Sunday, February 28, 2010

Airliner Crash

Airliner CrashIn this photograph the B-720 is seen during the moments of initial impact. The left wing is digging into the lakebed while the aircraft continues sliding towards wing openers. Dec 1984, NASA Photo / NASA photo ECN-31803
Airliner CrashFollowing its controlled impact on posts imbedded in the lakebed, the B-720 is sliding sideways and almost enveloped in the large fireball with only the aircraft's nose and right wing-tip exposed. Dec 1984. NASA Photo / NASA photo EC84-31809
Controlled Impact Demonstration (CID) 02.06.02: In a typical aircraft crash, fuel spilled from ruptured fuel tanks forms a fine mist that can be ignited by a number of sources at the crash site. In 1984 the NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility (after 1994 a full-fledged Center again) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) teamed-up in a unique flight experiment called the Controlled Impact Demonstration (CID), to test crash a Boeing 720 aircraft using standard fuel with an additive designed to surpress fire. The additive, FM-9, a high-molecular-weight long-chain polymer, when blended with Jet-A fuel had demonstrated the capability to inhibit ignition and flame propagation of the released fuel in simulated crash tests.

This anti-misting kerosene (AMK) cannot be introduced directly into a gas turbine engine due to several possible problems such as clogging of filters. The AMK must be restored to almost Jet-A before being introduced into the engine for burning. This restoration is called “degradation” and was accomplished on the B-720 using a device called a “degrader.” Each of the four Pratt & Whitney JT3C-7 engines had a “degrader” built and installed by General Electric (GE) to break down and return the AMK to near Jet-A quality.

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Friday, February 26, 2010

Winter Olympics 1980 Gold Medal U.S. Hockey Team

Winter Olympics 1980 Gold Medal U.S. Hockey Team020208-N-3995K-001 Salt Lake City, UT (Feb. 8, 2002) -- Members of the 1980 Gold Medal U.S. Olympic hockey team stand below the Olympic flame at Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. The team had the honor of lighting the cauldron to invoke the official start of the competition. U.S. Navy photo by Journalist 1st Class Preston Keres. (RELEASED)

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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

New York City Firemen in Action

New York City Firemen in Action

New York City Firemen in Action

New York City Firemen in Action
New York City Firemen in Action on Manhattan's westside on 72d street near Amsterdam avenue.

The FDNY, the largest municipal fire department in the United States, has approximately 11,600 uniformed officers and firefighters and over 3,200 uniformed EMTs and paramedics.

The origins of the New York City Fire Department trace back to 1648 when the first fire ordinance was adopted in what then was the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam. The city's first firehouse was built in 1736 in front of City Hall on Broad Street.

Although the 1737 Act created the basis of the fire department, the actual legal entity was incorporated in the State of New York on March 20, 1798 under the name of "Fire Department, City of New York."

The FDNY derives its name from the Tweed Charter which created the Fire Department of the City of New York. This is in contrast to most other fire departments in the U.S. where the name of the city precedes the word fire department.

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Monday, February 22, 2010

Winter Olympics Flag Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 2010 FlagThe Olympic Flag flying in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, outside the provincial legislature of British Columbia, in recognition of Vancouver's hosting of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games
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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Winter Olympics Cross Country Skiing

Winter Olympics Cross Country SkiingLake Placid Winter Olympics. Image ID: wea03161, NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) Collection. Location: New York, Lake Placid. Photo Date: 1980 February. Photographer: Dr. John Kelley, NOAA, NOS, COOPS. Category: Weather Wonders, Winter Snow.

