 | Structures - The Arch Download/DVD: http://hilaroad.com/video/ An arch is a structure commonly used in bridges and buildings. This video presents examples of the arch as a structural unit and introduces the concepts of compression and tension. Provides support for the structures and mechanism unit of grade 6 to 8 science programs. Check our website for more projects: http://hilaroad.com/projects |
 | Millenia Walls ■ Millenia Wall Solutions retaining wall units provide a light-weight, eco-friendly alternative for your retaining wall projects. Millenia's units offer breakthrough technology that reaches new heights in stability, durability and aesthetics. The wall units consist of a confinement cell (for containing fill) secured to a rigid frame that features structural cross ribbing for strength. Unit-to-unit connection locks them together in all directions. ■ EW 50 -- ½ sq ft unit: 2.5lbs - 6 inches high x 12 inches wide x 9 inches deep -- designed for the do-it-yourselfer, landscaper and smaller engineered walls. ■ SC 100 -- 1 sq ft unit: 5.5lbs - 8 inches high x 18 inches wide x 12 inches deep -- designed for the contractor, larger applications and engineered walls. ■ Incredibly easy to install; instead of installers hauling and lifting the weight of a wall in the form of heavy blocks, with Millenia a front-end loader delivers the weight to the wall in the form of crushed stone backfill. Using manufactured concrete blocks to construct a retaining wall, a five-man crew can typically complete only 750 square feet per day. A three-man crew can complete 1,500 to 2,000 square feet per day using the Millenia Wall system. ■ Moisture, organic materials and chemicals from the soil penetrate and degrade timbers and concrete. In contrast, Millenia units are made from 100 percent pre-consumer recycled polymeric resins that have zero absorption. Retaining walls built with Millenia units are built to last. ■ Earth friendly; replacing concrete blocks with Millenia's modular polymeric units in retaining wall construction results in a 65 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and a 55 percent reduction in the overall environmental impact over the life cycle of the product. ■ With Millenia you can earn up to eight LEED credit points in two categories: Sustainable Sites and Materials and Resources. |
 | Virtual CONDO Tour (Asking $158,500) CONDO for sale located in Louisville, KY near the intersection of Hurstborne Ln. & Shelbyville Rd. -1st Floor Unit -Attached 1 Car Garage with Direct Entry into Condo Unit -Alarm System -Approx 1300 sq ft -Open Floor Plan -2 Bedrooms with Walk-in Closets -2 Bathrooms with Ceramic Tile -Whirlpool Tub/Shower Combo in Master Bathroom -9' Smooth Ceilings -Ceiling Fans in Living Room and Master Bedroom -Whirlpool Products -- Stainless Steel Microwave, Stove & Dishwasher...Black Refrigerator -Breakfast Bar -Gas Fireplace -Private Patio with Access from either of the 2 Bedrooms -3 Years Old -Monthly Condo Assocication Maintenance Fee $75.00 (Includes Mowing, Trash Pickup & Recycling, Water, Snow Removal, and Structural Insurance) Email chammers78@yahoo.com |
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 | H.A.F. Mirage F1 CG http://www.aviationlive.org Online Aviation Pics,Videos and Forum By Mihail Solanakis On the 30th of June 2003, an event took place that drew the attention of all those interested in aviation.One of the most important aircraft of the post-WWII Hellenic Air Force, flew for the last time. The aircraft in question is the AMD Mirage F-1CG, rightly considered a legend, despite the fact that its career started and ended in times of peace. When it first appeared in 1975, it was the best interceptor aircraft that the two countries on both sides of the Aegean had in their inventory. Its contribution to the defence of Greece is invaluable, considering the fact that until the introduction of 3rd generation aircraft, it was the one single fighter to reign supreme in the interceptions over anything the Turkish AF could send in their numerous provocations and violations of Greek air space. The order for 40 aircraft was placed with AM Dassault in June 1974, by the dictatorial government of the time, just before the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. This marked the first post-WWII order of French aircraft, by the Hellenic Air Force and the second time that the long tradition of acquiring solely U.S aircraft, was broken. The first time was when 40 Nord 2501 Noratlas transports were acquired in 1969. The Turkish invasion of Cyprus and their increasing provocations over the Aegean forced the Hellenic Air Force to accelerate their arms procurement and the training of personnel. It is telling of the urgency of the Greek order, that the first aircraft were %u201Csnatched%u201D from the line destined for the Armée de l'Air! In this climate, in the beginning of 1975, the first group of pilots and technicians was sent to France. The first problems appeared