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RagWing Aircraft Designs. RagWing Aircraft Designs (also called the RagWing Aeroplane Company and RagWing Aviation) was an American aircraft design and manufacturing company based in Taylors, South Carolina.

The company was founded in 1987 and closed down in January 2000.

History
Roger Mann founded RagWing after he left the United States Air Force in 1987 as a multi-service aviation company providing flight instruction, maintenance, prototype design and flight testing of homebuilt aircraft. Mann's first aircraft design was marketed in 1991 and his range of products include 14 different fixed-wing aircraft designs. In the 1990s the company provided complete aircraft kits (less engines), but since the company closed in January 2000 this has been reduced to providing plans only and builder support. Mann stated in 2012 that, "plans are still available but are mainly sold for their historical value".

The company's products are predominantly designs for aircraft of glued wooden construction, covered in aircraft fabric, hence the name of the company.

Aircraft

References

External links
Archives of the official website on Archive.org
Roger Mann's Official website
Roger Mann's Facebook page

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Kevin Burke (businessman). Kevin Burke was the Chairman, President, and CEO of Consolidated Edison. He joined Consolidated Edison in 1973. He was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 2000, President and CEO in 2005, and Chairman in 2006, serving until his retirement in 2013. He is a board member of Honeywell since 2010 and a trustee of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Educational background 
Burke graduated from Regis High School in Manhattan in 1968. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from The Cooper Union, a master's degree in engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a master of business administration from Columbia University, and a juris doctor from Fordham University.

He resides in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

References 

Columbia Business School alumni
Living people
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
American chief executives of energy companies
American chief operating officers
Cooper Union alumni
Fordham University School of Law alumni
Regis High School (New York City) alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Kwak Kyung-sup. Kyung Sup Kwak is a South Korean electrical engineer, a professor in the Graduate School of Information Technology and Telecommunication at Inha University, South Korea.

Kwak did his undergraduate studies at Inha University, earning a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1977. He received a master's degree from the University of Southern California in 1981, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1988. He was president of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences in 2006.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Southern California alumni
University of California, San Diego alumni
Academic staff of Inha University
South Korean expatriates in the United States
BBX. BBX may refer to

BBX (gene), bobby sox homolog, a human gene
BBX-OS, a former proposed name for RIM's Blackberry 10 OS
Berrys' Broking Exchange, an online trading platform operated by Berry Brothers and Rudd
Scion bbX, a concept car
Wings Field (IATA code BBX), a general aviation airport in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania

See also
 BB10 (disambiguation)
Jose Duato. José Francisco Duato Marín (Alberic, Valencia, 1958) is a Spanish professor and researcher awarded the National Prize for Research Julio Rey Pastor in 2009 and the King Jaime I Prize for new technologies in 2006. His research is based mainly in the field of interconnection networks and develops its role as Full Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering (DISCA) at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

First author of the book "Interconnection Networks: An Engineering Approach", published in the United States by the IEEE Computer Society Press in 1997 and by Morgan Kaufmann in 2002. It is the most quoted book on interconnection networks in existence today (over 1400 citations ). Is being used by engineers designing interconnection networks in the market-leading companies (IBM, Compaq, Intel, Sun Microsystems) and to provide doctoral programs, especially in the United States.

Co-author of the chapter on interconnection networks in the fourth edition of the book "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" by John Hennessy and Dave Patterson. This is the most widely used and cited book on computer architecture available today (more than 8000 citations in total).

In 2009, Prof. Duato received the prestigious national award “Julio Rey Pastor“, in the field of mathematics and information technologies and the communications, for his contributions of international importance in the field of the interconnection networks and for the transference of these results to the industry.