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Friday, February 19, 2010

Winter Olympics Luge

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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Winter Olympics four-man bobsled

Winter Olympics four-man bobsledWinter Olympics four-man bobsled (U.S. Navy photo by Journalist 1st Class Preston Keres) Pilot Brian Shimer, World Class Athletes Spc. Mike Kohn and Spc. Doug Sharp, with brakeman Dan Steele sprint down the start at the Utah Olympic Park track in Park City, Utah,
during their first run of the men's four-man bobsled in the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

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Monday, February 15, 2010

Mardi Gras New Orleans

Mardi Gras New OrleansMardi Gras New Orleans. Title: Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 23. Publisher: Re-published by Peck and Newton, 1905. Original: from the University of Michigan, Digitized: Dec 4, 2008. ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN P. PEMBERTON

At Mardi Gras time, when the whole city is metamorphosed into a scene of revelry, when serious things are laid aside for a time and the spirit of carnival is abroad.

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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Winter Olympics Biathlon

Winter Olympics BiathlonU.S. Navy photo by Journalist 1st Class Preston Keres

World Class Athlete Spc. Jeremy Teela takes aim in the range during the men's 20km individual biathlon event at Soldier hollow in Midway, Utah during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, Feb. 11, 2002.
Teela finished with a personal best of two missed targets, which led him to 14th place, the highest American finish.
Winter Olympics BiathlonU.S. Navy photo by Journalist 1st Class Preston Keres. Spc. Andrea Nahrgang passes the shooting range at Soldier Hollow during the women's 4 X 7.5km relay in the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, Feb. 18, 2002.
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Skiing details

All cross-country skiing techniques are permitted in biathlon. No equipment other than skis and ski poles may be used for moving along the track. Minimal ski length is 1.6 in less than the height of the skier.

Shooting details

The biathlete uses a small bore rifle, which weighs at least 7.7 lb, including ammunition in magazines on their back during the race. The rifles use .22 LR ammunition and are bolt action or Fortner (straight-pull bolt) action.

The target distance is 160 ft. There are five circular targets in each shooting round. When shooting in the prone position the target diameter 1.8 in, when shooting in the standing position the target diameter is 4.5 in. On all modern biathlon ranges, the targets are self-indicating, in that they flip from black to white when hit, giving the biathlete as well as the spectators visual feedback for each shot.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Lunar New Year 2010 Two

Lunar New Year 2010 Two

Lunar New Year 2010 Two
The lunisolar Chinese calendar determines Chinese New Year dates. The calendar is also used in countries that have adopted or have been influenced by Han culture (notably the Koreans, Japanese and Vietnamese) and may have a common ancestry with the similar New Years festivals outside East Asia (such as Iran, and historically, the Bulgars lands).

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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Mardi Gras Carnival Procession

Mardi Gras Carnival ProcessionMardi Gras Carnival Procession Leeds West Indian Carnival Procession, 2008. Harehills and Chapeltown. 25 August 2008.

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Carnival. Carnival is the season between Twelfth Night and Lent. It is the gayest season of the year in New Orleans, the climax being reached by the costly festivities of Mardi Gras, "fat Tuesday," the eve of Ash Wednesday. The name "Carnival" is derived from two Latin words "carne," "flesh," and "vale," "farewell," hence " farewell to the flesh"; the pleasures of "carnival" are a gay good-by to the flesh which is to be mortified during the penitential season of Lent.

Carnival is of pagan origin. The Romans celebrated the feast of the Pastoral god, Lupercus, on February 15th; goats were sacrificed and two youths clothed in goat skins ran

through the streets hitting with leather thongs the persons they met. The celebration in modified form was kept by the Christian Romans and has been continued to the present day. The custom spread from Rome to other places. New Orleans adopted the Carnival from Paris, but has improved upon it so greatly, that, today, her Carnival is the most noted in the world. The brilliant balls and gorgeous pageants of the last week of Carnival annually attract thousands of visitors to the hospitable metropolis of the Southland.

The custom of having pageants reproducing scenes from history, literature, or art, by means of gorgeously decorated floats was introduced into New Orleans from Mobile. In 1831, an organization of Mobile known as the "Cowbellions," held the first parade of the kind in America.