when it was discovered that all the manuals for the Mirage F-1 were in French and the Hellenic Air Force was confronted with an organisation, training and habits, completely different from those it was accustomed to until then. Thanks to the enthusiasm, hard work and ingenuity of the HAF personnel, all the problems and difficulties were overcome and on the 5th of August 1975, the first Mirage F-1CG (no 101), piloted by Captain Alexandros Mamais touched down in Tanagra AF base. More aircraft arrived the following days. A notable fact was that there were no two-seat versions aircraft in the Greek order. This did not prevent the normal training of the pilots and the conversion to the type. The first unit to receive the type was the 342 Sq.Later a new unit was established to house the new aircraft.This was the 334 Sq.By the middle of 1978 all 40 aircraft had arrived and delivered to the above units based in the 114 Combat Wing at Tanagra. The Mirage F-1CGs will bear most of the responsibility of defending the Greek air space for more than 27 years.When in the end of the %u201880s the HAF started to receive the new F-16Cs and Mirage 2000s, the faithful Mirage F-1CGs continued to serve alongside aircraft with higher performance and much %u201Cyounger%u201D. In 1989, 334 Sq moved to Heraclion in Crete, where the Mirage F-1s flew interceptor sorties until the disbandment of the unit in 2000 and the transfer of the remaining aircraft to the 342 Sq. The French aircraft kept flying operationally as interceptors up until the end of the %u201890s, while the last 15 aircraft left with 342 Sq. (another 9 were stored), were kept in flying condition, despite the lack of spares which started to be felt after the decision to withdraw the type in 2000. A testimony to the quality of the construction of the Mirage F-1CG, is the fact that after more than 160000 flying hours most of them over the sea, the remaining aircraft have no structural problems and no signs of corrosion! It is argued that the retirement of the Mirage F-1CG from HAF service, was untimely and that the French aircraft had a lot more to give. One of the most aesthetically beautiful aircraft that ever served in the HAF, one that was loved and respected by both those who flew it and serviced it, a worthy Aegean Sentinel, has forever left the skies that faithfully defended for 28 years. |
 | Nike Total90 Laser FG bk/metallic silver/ro The easiest way to take the next step and become a soccer superstar is to lace up a pair of Nike's Total 90 Lasers. The Teijin microfiber and exclusive Swerve, Power and Precision rings give you incredible control over your touches and shots while the conical and oblong studs give you great traction. The eVent membrane and Heel Zoom Air unit coupled with the EVA sockliner make this shoe one of the most comfortable available. The Laser even has innovative interwave spinal structural bars on the outsole for motion control and balance. Get this boot and take your game to a world class level. |
 | Spartan 3: Recovery Machinima Trailer A seasoned halo fan knows the fiction of the Spartan III's. A cheap reproduction of the Spartan II program with not very good results. The upcoming machinima focuses on a squad of the Trinity Unit of Spartan Special Forces from the last wave of Spartan III's with a new set of standards, what is refferred to as the "recovery" of the Spartan III program. It's back to basics, the issued program, kept many things from the Spartan II Project in tact, participants are selected and trained to thier maximum potential. The only real structural change in the program is the inhibitation of human originality has been removed. Spartan III's of the recovery project have no platinum pellet, and sometimes have problems questioning thier higher ups, as occured with the original Spartan III's. For more infromation on the plot, joining the project, or joining our group please email me at deserteagle.pwn@gmail.com or message me on Xbox Live (Gamertag:DesertEagle PWN) |
 | We Are All Connected! What IS REAL Entanglement? We Are All Connected! What IS REAL Entanglement? In this video Dirk Laureyssens shows in a very visual way how a non-breakable spherical 2D-surface can create 3D-structures by a simple penetration. The most simple 3D-structures have three entangled/knotted layers that make a topological UNION. But this UNION acts and is observed as a UNIT. The concept of "unbrokenness" is not know or is never used in cosmology, however it's essential. So two parts of a flat 2D-surface can created 3D-Frames of Reference (Einstein), or simply said: structured SPACE. I call these 3D-structures: topological HOLONS. These are like multi-layered boxes, or topological bells, with a covering double cup and an inner clapper. But these boxes are still part of the membrane because they are just enfolded membrane. Since the general membrane vibrates also the layers in a holon will vibrate, and will provoke local kinetic effects, local stress