References

External links
 Intel incorpora a sus prototipos una tecnica codiseñada por Jose Duato
Interview with Jose Duato

Living people
Spanish scientists
Computer hardware researchers
Academic staff of the Technical University of Valencia
Year of birth missing (living people)
Matlockite. Matlockite is a rare lead halide mineral, named after the town of Matlock in Derbyshire, England, where it was first discovered in a nearby mine. Matlockite (chemical formula: PbFCl) gives its name to the matlockite group which consists of rare minerals of a similar structure.

Description
The mineral, a lead fluorochloride (formula PbFCl), was discovered sometime around the early 1800s at Bage Mine at Bolehill near Matlock, together with specimens of phosgenite and anglesite. Although phosgenite was known at this time, it seems likely that matlockite itself remained unappreciated as a new mineral for some fifty years. It was given the name by Greg in 1851. The first mention of matlockite may have been in Mawe's Mineralogy of Derbyshire in 1802 in which he gives a detailed description of phosgenite, which is then followed by a mention of a mineral he refers to as "glass lead" – a description which does rather equate to the appearance of matlockite. It is a light, translucent creamy-yellow colour, but heavy in weight having a density that is over 7.1.

A very large specimen 10 cm across, and originating from Derbyshire, exists in the collections of the American Museum of Natural History. A 7 cm specimen can be found in the collection of Derby Museum and Art Gallery.

Matlockite has been reported from a variety of locations since its discovery at the type locality of Derbyshire. The mineral is also found in Tiger, Arizona, Laurium in Greece, a mine near Essen in Germany and near Campiglia in Tuscany. Samples have also been found at locations in South Africa, Peru, Chile, Australia, Austria, France and Italy.

Matlockite group
The matlockite group consists of a number of minerals which share a similar crystal structure.  The group includes bismuth, lead or calcium halides: bismoclite , daubréeite , laurionite , paralaurionite , rorisite CaFCl, zavaritskite  and the eponymous matlockite.

References

External links

Halide minerals
Lead minerals
Tetragonal minerals
Minerals in space group 129
Collection of Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Mixed anion compounds
Sky Scorcher. Sky Scorcher was a nuclear-armed air-to-air missile proposed to the United States Air Force in the 1950s. Intended for use as a weapon for the disruption of enemy bomber formations, it failed to find favor among Air Force planners and did not undergo development.

Development
The Sky Scorcher project was proposed by the Convair Division of General Dynamics to the United States Air Force in 1956. The missile was intended to be carried by an advanced, enlarged version of Convair's F-106 Delta Dart interceptor, which had, at the time, not yet entered flight testing even in its baseline form.

Sky Scorcher was a very large missile, which was projected to be capable of carrying a thermonuclear warhead with a yield of two megatons. The oversized warhead would be used against attacking formations of supersonic bombers; it was anticipated that fourteen such initiations, at a distance of approximately  from the bombers' target, would be sufficient to disrupt an attack. A force of eighty of the advanced fighters were proposed for carrying the weapon.

Despite Convair's sales pitch and the anticipated effectiveness of the weapon, the Air Force was unenthusiastic about the concept; aside from the expense of developing the aircraft and weapon, the Sky Scorcher missile also suffered from the fact that there would be significant effects on the ground below the location of an airburst of a multi-megaton nuclear warhead. As a result, the project was abandoned before any significant work was undertaken.

References

Notes

Bibliography

 
 
 Peacock, Lindsay. "Delta Dart...Last of the Century Fighters". Air International, Vol. 31, No 4, October 1986, pp. 198–206, 217. Stamford, UK: Fine Scroll.

Proposed weapons of the United States
Nuclear missiles of the United States
Abandoned military rocket and missile projects of the United States
Abe Mizet. The Abe Mizet (English: Midget) is a homebuilt aircraft design from builder Keiichi Abe of Japan. The aircraft was built with help from the Kushiro Aero Club. The Mizet is a rare example of a homebuilt aircraft designed and built for operations in Japan.

Design
The Abe Mizet is a single-place open-cockpit, pusher, high-wing aircraft with tricycle landing gear, similar to a Breezy aircraft homebuilt design.