The Mystic Krewe of Comus was the first to delight the populace of New Orleans by its appearance in the streets. In 1857, they presented scenes from Milton's "Paradise Lost" and then repaired to the old Varieties Theatre for the grand ball with which they entertained their more intimate friends. This merry god and his court annually parade in exquisitely artistic guise in the evening of Mardi Gras; their ball later at the French Opera House is the climax andclose of the brilliant social season.

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Mardi Gras Carnival Masks

MardiThe Venice Carnival (Mardi Gras) is one of the most famous and one of the oldest celebrations in the world. The Carnival of Venice (or Carnevale di Venezia in Italian) was first recorded in 1268. The subversive nature of the festival is reflected in the many laws created over the centuries attempting to restrict celebrations and often banning the wearing of masks.
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Monday, February 08, 2010

Lunar New Year of the Tiger



Lunar New Year 2010 Year of the Tiger. Chinese New Year or Spring Festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is sometimes called the "Lunar New Year" by English speakers. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first month (Chinese; pinyin: zhēng yuè) in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th; this day is called Lantern Festival. Chinese New Year's Eve is known as chú xī. It literally means "Year-pass Eve".

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The Tiger ( 虎 ), is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Tiger is associated with the earthly branch symbol 寅.


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Year of the Tiger Lunar New Year 2010

Year of the Tiger Lunar New Year 2010

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Saturday, February 06, 2010

Tuskegee Airmen

Tuskegee Airmen

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Those air crew and ground crew personnel associated with black flying units of the Army Air Forces (AAF) during World War II are known as the Tuskegee Airmen. On 16 January 1941, Secretary of the Army Henry L. Stimson authorized the formation of a black pursuit squadron. The 99th Pursuit (later Fighter) Squadron was activated in March 1941 and began training in separate facilities at Tuskegee, Alabama, on 15 November.
The 99th Squadron, equipped with Curtiss P-40s and later Bell P-39s, was sent to French Morocco in April 1943, and it continued combat service from bases in Tunisia, Sicily, and Italy.

In February 1944, the 99th Squadron was joined by three other fighter squadrons, the 100th, the 301st, and the 302nd, and all four squadrons constituted the 332nd Fighter Group, commanded by Colonel (later Lieutenant General) Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. The group converted to Republic P-47s in April-May 1944 and to North American P-51s in June. Until the end of the war in Europe, it escorted Fifteenth Air Force bombers and made attacks on ground targets from its bases in Italy. The group earned a Distinguished Unit Citation for an escort mission to Berlin on 24 March 1945.

In mid-1943, the AAF decided to organize a black bomber unit, the 477th Bombardment Group (Medium). Activated on 1 June 1943, its pilots were to be trained at Tuskegee, but that airfield, already overburdened with training requirements, was unable to handle the new requirement. Rather than sending black student pilots to white schools or creating another separate black base, the AAF delayed crews for the 477th Group until the Tuskegee backlog could be cleared out. Consequently, the group was not operational until after the war.

Since Tuskegee was not able to provide North American B-25 medium bomber pilot transition nor training for bombardiers and navigators, the AAF compromised somewhat its segregation policies and sent black officers to what had been all-white training establishments for the advanced instruction. Tuskegee was, however, the single school for instruction of black pilots until it closed in 1946. Its graduates along with the other air and ground personnel trained there for the 477th Bombardment and 332nd Fighter Groups are the Tuskegee Airmen.

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Thursday, February 04, 2010

Mount Rushmore

Full view of Mount Rushmore Date: October 22, 2007 Location: By Sculptors Studio Photographer: Ed Menard Ranger Description: Full view of from Studio area.

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Mount Rushmore National Memorial, near Keystone, South Dakota, is a granite sculpture by Gutzon Borglum (1867–1941), located within the United States Presidential Memorial that represents the first 150 years of the history of the United States of America with 60-foot sculptures of former presidents (left to right): George Washington (1732–1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)and Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865).