and specific frequencies in the holon. Each holon will have it's own frequency, composed by all it's inside sub-frequencies. That makes each holon unique. The basic idea is that the membrane is a singularity, and since a SINGULARITY CANNOT DESTROY ITSELF the holons must be manifested SUBSETS of the total system. Therefor between all objects and beings (which are all more or less complex holons) and the background membrane is a structural ELASTIC interconnectivity, where the membrane is the mediator of vibrations. This new holistic vision is in the line of geometrical thinking of Riemann, Clifford and Einstein, but now - for the first time - explains the fundamental coupling mechanism that provokes the quantum entanglement, and explains that GRAVITY is just an inherent tension property of the Membrane, and is NOT a separate force. This approach is mathematically fully correct. More info on http://www.pelastration.com/ holon_creation.html |
 | Last flight of "Redhead" Gordon Israel and the Redhead Gordon Israel had gained a great deal of racing experience while helping Benny Howard design and build his stable of winning racing aircraft. Utilizing this experience, Gordon decided to create his own aircraft which, like the majority of the smaller racers, would be powered by a supercharged Menasco C6S of 544 cubic inches. The Menascos could be temperamental engines but they had an extremely low frontal area and could be "tweaked" to pump out a lot more horsepower - albeit with a downturn in reliability. Gordon's comments on the Redhead: "Neither Benny nor myself had any formal college training, I graduated from high school but Benny did not. I took some advanced math courses at Washington University night school. A lot of times I've regretted not taking more, because every once in a while you run into a problem where if you had some smarts you could work it out. It comes harder without having a formal education but if I can't finally grind it out I have some friends that can." "There was a theoretical background for airplane design in those days and we ran a pretty thorough stress analysis on PETE, the first little airplane we built. It was a 9g limit airplane. You just didn't worry about the structure when you were flying it, and the same thing was true of the REDHEAD with the 6 cylinder Menasco. I've still got the original hand written stress calculations I made on it, and although we didn't have full facilities, those, airplanes weren't built by guess and by God. The structures at that time were simple to analyze, welded steel truss fuselages, and using a graphic method you could run a complete stress analysis in very little time. "The biggest problem I had, in stress analysis on the REDHEAD was the fancy butterfly shaped wing with varying spar depths, where figuring the bending moments was a chore. There was an English gal named Barbara Goff, who was a highly theoretical type on stress analysis, and she had developed this graphical method for resolution of shears and moments in tapered spars. I don't know how many sheets of paper I wound up wasting before I finally got the scale on it down to keep me from going, not only off the board, but complete out of the room."' "There were a lot of airplanes in that era that came unglued structurally but the last thing we had to worry about in our planes was the structure." "You've seen so many people hurt beyond a doctor's repair due to structural failures and there were a lot of them in the thirties. People would find an angel, go out and buy a lot of stuff and start building an airplane, with very little consideration for the structure. It backfired on a lot of guys. Poor old Lee Miles, was one. An excellent pilot, he had his plane just come apart on him." "I'll tell you when you had a six cylinder supercharged Menasco in your plane you had enough problems keeping it going without having to worry about the structure." Redhead Construction The fuselage was built from welded steel tubing to give an exceptionally strong and fairly light structure. Around the basic tube fuselage, Gordon added wooden stringers and formers to give the unit its desired shape. The aircraft's large turtledeck was constructed from molded plywood and it also served to cover a small rollover structure located directly behind the pilot's head. The top portion of the fuselage in front and around the cockpit was covered in formed aluminum sheet as was the fuselage tail cone. From the firewall forward, the Menasco was fitted to a tubular engine mount and then wrapped in a tight-fitting aluminum cowl with extensive louvering on the left side while the six exhaust ports protruded from the lower right cowl. Cooling air was supplied via a duct in the hammered aluminum nose bowl. The Menasco was connected to a fixed-pitch metal two-blade propeller. Oddly, there was a lack of a streamlining spinner over the blunt propeller hub. The completed fuselage was 18.5 feet long. The wings also were of standard