preface 
A major argument of the book is summarized as follows in the preface:

Chapters
The book comprises 7 chapters and two additional sections on notes about the text and its figures.  The chapters are:
The Nature of Engineering Design
The Mind's Eye
Origins of Modern Engineering
The Tools of Visualization
The Development and Dissemination of Engineering Knowledge
The Making of an Engineer
The Gap between Promise and Performance.

References

External links
 Eugene Shallcross Ferguson papers at Hagley Museum and Library

1992 non-fiction books
Engineering books
Science books
Allied Works Council. The Allied Works Council was an organisation set up to oversee and organise military construction works in Australia during World War II.

Established in February 1942, with their first offices in Melbourne, the Allied Works Council was responsible for carrying out any works required by the Allied Forces including providing any equipment, materials or workmen required to carry out these works. By 30 June 1943 they had 4,609 administrative and technical staff and a enrolment in the Civil Constructional Corps of 66,274 and 2,521 in the Civil Alien Corps which was made up primarily of Italian internees. In these roles they were considered 'enemy aliens' and 'prisoners of war'.

Edward Granville Theodore, a former Premier of Queensland (1919–25) and Federal Treasurer (1929–31) was appointed Director-General of the Council.
Following the war, the work of the council evolved into the Ministry for Works.

References

External links
Allied Works Council Information
National Archives of Australia Fact Sheet

Military history of Australia during World War II
1942 establishments in Australia
FBA 19. The FBA 19 was a flying boat bomber developed in France in 1924 by Franco-British Aviation.

Design 
Similar in configuration to FBA's wartime designs, it was a conventional biplane flying boat with open cockpits for the three crewmembers. Unlike the firm's earlier designs, however, the engine was mounted tractor-fashion in a streamlined nacelle mounted in the interplane gap.

Operational history 
The prototype set a world altitude record for its class with a 500 kg payload, but despite this performance, the French Navy did not order it, either in its original form or when it was offered as an amphibian. Another version was built as a commercial transport, but the only example built was sold to Air Union.

Variants
FBA 19 HB.2 (Hydravion de Bombardement) -  2-seat reconnaissance bomber; 9 built.
FBA 19 HMB.2 (Hydravion Mixte de Bombardement) -  2-seat amphibian reconnaissance bomber.
FBA 19 HMT.3 (Hydravion Mixte de Transport) -  3-seat amphibian transport; 1 built.

Operators

Air Union

Nationalist Chinese Navy

Specifications (HB.2)

See also

References

Further reading

External links

 Уголок неба

1920s French bomber aircraft
Flying boats
FBA aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Sunwah Linux. RAYS Linux (previously Sun Wah Linux) was a Chinese Debian-based Linux distribution.

Development and distribution

Sunwah Linux was a Debian-based distribution. It was the first Chinese Linux distribution to receive Linux Standard Base (LSB) certification. The system architecture was designed in Hong Kong and the programming was developed in Nanjing. The distribution was sponsored by the Sunwah Group in Hong Kong and the Jiangsu Provincial Government of China.

Sunwah - PearL Linux (abbreviated SWP), the technology training entity of the group, has been providing research assistance, testing, and training support for the distribution. SWP is a joint establishment of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Sunwah Group.

In 2005, Sunwah Linux was installed in over 140,000 PCs in primary and secondary schools in China.

Awards
In April 2006, Sunwah Linux won the Best Linux Desktop Application Award at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Boston. According to Albert Chung, who presented the distribution to the judges, "The competition was fierce.  We were proud of our Chinese Linux desktop distribution being recognized by industry experts and judges."

References
Largest Asian Linux Rollout Ever: 140,000-Plus PCs Deploying to Chinese Schools
 Teaching Children To Love Linux
Chinese Ed. Dept. in Major Linux Buy
Debian Debuts in China

See also
Sunwah – PearL Linux

External links 
OpenRAYS.org, the community website of the distribution, at the Internet Archive, January 2014
SunWah Linux, the official website of the distribution, at the Internet Archive, February 2015
RAYS at DistroWatch

Debian-based distributions
Discontinued Linux distributions
Chinese-language Linux distributions
Linux distributions
FBA 21. The FBA 21 and 23 were small flying boat airliners built in France in the mid-1920s. Their development was an attempt by FBA to develop a commercial version of their FBA 19 bomber which had failed to attract orders from military buyers. Retaining the same basic design as their predecessor, the Model 21 added an enclosed cabin for four passengers. Unfortunately for FBA, they aroused as little interest as their military counterparts, and only a handful were built in a number of slight variations, including one example of a dedicated mail plane.

In 1926, Maurice Noguès had recently joined Compagnie des Messageries Transaériennes (CMT) and was looking for an aircraft to use on a new Paris-Saigon route. Accordingly, FBA rebuilt one of the Type 21s to optimise it for long-distance flight and redesignated it the Type 23. The W-12 engine was replaced with a radial, and the aircraft was generally lightened to allow for greater fuel capacity. Painted bright orange, the aircraft was extensively tested throughout late 1926, and apart from an early mishap while being flown by Noguès himself, flew over  without incident. Nevertheless, the CMT contract went to the CAMS 53 and no further examples of the type were built.

Variants

21/1 HMT.5amphibian airliner with Hispano-Suiza 12Ga W-12 engine (3 built)
21/2amphibian airliner with Lorraine 12Eb W-12 engine (2 built)
21/3flying boat airliner with Gnome et Rhône 9Ab radial engine (1 converted from 21/1)
21/4 HT.3amphibian mailplane with Lorraine 12Ed W-12 engine (1 converted from 21/2)
23long-distance flying boat airliner with Gnome et Rhône 9Ab radial engine (1 converted from 21/1)

Specifications (21/1)

References

Further reading

External links
 Уголок неба

1920s French airliners
Flying boats
FBA aircraft
Biplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft