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Hi-Tech Automotive. Hi-Tech Automotive is a low volume, specialist car builder and design house located in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Most of the vehicles produced are exported, notably to the US and UK. The main distributor of the cars built by Hi-Tech is Superformance. In December 2005, Hi-Tech Automotive transferred the ownership of its subsidiary, Superformance, to the Hillbank Automotive Group, which is privately owned by Lance Stander.

All Superformance cars are originally built at Hi-Tech Automotive's  plant in Port Elizabeth, South Africa before they are shipped as complete rolling chassis minus engine. Hi-Tech also supplies customers with non-road cars ready to race on the track.

Cars produced

Superformance
The vehicles that Hi-Tech has produced or worked on includes:

 Superformance MKIII (a replica of the third generation 427 Shelby Cobra)
 Superformance MKII FIA
 Superformance MKII Slab Side
 Superformance Daytona Coupe (Discontinued)
 Superformance GT40 continuation series
 Superformance 1963 Corvette Grand Sport continuation series
 Superformance S-1 roadster (a Lotus Seven replica) (Discontinued)

Shelby Legendary Cars
 Shelby CSX 6000 MKIII
 Shelby CSX 7000 MKII FIA
 Shelby CSX 8000 MKII Slab Side
 Shelby CSX 9000 Daytona Coupe

Partnerships
 Noble M12 and M400
 Rossion Q1
 Optimal Energy Joule

The first 70 or so ROSSION Q1s were built at Hi-Tech. The ROSSION Q1 is an evolution of the NOBLE M12/M400 that was produced after NOBLE sold off the rights, But not the name to the M12/M400 design. The design rights, moulds and tooling were bought by Ian Grunes and Dean Rosen, The former US importers of the NOBLE cars and redesigned into the ROSSION Q1. Later all the Jigs, Tooling and Moulds were transferred from Hi-Tech to the Rossion production facility at the Former MOSLER factory in Florida.

Perana Z-One, with bodyshell designed by Zagato. Production of the Z-One suffered with the downturn of the world economy shortly after its release and a partnership in 2012 between Hi-Tech Automotive and AC cars of England saw the Z-One re-badged as the 378GT Zagato.

Riverside Racers FIA, a Canadian company that purchased the COBRA FIA body mold from Hi Tech (USA) and partnered with Hi Tech Automotive to produce a Cobra FIA replica. A slab side version was also developed and 50 cars were sold in the UK as the AC Classic. Models are sold in the USA as the Superformance MKII FIA or Superformance MKII Slab Side. Shelby Legendary Cars offer the CSX 7000 Cobra FIA and the CSX 8000 Cobra Slab Side.

References

External links
 
 Hi-Tech Automotive - a great South African success story - via Cartorque (archived)

Lotus Seven replicas
Sports car manufacturers
Kit car manufacturers
Car manufacturers of South Africa
Economy of the Eastern Cape
Gqeberha

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BSPS. BSPS may refer to:

 British Society for the Philosophy of Science, philosophical society based in the United Kingdom
 Bhartiya Shikshan Prasarak Sanstha, Indian Educational institution
 British Show Pony Society, British organisation
 Bell System Practices (BSPs), compilation of technical publications which describes the best methods of engineering, constructing, installing, and maintaining the telephone plant of the Bell System under direction of AT&T and Bell Telephone Laboratories
Flux (software company). Flux is a software company that develops and licenses software products targeted for workflow, job scheduling, and managed file transfer. Headquartered in Boulder, Flux also has offices in Houston and Memphis.

Company 
Flux was founded in 2000 by David Sims when it transitioned from a one-person consulting shop to a software company that sold an automatic job scheduler software component for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition. The company has been self-funded since its inception.

Since then, the company's products have expanded into the following markets:

 Workflow
 Job scheduling
 Managed file transfer

Partners 
File Transfer Consulting has partnered with Flux to provide a resource for designing managed file transfer systems. Flux is one of the tools that File Transfer Consulting uses to help meet its clients' managed file transfer needs. File Transfer Consulting's staff has developed managed file transfer tools that are used by more than 1,200 enterprises worldwide.

