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| Avid Experimental Aircraft |
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Let's go for a ride in some Avid Flyers. I shot
and produced this for my client, Avid Aircraft of
Caldwell, Idaho. 100% of the aerial video I shot
from an Avid, all handheld. The ground scenes were
shot on my tripod.
Tags : Avid Experimental Aircraft Flying Homebuilt |
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Durée : 615 s |
| X-23B Nasa Experimental Craft |
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A fleet of lifting bodies flown at the NASA Flight
Research Center, Edwards, California, from 1963 to
1975 demonstrated the ability of pilots to
maneuver (in the atmosphere) and safely land a
wingless vehicle. These lifting bodies were
basically designed so they could fly back to Earth
from space and be landed like an aircraft at a
pre-determined site. (In 1976 NASA renamed the FRC
as the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in honor
of Hugh L. Dryden.)
In 1962, FRC Director Paul Bikle approved a
program to build a lightweight, unpowered lifting
body as a prototype to flight test the wingless
concept. It would look like a "flying bathtub,"
and was designated the M2-F1. It featured a
plywood shell, built by Gus Briegleb (a sailplane
builder from El Mirage, California) placed over a
tubular steel frame crafted at the FRC.
Construction was completed in 1963.
The success of the Flight Research Center M2-F1
program led to NASA development and construction
of two heavyweight lifting bodies based on studies
at the NASA Ames and Langley research centers--the
M2-F2 and the HL-10, both built by the Northrop
Corporation, Hawthorne, California. The Air Force
also became interested in lifting body research
and had a third design concept built, the X-24A,
built by the Martin Company, Denver, Colorado. It
was later modified into the X-24B and both
configurations were flown in the joint NASA-Air
Force lifting body program located at Dryden.
The X-24B design evolved from a family of
potential reentry shapes, each with higher
lift-to-drag ratios, proposed by the Air Force
Flight Dynamics Laboratory.
To reduce the costs of constructing a research
vehicle, the Air Force returned the X-24A to
Martin for modifications that converted its
bulbous shape into one resembling a "flying
flatiron" -- rounded top, flat bottom, and a
double-delta planform that ended in a pointed
nose.
First to fly the X-24B was John A. Manke, a glide
flight on August 1, 1973. He was also the pilot on
the first powered mission November 15, 1973.
Among the final flights with the X-24B were two
precise landings on the main concrete runway at
Edwards, California, which showed that accurate
unpowered reentry vehicle landings were
operationally feasible. These missions were flown
by Manke and Air Force Maj. Mike Love and
represented the final milestone in a program that
helped write the flight plan for the Space Shuttle
program of today.
After launch from the B-52 "mothership" at an
altitude of about 45,000 feet, the XLR-11 rocket
engine was ignited and the vehicle accelerated to
speeds of more than 1,100 miles per hour and to
altitudes of 60,000 to 70,000 feet. After the
rocket engine was shut down, the pilots began
steep glides towards the Edwards runway. As the
pilots entered the final leg of their approach,
they increased their rate of descent to build up
speed and used this energy to perform a "flare
out" maneuver, which slowed their landing speed to
about 200 miles per hour--the same basic approach
pattern and landing speed of the Space Shuttles
today.
The final powered flight with the X-24B aircraft
was on September 23, 1975. The pilot was Bill
Dana, and it was also the last rocket-powered
flight flown at Dryden. It was also Dana who flew
the last X-15 mission about seven years earlier.
Top speed reached with the X-24B was 1,164 miles
per hour (Mach 1.76) by Love on October 25, 1974.
The highest altitude reached was 74,100 feet, by
Manke on May 22, 1975. The X-24B is on public
display at the Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson
AFB, Ohio.
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Durée : 158 s |
| National Health : experimental prog fusion group |
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National Health was a progressive rock band
associated with the Canterbury Scene. Founded in
1975 by keyboardists Dave Stewart (from Hatfield
and the North) and Alan Gowen (from Gilgamesh),
the band also included guitarists Phil Miller and
Phil Lee and bassist Mont Campbell as original
members.
Bill Bruford was the initial drummer but was soon
replaced by Pip Pyle. Campbell was replaced by
Neil Murray and then John Greaves.
A frequently changing lineup toured extensively
and released two LPs of often lengthy, mostly
instrumental, complexly scored compositions before
splitting up in 1980. After the May 1981 death of
Gowen, remaining members reconvened to record the
album D.S. Al Coda, a set of compositions by
Gowen, most previously unrecorded. The original
albums and additional archival material have
subsequently been released on CD.
Their 1978 record Of Queues and Cures, which
included Peter Blegvad (guitar, vocals) and
Georgie Born (cello), is currently held as the
third best record ever (of 53,000 candidate
records) on the Gnosis web site.
wikipedia
weird shit, i like it.
Tags : National Health band music weird experimental jamrock prog progressive crimson beauford fusion art rock shit fuck ass |
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