construction and were built up around sturdy laminated spruce spars with wood ribs. The entire unit was then covered in plywood, sanded down, and then covered in fabric. This undoubtedly created a very strong unit but the designer must have wanted a bit more safety because he added two sets of bracing wires, the top wires were anchored in the fuselage while the lower wires connected to the landing gear. From the landing gear, a single bracing wire extended into the cowl and was fixed to the motor mount. The completed wing spanned 21.5 feet. His best pylon speed was 173.98 mph. However, the mechanics worked wonders on the Menasco and Gordon was able to place third in the Shell Speed Dash at 221.746 mph. In 1934 at Omaha Gordon won the 50 mile free-for-all but damaged the Redhead on landing. It never raced again. |
 | Body and Mind Connection In this video Dirk Laureyssens shows how body and mind are connected in a geometrically way, and how we can understand "reincarnation". Once one understands that matter and energy are just different types of curvature of space (like Riemann, Clifford and Einstein said) then a non-breakable spherical 2D-surface can create 3D-structures by a simple penetration. We call these 3D-structures: Holons. The most simple 3D-structures have three entangled/knotted layers that make a topological UNION. But this UNION acts and is observed as a UNIT. The physical body can be seen as a UNION of set of holons, and so is the Mind or Spirit, another Union of a set of holons. Now these two sets can join in a new holon. In this new holon Body and Mind are coupled in a new UNION, our human being. But we are still part of the larger system and we are still (restructured) membrane. Body and Mind are a Union of two different type of holons. And when the Body conditions fail (decay) then the Mind/Spiritual holon decouples from the body and the (adapted) spiritual holon is free. This concept offers a logic geometrical or topological explanation for the so called "hard problem" about the puzzle how Body and Mind are coupled. And this approach - when accepting one postulate - is mathematically 100% correct. This approach is based on non-breakable background membrane that represents the structural ELASTIC interconnectivity, where the membrane is the mediator of vibrations. More info on http://www.mu6.com/ holon_creation.html . |
 | The Bugs Came out of the Air Conditioner. There are two air conditioners in my flat. When I last April first moved in, one of them began leaking which prompted a phone call from management informing me of this quality of life abomination. At the time, in my ignorance, I didn't bother to inform the landlord: I simply started the other air conditioner up and, it working perfectly, didn't have to trouble myself over these infernal machines for a year. Last week, however, that all changed. The other machine, which had held up so well as to beguile me into a false sense of climate-controlled security, unleashed a steady trickle of water - drip, drip, drip - onto the flats below. Nonetheless, what between the myriad professional revelations and the impact of years of spiritual checks inundating me this past week, taking care of this leaky contraption dropped off my radar, up until the verbal warnings given to me by the building management became written ones, to which I surely had to respond. It took a few days to finally reach my landlord with whom I had rarely spoken since he took control of the flat a few months earlier. In the meantime, I had called the repairman - that same surly bloke who has visited me on numerous occasions during my stay in this building; a verily grim reaper of repairs - to attend to the matter of fixing the leaking units. He came, pulled the unit out from the wall after exerting himself mightily, and then judged the situation - hopeless. The air conditioners indeed were so old and were installed so ineptly that removing one from its precipitous resting place to examine, even, would destroy the machine as he had just discovered. The verdict was to scrap the air conditioners and to purchase new ones. The repairman left the carcass of the conditioner on the floor, and used its cover to plug up the gaping hole in the wall as best as he could. The landlord and his wife eventually visited the flat a few days later. They had never seen the flat before, and had purchased it as though they were blind and dumb. Unfortunately, upon inspecting the awkward configuration of the unit and hearing its disrepair history, which I readily supplied, both they and I realized how we had been conned by the previous landlord, a shifty sales agent who knew how to cover structural blemishes with a wave of a hand and a few cajoling words. The flat, as far as they were concerned, was not as they had imagined in their ignorance based on the duplicity of the previous landlord; and little wonder that that landlord wanted me to take responsibility for the air conditioners, I realized! The new