See also 
 List of job scheduler software

References

External links 
 
 

Job scheduling
Managed file transfer
Financial software companies
Software companies established in 2000
Haufe Buzzer 2. The Haufe Buzzer 2 is an American high-wing, strut-braced single-seat motor glider that was designed and constructed by Walter Haufe.

Design and development
After Haufe's earlier Buzzer was deemed less than successful, due to the insufficiently reliable Nelson Aircraft engine, Haufe retired that design and designed a new aircraft, which became the Buzzer 2. Intended to be a cross between a conventional sailplane and a light aircraft the aircraft was built with a  wing span and has a 16:1 glide ratio.

The Buzzer 2 is constructed with a welded steel tube fuselage and a wooden wing, all covered with doped aircraft fabric covering. The relatively low 8:1 aspect ratio wing uses a single spar and is supported by a single lift strut. The wing employs a modified NACA 2412 airfoil. The landing gear is a fixed monowheel and two wing-mounted outrigger wheels that support the wing during taxiing. The engine is a Curtiss snowmobile engine that turns at a maximum rpm of 6000, powering the propeller through an oil-immersed 2:1 chain reduction drive, giving a propeller speed of 3000 rpm.

Only one Buzzer 2 was constructed.

Operational history
Haufe reported that the aircraft uses  to take-off and climbs at about 500 feet per minute (2.5 m/s). The aircraft was still on the US Federal Aviation Administration registry in July 2011, registered in the Experimental - Amateur-built category.

Specifications (Buzzer 2)

See also

References

1970s United States sailplanes
Homebuilt aircraft
Tapeworm Railroad. The Tapeworm Railroad (Gettysburg Rail Road) was a railway line planned by Congressman Thaddeus Stevens and nicknamed by opponents ridiculing a lengthy serpentine section around the Green Ridge of South Mountain after an orator compared the path to a tapeworm depiction on a product's packaging. Switchbacks were planned on the west slope at Hughs Forge along the E Br Antietam Creek ("Cold Spring Cr" in 1839) and on the east slope at Stevens' 1822 Maria Furnace along Toms Creek (Monocacy River), with three east slope tunnels through spurs of Jacks Mountain.

In 1836, Herman Haupt had surveyed the "road from Gettysburg across South Mountain to the Potomac" and in 1838, the rail "bed" was "graded for a number of miles, never got further than Monterey", and included the following (west-to-east):
 single-arch roadway bridge over Toms Creek west of Iron Springs, Pennsylvania
 multi-arch bridge
 viaduct at Virginia Mills
 deep cut near Marsh Creek
 elevated railbed on banks of Willoughby Run
 McPherson Ridge railway cut, site of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg military engagements on McPherson Ridge
 Seminary Ridge railway cut

After Thaddeus Stevens lost his position on the Canal Commission, the commonwealth ended the railroad's financing and work was suspended in 1838, and an 1839 survey was ordered of the planned line.

The Tapeworm Railroad right-of-way was later used by the Susquehanna, Gettysburg and Potomac Railway and its successor, the Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway to build a line from Gettysburg west to Highfield, Maryland.

References

External links

Defunct Pennsylvania railroads
Predecessors of the Western Maryland Railway
Railway companies established in 1838
Railway companies disestablished in 1839
1838 establishments in Pennsylvania
American companies established in 1838
American companies disestablished in 1839
Chain World. Chain World is a video game designed by Jason Rohrer, and built on the game Minecraft. Chain World won the 2011 Game Design Challenge. The goal of the challenge was to create a game that could become a religion. The official name of the challenge was GDC: The Game Design Challenge: Bigger Than Jesus.

Only one known copy of the game exists on a customized USB flash drive. The game was designed to be played by only one player at a time who would alter the game world. Future players were to be chosen by the current USB drive holder. After his GDC presentation, Rohrer passed the game on, apparently at random, to audience member Jia Ji. Jia Ji created controversy by selling the game on eBay for charity, and imposing his own set of rules about who could play Chain World after the auction winner.