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Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Beyonce

BeyonceBeyonce sings "America the Beautiful" at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Jan. 18, 2009, during the inaugural opening ceremonies. More than 5,000 men and women in uniform are providing military ceremonial support to the presidential inauguration,
a tradition dating back to George Washington's 1789 inauguration. (DoD photo by Yeoman 1st Class Donna Lou Morgan, U.S. Navy/Released)

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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Eagles

Title: The Encyclopedia Americana: a library of universal knowledge, Volume 9. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge. Publisher: Encyclopedia Americana Corp., 1918. Original from: Harvard University. Digitized: Aug 29, 2007.

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EAGLE, as a popular name, includes several raptorial birds which vary in some respects from the strictly defined group in which science has been wont to place it. The order Accipitres, to which it belongs, is broad enough in definition to include all the vultures, the typical eagles, and the buzzards. Recent osteológical demonstrations, however, have led to the separation of American vultures from the Old World vultures, including the latter in the family Falconidœ, to which eagles and vultures belong.

This family, which embraces 300 species of diurnal raptores, is characterized by imperforate nostrils, legs of medium length, and, except in the Old World vultures, a feathered head, a bill decidedly hooked, the hind toe inserted on a level with the three front ones, and the claws roundly curved and sharp. The sub-family Aquilina; makes prominent the cutting edge of the upper mandible, the bony shield over the eye, the feet heavy and short, either scutellate or feathered. The Läm

mergeier (Gypaetus barbatus), lamb-killer, or bearded vulture of the Alps, the Pyrenees, and the Himalayas, finds its nearest affinity here. The Aquilina: are naturally divided into two genera: Aquila, land eagles, and Haliacttis, seafishing eagles. The former is feathered to the toes, the latter half way to the toes.

The leading specimen of Aquila is the golden eagle (A. chrysaetus) one of the largest and most magnificent of its kind, dark brown with purple gloss ; head and neck brownishyellow ; tail rounded and dark brown, ending in light and dark tints. The length is about three feet, the extent of wing seven feet. In North America its range is from Mexico north. It is very scarce in the United States but more abundant in Canada, where it is distinguished as canadensis.

It is regarded as a variety of the European species, which seldom occurs in England, though more prevalent in Scotland, where the demand for its eggs has favored its increase. The nest is usually placed on some inaccessible cliff, the eggs are spotted and do not exceed three. Closely allied to the golden eagle are the imperial eagle (A. mogilmk) of southwestern Europe and of Asia, and the king eagle (A. hiliaca) of the same range. The smallest of the kind is the dwarf eagle. (A. pennata) which measures less than two feet and is native in Southern Europe, North Africa and in India.

First in interest among the sea-eagles stands the bald-headed eagle (Haliaetus Irucocephalus), selected as the national emblem of the United States. Its markings are familiar, though the term "bald" is to be referred not to the absence of feathers, but to the effect produced by the white feathers on the head. In size, it corresponds nearly to the golden eagle, but it differs in its habits, living mainly upon the fish which it seizes along the sea-shore and around lakes and rivers.

The nest is built on a high tree top or upon a rocky cliff. A finer specimen than this is the northern seaeagle (Haliaetus pelagicus) of northeastern Asia. It is conspicuous by its large form and bill, and by the contrast of its main color, brown, with the white of its shoulders, rump and tail. The African sea-eagle (H. vocifcr) is a fish-eater, about half the size of the "baldhead," remarkable for its color-markings, being white on the head, neck and breast, while the under parts and wing coverts are chestnut, and the upper parts are black or brown.

Nearly related to the Ha'iactus is the fishing-eagle (Poliooetus ichlhycctus) of India and the East Indies, with extremely curved talons, and living entirely on fish. In countries bordering on the Mediterranean and ranging into India and Central Europe, is the serpent-eagle (Circaetus gallicus) with short toes, white, brown-spotted under parts, and dark brown upper parts. It feeds upon reptiles, which it kills and carries away, not eating the game on the spot, as do other eagles. A buzzardlike genus, Hclotarsus, is represented in Southern Africa by H. ecaudatus, the short-tailed eagle, oramcnted with maroon and black plumage, and bright red, very short legs.