Keiichi Abe also assisted Don Taylor on the Japanese leg of his round-the-world flight in a homebuilt aircraft.

Specifications (Mizet II)

References

Homebuilt aircraft
Supermarine "Giant". The Supermarine Type 179 "Giant" was a British monoplane flying boat developed by Supermarine but cancelled before completion.

Design and development
The Type 179 was an all-metal monoplane flying-boat powered by six Rolls-Royce Buzzard piston engines mounted above the wing. It was to have a crew of seven and room for 40 passengers in a day configuration. The keel was laid down in 1931 and the aircraft was under construction when the project was abandoned in 1932. The aircraft had been registered G-ABLE in April 1931.

Specifications (Type 179 estimated at July 1931)

See also

References

External links
 Supermarine Type 179 from Avia Deja Vu

179
1930s British airliners
High-wing aircraft
Flying boats
Six-engined push-pull aircraft
Six-engined piston aircraft
Abandoned civil aircraft projects of the United Kingdom
Unflown aircraft
Rooftop water tower. A rooftop water tower is a variant of a water tower, consisting of a water container placed on the roof of a tall building.

This structure supplies water pressure to floors at higher elevation than public water towers.

As building height increases, the vertical height of its plumbing also increases. This produces a large water column and the weight of this water produces very high pressure at the bottom of the column. Normally, this would require very thick (heavy-duty) plumbing to survive the pressure. Fittings at the bottom of the column would need pressure reducing valves to operate normally, and municipal water pressure would need to be very high to supply pressure to the top of the column.

Instead, the plumbing at various levels of the building are often sequestered, with pressure supplied from a rooftop water tower instead of the municipal supply. The tower itself is fed by a pump and a relatively high pressure line that carries water to the top of the building from the pipes below.

Beside this, also tall buildings with water tanks in the structure of the building exist. The tanks of such buildings usually do not serve only for keeping water pressure in higher floors, but often also for the public water supply.

Maintenance
Regular cleaning of tanks in use is necessary, in order to prevent possible water contamination. Cleaning a water tank usually takes about six hours depending on the size of the tank. Most tanks in New York City are around 12 ft high and similar in diameter. This process includes scraping away the sediment and any debris that the tank has accumulated, then the interior surfaces are cleaned with a chlorine solution. Routine inspection for holes and cracks is also necessary, to prevent the intrusion of contaminants. Any holes are calked with epoxy and the metal hoops used to secure the walls of the tank are tightened to spec.

In 2009, New York City passed new laws forcing property owners to have their tanks inspected annually, with proof of inspection. Inspection reports must also be available to all tenants in the building. If any unsatisfactory results are found, the individual responsible for the building must immediately have the tank cleaned up to city safety standards. Failure to comply with these rules can lead to the imposition of fines on the property owner.

See also

References

Water supply
Montage (image software). Montage is a software toolkit used in astrophotography to assemble astronomical images in Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) format into composite images, called mosaics, that preserve the calibration and positional fidelity of the original input images. It won a NASA Space Act Award in 2006.

Montage was developed to support scientific research. It enables astronomers to create images of regions of the sky that are too large to be produced by astronomical cameras. It also creates composite images of a region of the sky that has been measured with different wavelengths and with different instruments; the composite appears as if the area was measured with the same instrument on the same telescope. There is also associated software developed by the Montage user community including Bash and C shell scripts to make mosaics, and the montage-wrapper Python application programming interface, a part of the Astropy project.

Montage uses a BSD 3-Clause License, which permits unlimited redistribution of the Montage code for any purpose as long as its copyright notices and the license's disclaimers of warranty are included.