The current location of the flash drive is unknown, though in June 2012, Positional Super Ko, believed to be the winner of Jia Ji's auction, tweeted that they still have the drive.  In February 2016, Positional Super Ko tweeted again that they no longer have the drive.

The game was originally created using Minecraft Beta 1.8 version, using Chain World as the seed. The USB stick itself was given a custom treatment by Rohrer to create the appearance of an ancient artifact.

References

External links 
Video of Jason Rohrer's Presentation
eBay Chain World Auction
"official" Chain World website by Jia Ji (defunct)
Mirror of original site (defunct)
 A new kind of minecraft chain world on reddit

Indie games
Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy. Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy () is a federal institution of higher professional education (ФБОУ ВПО ) which trains professionals for civil and merchant fleet.

History 
In February 1919, a naval technical school was created.

In 1949, it was named after Admiral S. O. Makarov.

In 1985-1987 the school took part in an unusual scientific research (scientific historical reenactment). The expedition of the Soviet Geographical Society and Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR was a reconstruction of the passage along the medieval trade route "from the Varangians to the Greeks". More than 100 people took part in the expedition, but the crews of the sailing ships were made up of cadets from this school. As a result, it was experimentally proven that on the merchant sailing ships typical for the 9th - 11th centuries, the 2,720 km route from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea could be covered in 90-95 days' passages.

The institution was established by the merger of two much older institutions on 11 September 2012, by order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation.  It is located in St. Petersburg, Russia.

References

Universities and colleges in Saint Petersburg
Maritime colleges in Russia
SOLO-TREC. The SOLO-TREC (Sounding Oceanographic Lagrangrian Observer Thermal RECharging) is a profiling float that uses a novel thermal recharging engine powered by the natural temperature differences found at different ocean depths to cycle up and down in the ocean. The research and prototype were developed by researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego.  The project name stands for "Sounding Oceanographic Lagrangrian Observer Thermal RECharging" vehicle.

History
Research and technology development for SOLO-TREC began in 2004 with funding provided by JPL Research & Technology Development program (2005–2007) and the Office of Naval Research (2008–2010). On November 30, 2009, the first SOLO-TREC prototype was deployed 161 kilometers southwest of Honolulu by a group of scientists and engineers from JPL and Scripps.

Design
The original prototype weighed 84 kilograms, dived autonomously to depths of 500 meters, and generated 1.7 watt-hours of energy per dive. SOLO-TREC draws upon the ocean's thermal energy as it alternately encounters warm surface water and colder conditions at depth. Key to its operation are the carefully selected waxy substances known as phase-change materials that are contained in 10 external tubes, which house enough material to allow net power generation. As the float surfaces and encounters warm temperatures, the material melts and expands; when it dives and enters cooler waters, the material solidifies and contracts. The expansion of the wax pressurizes oil stored inside the float. This oil periodically drives a hydraulic motor that generates electricity and recharges the vehicle's batteries. Energy from the rechargeable batteries powers the float's hydraulic system, which changes the float's volume (and hence buoyancy), allowing it to move vertically.

Recent Developments
SOLO-TREC has completed more than 450 dives from the ocean surface to a depth of 500 meters (1,640 feet) and is reporting temperature and salinity profiles three times per day. Designers control the depth to which the instrument dives through its hydraulic system. Its thermal recharging engine produces about 1.7 watt-hours, or 6,100 joules, of energy per dive, enough electricity to operate the vehicle’s science instruments, GPS receiver, communications device and buoyancy-control pump. SOLO-TREC has the potential to replace current ocean monitoring currently done by 3,200 battery-powered Argo floats deployed previously to measure temperature, salinity, and velocity. The US Navy is also exploring the use of thermal recharging technology for the next generation of autonomous submersible vehicles. Scalable for use on most robotic oceanographic vehicles, this technology breakthrough could usher in a new generation of autonomous underwater vehicles capable of virtually indefinite ocean monitoring for climate and marine animal studies, exploration and surveillance.