landlords, humbled by their tragic mistakes, departed my abode to consider their options, the foremost of which is to flip the flat as soon as possible. Actually, it hasn't been too taxing to sleep without an air conditioner. I purchased a steady fan which can blow a comforting gale into my face for hours at a time without it offering as much as a flinch. But, the bugs began crawling on the walls. They either came out of the air conditioning unit, or they came in from the outside, through the hole in the wall. I only noticed these diabolical, diminutive vermin a few days ago. I had just stepped out of the shower when I examined closely the wall and remarked, "crap, there are dozens of small bugs crawling on my wall!" The initial shock rattled me greatly, only to transform into an arctic chill deep within my bones when I saw a few of these insects on the frame of my bed. That they were the benign sort neither bent on eating my flesh nor crawling into my orifices was my prayer. Thankfully, they have so far stayed away from my pillow, settling instead comfortably on my wall where they have multiplied exponentially over the past few days. The landlord recommended getting the repairman to remove the air conditioning obstruction from my flat as soon as possible, and covering up the hole in the wall with plastic wrap as well. |
 | Thunderbirds(U.S airforce) The Thunderbirds are the Air Demonstration Squadron of the United States Air Force. The squadron performs no more than 88 air demonstrations each year and has never canceled a demonstration due to maintenance difficulty. In addition to their air demonstration responsibilities, the Thunderbirds are part of the USAF combat force and a component of the 57th Wing. If required, the team's personnel and aircraft can be rapidly integrated into a fighter unit at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.The first team leader was Major General Dick Catledge, and the first plane flown by the squadron was the F-84 Thunderjet. As the F-84G Thunderjet was a single seat fighter, a 2 seat T-33 Shooting Star served as the narrator's aircraft and was used as the VIP/Press ride aircraft. The T-33 served with the Thunderbirds in this capacity in the 1950s & 1960s. A year later, 1955, they moved to the F-84F Thunderstreak aircraft, in which they performed 91 air shows. The aircraft of the squadron was again changed in June 1956, this time to the F-100 Super Sabre, which gave the pilots supersonic capability. This switch was accompanied by a move of headquarters to Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada It also signaled a shift in their performance routine—for example, the Cuban 8 opening routine was dropped, and emphasis was placed on low, screaming flyovers and demonstrations of takeoff performance. For a time, if the show's sponsor permitted it, the pilots would create a "sonic boom" (this ended when the FAA banned supersonic flight over the continental U.S.)In 1960 a decision was made to allow the tail of the #4 slot plane, blackened by the exhaust of the other planes, to remain black. This practice remained in force through the 1973 season. In 1961, the team was compelled to discontinue the vertical bank maneuver due to an FAA regulation prohibiting aerobatics that pointed the nose of the aircraft toward the crowd. . The team switched to the F-105 Thunderchief for a brief period, but returned to the F-100 in 1964 after only six airshows, following Capt. Gene Devlin's death resulting from structural failure of the aircraft in a high-G climbing maneuver. In 1969, the squadron adopted the noisy and huge F-4E Phantom, which it flew until 1973, the only time they would fly jets similar to those of the Blue Angels, as it was the standard fighter for both services. A special white paint had to be developed to cover high-temperature metals, replacing the bare metal paint scheme of past planes. The white paint scheme has been continued to the present. In 1974 they switched to the more economical T-38 Talon, a supersonic trainer based on the F-5 fighter. In 1982, there was another disaster for the Thunderbirds, occurring during pre-season training on January 18. While practicing the 4 plane diamond loop, the formation impacted the ground at high speed, instantly killing all four pilots: Major Norm Lowry, leader, Captain Willie Mays, Captain Pete Peterson and Captain Mark Melancon. The cause of the crash was officially listed by the USAF as the result of a mechanical problem with the #1 aircraft's control stick actuator. In 1983, the team returned to front-line fighters with the General Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon. They would change to the updated F-16C in 1992, an aircraft which has proven its outstanding effectiveness in both air-to-ground and air superiority competitions. Their 3,000th air show was performed in 1990. The squadron celebrated its 50th anniversary on June 1, 2003. |
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