See also
Afocal photography
Outline of photography
Image editing

References

External links
 

Free astronomy software
Free science software
Astrophotography
HGK (bomb). The HGK guidance kit (HGK, ), developed by TÜBİTAK-SAGE, is a GPS/INS  guidance kit that converts bombs range from 227 kg (500-lb) to 907 kg (2000-lb) Mark 80-series munitions into smart bombs. A CAMGÖZ (glass eye) laser seeker, resistant to countermeasures and with over 315 degrees of view angle, again developed by TÜBİTAK-SAGE, provides guidance. It enables precision strike capability in all weather conditions with long range (up to 24 km) at a dispersion of .

The kit can be used with Mark 84, Mark 83 and Mark 82 bombs.

References 

Air-to-surface missiles of Turkey
Aerial bombs
Guided bombs
Military equipment introduced in the 2000s
VeriFlux. VeriFlux is a formal methods based static analysis tool for programs written in Java.  It is optimized for use with JamaicaVM, but can be used for any Java program.  It can detect uncaught runtime exceptions, including RTSJ exceptions, and possible deadlocks in code using Java synchronization features.  It has also been used for resource analysis.  It can be used for both full program analysis and partial program analysis.

See also 
Aicas
JamaicaVM
Formal methods
Data-flow analysis
Real time Java
Embedded Java

References

External links 

Static program analysis tools
Dr. Annasaheb Shinde College of Agricultural Engineering, Rahuri. Dr. Annasaheb Shinde College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth Maharashtra is named after Annasaheb Shinde, the former Union Minister of State for Agriculture.

History

The institution was established in 1969 for B.Tech, while the post-graduate degree program began in 1982.

Courses undertaken
Courses offered include:
Agricultural Process Engineering
Farm Machinery and Power
Farm Structures and Rural Electrification
Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Soil and Water Conservation Engineering

In addition, other agricultural and basic science courses such as Botany, Plant Pathology, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics are offered as supporting courses.

Admissions

On the basis of the performance in MHT CET, with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, students are given admission to B.Tech. For M.Tech. the minimum qualification is B.Tech and must qualify MCAER CET. The academic programme is of two-year duration for M.Tech. (4 semesters) and four years for B.Tech. (8 semesters) including one month Summer Placement Training at the end of second and third years for B.Tech. During the fourth year, students have industrial training for four months and guided to have individual design project culminating with Project Report.

See also 
Rahuri

References
http://mpkv.mah.nic.in/ENGG_HOME.HTM

Agricultural universities and colleges in Maharashtra
Engineering colleges in Maharashtra
Education in Ahmednagar district
Educational institutions established in 1969
1969 establishments in Maharashtra
Tsumcorite. Tsumcorite is a rare hydrated lead arsenate mineral that was discovered in 1971, and reported by Geier, Kautz and Muller. It was named after the TSUMeb CORporation  mine at Tsumeb, in Namibia, in recognition of the Corporation's support for mineralogical investigations of the orebody at its Mineral Research Laboratory.

Unit cell 
Tsumcorite belongs to the monoclinic crystal class 2/m, which means that it has a twofold axis of symmetry along the b axis and a mirror plane perpendicular to this, in the plane containing the a and c axes.  The a and c axes are inclined to each other at angle β = 115.3°.  The unit cell parameters are a = 9.124 Å to 9.131 Å, b = 6.326 Å to 6.329 Å and c = 7.577 Å to 7.583 Å. There are two formula units per unit cell (Z = 2), and the space group is C2/m, meaning that the cell is a C-face centred lattice, with lattice points in the center of the C face as well as at the corners of the cell. The structure is related to the brackebushite group structure.

Mineral series 
Tsumcorite belongs to the helmutwinklerite group, whose members are
tsumcorite PbZnFe2+(AsO4)2.H2O
helmutwinklerite PbZn2(AsO4)2.2H2O
thometzekite PbCu2+2(AsO4)2.2H2O
mawbyite PbFe3+2(AsO4)2(OH)2
Tsumcorite forms a series with helmutwinklerite as Zn replaces the Fe2+, with thometzekite as Cu replaces the Zn and Fe2+, and also with mawbyite.