References

External links 
 SOLO-TREC Home Page

Submarines
Robots of the United States
Couzinet. Couzinet may refer to:

People

 Émile Couzinet (1896-1964), French film director
 René Couzinet (1904-1956), founder of French aerospace manufacturer
 Maurice Couzinet, actor
 David Couzinet, rugby union player

Industry

 Société des Avions René Couzinet French aerospace manufacturer  
 Couzinet 10 'Arc en Ciel'
 Couzinet 21
 Couzinet 22
 Couzinet 27 'Arc en Ciel'
 Couzinet 30
 Couzinet 33 'Biarritz'
 Couzinet 33 No.2
 Couzinet 40
 Couzinet 70 'Arc en Ciel III'. 1930s French three-engined commercial monoplane built by Société des Avions René Couzinet.
 Couzinet 80
 Couzinet 100
 Couzinet 101
 Couzinet 103
Steam mill. A steam mill is a type of grinding mill using a stationary steam engine to power its mechanism.

 And did those feet in ancient time, Albion Flour Mills, first steam mill in London from around 1790
 Aurora Steam Grist Mill, a historic grist mill located in Aurora, Cayuga County, New York, United States
 Cincinnati Steam Paper Mill, the first steam-powered mill in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
 Sutherland Steam Mill Museum, a restored steam woodworking mill from the 1890s located in Denmark, Nova Scotia, Canada

References

External links

Grinding mills
Steam power
Cramlington Cramcraft. The Cramlington Cramcraft was a simple, single-seat, primary training glider, designed and built in the United Kingdom by Cramlington Aircraft Ltd. at Cramlington Aerodrome in 1930. About three were built.

Design and development

The Cramcraft was a single-seat primary glider trainer, aimed at newcomers to the sport and designed with simplicity, robustness and low cost in mind rather than aerodynamic performance. It was a wooden aircraft with wings of rectangular planform built around two box spars which, like the ribs, were made from spruce and plywood. Ailerons reached to the wing tips but no airbrakes were fitted. The tail surfaces were carried on a narrow, flat boom formed by two parallel beams from the wing leading edge, braced together and fabric covered. Both the boom-mounted tailplane and elevators it carried were rectangular in plan, though the latter had a cutout for rudder movement and extended beyond the tailplane. The rudder was mounted on a very narrow fin and initially extended further below the boom than above but was later modified so that little projected below and the upper profile became more rounded.

Initially the pilot's seat was mounted well below the wing leading edge on the narrow edge of a board or plank. The under edge of this board was shaped to curve up forwards and served as a skid.  The board was fixed to the wing spars by two pairs of parallel V-form lift struts, the angle between them being unusually small. This arrangement left the pilot completely exposed and a later version placed him in a short nacelle. Both wings and tail were further wire braced, with lift wires from the fuselage and above from a pair of inverted V-struts mounted on the two boom beams.

Operational history

The first serious testing was on 5 October 1930.  Several pilots flew the Cramcraft, though no flights of more than 30 seconds were achieved that day. It is probable that three Cramcrafts were built, at least one of them flying with the Newcastle Gliding Club and another with the Sunderland club, both near to Cramlington.

Specifications (early version)

References

1930s British sailplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1930
International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. The International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 1991 by the University of Zielona Góra in partnership with De Gruyter Poland and Lubuskie Scientific Society, under the auspices of the Committee on Automatic Control and Robotics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The editor-in-chief is Józef Korbicz (University of Zielona Góra). The journal covers various fields related to control theory, applied mathematics, scientific computing, and computer science.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 1.6.

References

External links

Computer science journals
English-language journals
Open access journals
Academic journals established in 1991
Quarterly journals
Polish Academy of Sciences academic journals
Control theory journals
Applied mathematics journals
Scientific computing journals
Pulse Ejector Thrust Augmentor. A Pulse Ejector Thrust Augmentor or PETA is a proprietary pulse jet engine developed by Boeing.
The Boeing PETA design embeds the pulse jet inside a thrust augmenting duct which entrains surrounding air into the exhaust stream. This entrained air improves thrust and cools the pulse jet. Boeing may use the PETA in its Light Aerial Multi-purpose Vehicle (LAMV) Future Combat System.