Crystal habit and properties 
Crystals are prismatic, elongated along the b axis, or wedge-shaped.  They occur in radiating sheaves and spherulites, and as fibrous crusts or earthy and powdery material.   Cleavage is good perpendicular to the c axis, and twinning is common.

Tsumcorite is yellow-brown, red-brown or orange in color, and it is one of the few minerals that have a yellow streak (orpiment and crocoite are two others).  It is translucent, with a vitreous luster, and dichroic yellow to yellow-green. The optical class is biaxial and the refractive indices are approximately equal to 1.90.

The mineral is moderately hard, with a Mohs hardness of , between fluorite and apatite, and quite heavy, due to the lead content, with specific gravity 5.2, which is more than baryte but less than cerussite. It dissolves in hydrochloric acid and it is not radioactive.

Occurrence and associations 
Tsumcorite is a rare secondary mineral in the oxidized zone of some arsenic-bearing hydrothermal lead-zinc deposits.

The type locality is the Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia, where it is associated with willemite, smithsonite, mimetite, scorodite, anglesite, arseniosiderite, beaverite, beudantite, carminite, ludlockite, o'danielite, zincroselite, stranskiite and leiteite.  At the Puttapa Mine in Australia it occurs with adamite, mimetite, smithsonite, goethite and quartz. At the  Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, Australia it occurs with segnitite, beudantite, carminite and mawbyite.

References 

Arsenate minerals
Lead minerals
Zinc minerals
Iron(II) minerals
Monoclinic minerals
Minerals in space group 12
Minerals described in 1971
Stearman XOSS. The Stearman XOSS was an American biplane observation floatplane developed by Stearman Aircraft for the United States Navy during the late 1930s. Intended to replace the Curtiss SOC Seagull in service aboard battleships, it proved inferior to the Vought OS2U Kingfisher in a fly-off, and did not enter production.

Design and development
Known by the company designation Model X-85, the Stearman XOSS-1 was designed during 1937 in response to a U.S. Navy specification calling for an observation-scout type aircraft, capable of operating from either water or land, and stressed for catapult launching from battleships and cruisers. The new aircraft was intended to replace the Curtiss SOC as the standard observation and gunnery spotting aircraft in service aboard the Navy's battleships.

In response to the request for proposals, the Navy received designs from Stearman Aircraft, Chance Vought, and the Naval Aircraft Factory. The Stearman Model 85, given the designation XOSS-1, was a conventional two-seat biplane, with the pilot and observer seated in tandem in a fully enclosed cockpit. The aircraft could be operated with either float or wheeled landing gear, with the former being of the single center-float type, and the latter being a conventional taildragger undercarriage. The XOSS-1 had the unusual feature of being fitted with full-span flaps on the upper wing to reduce stalling speed. It was powered by a Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp radial engine.

Operational history
Flying for the first time in September 1938, the XOSS-1 proved to have benign flying characteristics, and over the next several months was evaluated against the Naval Aircraft Factory XOSN, another conventional biplane, and the Vought XOS2U, a mid-wing monoplane.

The evaluation proved that the XOSS-1 was conventional in all respects; the full-span upper-wing flap reduced the aircraft's landing speed to , while the top speed achievable was . Both the XOSS-1 and the XOSN-1, despite not possessing any significant faults, were considered to be insufficiently advanced, being inferior in performance and potential to the Vought machine. The XOS2U-1 was declared the winner of the competition in May 1939, and the XOSS-1's development came to an end. The aircraft was used for liaison purposes by the Navy, being scrapped at NAS Jacksonville in 1941.

Operators

United States Navy

Specifications (XOSS-1)

See also

References

Citations

Bibliography

External links

 Stearman XOSS-1 at Aviation Enthusiast Corner.

OS0S
1930s United States military reconnaissance aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Floatplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1938