Advantages
The pulse jet engine's ability to be almost instantly throttled, with spoolup/spooldown time from minimum to max thrust and vice versa of around of 1–1,5 seconds, and startup and shutdown times of less than five seconds, would be advantageous in a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, where quick response to control input is useful.  
The ability to provide upward thrust and thus decouple vertical and axial movement of the aircraft.
Valveless pulse jet engines are insensitive to sand and small debris.
The engine's thrust augmenters can be incorporated as load bearing structures in the aircraft's superstructure, thus reducing overall weight.
The design features no moving parts, which the creators claim increases reliability compared to conventional engines with moving parts.
Multiple engines can be assembled into an array, allowing scalability to heavy-lifting applications.
Arranging the engines in an array allows for distributed, highly redundant thrust, thus increasing reliability.

Disadvantages
Pulse jet engines are notorious for being loud. Owners of large engines (1800N thrust and above) have reported receiving noise complaints from people who were shielded from the "test site" by 7 km of hilly terrain covered by a dense forest.

References

External links 
 Wired.com
 Google Patents US6883304

Pulsejet engines
Aircraft engines
Martin Bencher. Martin Bencher (Scandinavia) A/S is a Scandinavian shipping and freight forwarding company, which was founded in the United Kingdom in 1881.

Founded in 1997 by No H. Drewsen and Peter Thorson Jensen, Martin Bencher Group was acquired by Maersk in 2023.

History

Business areas 

Martin Bencher Group transports all kinds of cargo - and specialize in the handling of PROJECTS and OVERSIZED / HEAVY cargo.

General freight forwarding

Shipping

Engineering and project management

Cargo handling and technical services

Port and agency services

Inland services

References

External links 
 
 Global Project Logistics
 Danish Marine and Offshore Group

Shipping companies of Denmark
Companies based in Aarhus
Danish companies established in 1881
2023 mergers and acquisitions
Storie index. The Storie index is a method of soil rating based on soil characteristics that govern the land's potential use and productivity capacity. Developed by R. Earl Storie at University of California, Berkeley in the 1930s as a method of land valuation, it is independent of other physical or economic factors that might determine the desirability of growing certain plants in a given location.

The evaluation is easy to be realized, being this an advantage of this method.
A variety of categories are comprised in few categories.

Four or five parameters are evaluated:
A: Soil depth and texture;
B: Soil permeability;
C: Soil chemical characteristics;
D: Drainage, Surface runoff;
E: Climate (only if it is not homogeneous, if so than it should not be included in the formula);

The index is calculated from the multiplication of these parameters, that is:
Sindex = A x B x C x D x E

The disadvantage of this method is that if we have a value of zero in any category, then the result will be zero and won't be suitable for using. Another disadvantage is that the ratings are subjective. 
This methodology was updated in again in 2008 by O'Geen et al. to correct for some of the subjectivity. http://anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/pdf/8335.pdf

References

2 O’Geen, Anthony Toby, Susan B. Southard and Randal J. Southard. “A Revised Storie Index for Use with Digital Soil Information.” Publication 8335, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, September 2008. http://anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/pdf/8335.pdf
3 Storie, R. Earl. “An Index for Rating the Agricultural Value of Soils,” Bulletin, California Agricultural Experiment Station, University of California, 1937.

Pedology
Agriculture
National Access and Scaffolding Confederation. The National Access and Scaffolding Confederation (NASC) is a United Kingdom construction trade association representing companies involved in scaffolding and access work.

Founded in 1945, the NASC represents its sector as a member of Build UK (formerly UK Contractors Group). It is also a member of the Trade Association Forum.

The NASC offers its member companies an additional source of recognition for customer assurance, as well as information and support regarding security, training, and legal issues. It also hosts regular events for industry members.

References

External links
 NASC website
 Trade Association Forum

Construction trade groups based in the United Kingdom
Organisations based in the City of London
Organizations established in 1945
Scaffolding
1945 establishments in the United Kingdom