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Oldest Bodybuilder in the World. Ray Moon is well in his 80s but age has never been a problem when it came to his biggest passion, bodybuilding. He’s the oldest bodybuilder in the world and he looks awesome for his age. ...
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One of Our Mines is Missing!
On July 5th 1955 26000 lbs of high explosives - a MINE, laid deep under German trench lines on the Franco-Belgian border during the First World war - explodes in a thunderstorm at the edge of a cornfield. No one is hurt - there are no eyewitnesses. But it leaves a crater 250 feet across and sixty feet deep. It was one of several charges known to be lying dormant under the battlefields of the Western Front and one of potentially hundreds of mines abandoned at the end of the war by the men who laid them. Narrated by actor John Shrapnel, "One of Our Mines is Missing!", three years in the making, skilfully weaves past and present as it unfolds the story of the search for one of these mines deep within the bowels of Vimy Ridge, a key tactical area of France contested bitterly by the British, Canadians and Germans between 1916-17. Fly on the wall cameras follow WW1 tunnelling expert and retired Royal Engineer - Lt Col Philip Robinson ("War Walks") and his team of EOD specialists as they undertake a hazardous journey underground in search of the missing Broadmarsh mine - a 16 ton leviathon - mooted to be lying abandoned under the Canadian Memorial Park astride the ridge. In the course of the expedition the team, including serving regular and territorial soldiers from the British Army overcome blockages, dangerously low levels of oxygen and the threat of gas - as they attempt to reach the mine. And, for the very first time on television, cameras take us into the heart of this and a second mine chamber - The Durand - as explosives experts attempt to defuse the potentially lethal packages within. Failure could leave at risk the lives of some of the hundreds of thousands of French and international tourists - many of them Canadian, who visit the park every year - The Broadmarsh sits precariously below a busy road junction and the Durand below the park toilets! Using a combination of rare archive photographs and film, together with unique privately sourced material, the film also gives us a historical insight into the protracted and deadly subterranean struggle fought by tunnellers and miners of both sides, where stealth, guile and high explosive were the main weapons; entombment, crushing or gas poisoning the main killers. Sophisticated 3D animation lends scale to the world of the fighting tunnellers as they laboured in secret in a labyrinth of passages deep below the surface of the ridge and opens up the secrets of the mine chambers themselves. Widescreen aerial photography gives the viewer a glimpse of the sheer enormity of the mining effort as the scarred landscape - like craters on the moon - reveals itself to the camera. The expedition concludes successfully with all the mines of British origin within the park being cleared. But what of the German mining efforts at Vimy? No access has yet been gained to their substantial systems under the ridge and the film poses the question of whether there may be a considerable number of German mines still in place. One chilling fact remains: Many of the remaining charges under the old battlefields of the First World war are likely to be becoming more unstable over time, not less and not all of them will be lying under corn fields! It may be only a matter of time before what happened in 1955, happens again.
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Forgotten aircraft: The Abrams Explorer
The Abrams Explorer is a unique aircraft specifically designed for aerial survey and mapping functions. Built in 1937, the aircraft was designed by Kenneth Ronan, former chief designer for Stinson, and Edward Kunzl, also of Stinson. Dr. Talbert Abrams, founder and CEO of the then newly-formed Abrams Air Craft Corporation and the established Abrams Aerial Survey Corporation of Lansing, Michigan, envisioned the aircraft as an obstruction-free camera platform for survey and mapping businesses, a design in which the U.S. Army showed interest. The initial requirement was to provide the capability for aerial photography, aerial survey, and mapping from near sea level up to an operating altitude of 20,000 feet. It was to provide an unobstructed field of view for the several cameras which meant displacing the usual struts, wing panels, engine cowls, and propeller arc away from the cameraman's normal line of sight. The aircraft was to have an endurance of at least eight hours, climb quickly to altitude, and cruise at a speed of 180 to 200 knots. The resulting configuration was a specially designed two-place non-conventional mid-wing pusher monoplane which had twin booms extending back from the wing trailing edge to support the tail assembly. The-two place crew nacelle was located entirely forward of the wing leading edge and included clear safety glass windows over most of area above the cockpit floor. This is similar to the bombardier's nose section of a World War II medium bomber. The placement of the crew nacelle permitted an almost unobstructed view for photography except for a direct rear view past the engine, propeller and tail structure. The nacelle was pressurized and carried oxygen for crew comfort and operating efficiency at the 20,000 foot operating altitude. The nacelle was faired back over the wing center section to the engine compartment where the Wright R975-E.1 330 hp radial engine, equipped with a NACA cowl and Hamilton Standard controllable pitch propeller, were mounted just aft of the wing's trailing edge. The engine assembly was located between the two fuselage booms that extended back to support the horizontal tail with two vertical tail assemblies. Hermetically-sealed camera ports were provided to permit unobstructed camera operation at those higher operating altitudes while still maintaining proper cabin pressure. The airplane has a fixed tricycle landing gear with low drag streamlined wheel fairings. The structure is of welded steel tubing and the combined crew nacelle and wing center section are covered with sheet aluminum panels. The twin tail booms are of semi-monocoque sheet aluminum construction and the tail assembly and outer wing panels are covered with fabric. The structure is stressed to handle engines of up to 1,000 hp for possible future production models. The first flight was made in November 1937 and the Abrams company flew the airplane, with a full array of cameras, for government contract survey work until the beginning of World War II. The first Wright engine was replaced by a Wright Whirlwind 450 hp engine that raised the maximum speed to more than 200 mph and the performance ceiling to 25,000 feet. It had a rate of climb of 1,500 feet per minute. Unfortunately, Dr. Abrams' plans to produce and sell the airplane to the armed forces and to civilian aerial mapping companies were not successful. His timing was bad for the civilian applications because of the war and the military opted for the more survivable, converted high-speed fighter aircraft for photo reconnaissance. The good performance figures of 1938 were not enough for wartime reconnaissance and a single-purpose aircraft was no longer desirable. As a result, the airplane currently in the possession of the Smithsonian was the only example built. Dr. Abrams lent the Explorer to the National Air Museum in 1948 and, although it was accessioned at that time, the "official" donation was not until 1973. It was acquired as one of the few aircraft designed and used specifically for aerial photography, and it was one of the first U.S. aircraft to employ a tricycle landing gear and the twin boom pusher concept. The aircraft was received with the Wright R-975-E3 450 hp engine and a plastic-covered cabin nacelle. It was transported by military air to Washington and was stored for several years at the Paul E. Garber Restoration and Preservation Facility in Suitland, Maryland. In 1975, the Museum lent the Explorer to the Michigan Aerospace Education Association in Lansing, Michigan, for restoration by students at the Lansing Community College, but, unfortunately, the restoration was not fully completed. In 1981 the airplane was returned to the Garber Facility where it awaits further restoration.
Soviet Spy III
Qplaze® presents Soviet Spy III -- Operation «Umputation» When James Bond was a little English boy, and Mata Hari withdrawn from business log tome ago... When superpowers ruled the world, balancing between cold and nuclear war, and one insane dictator could destroy all our planet... And he would, if only one man... Modest, soviet super spy. Stirlitz. When the ground quivered, and huge crater appeared after the explosion of dictator's African den, Stirlitz didn't even look around. Of course, he studied in spy school that evil likes to pretend dead and arise again, that even when you throw it to the caldron with molten metal it can jump out of there, and then you'll have to kill it with gunstock. Blowing up African bunker of Umput, Stirlitz made sure that his enemy is dead -- as dead as dictator can be dead after the three check shots from bazooka. He didn't see how the huge shadow of flying object covered the place of explosion, a few hours later; and hundreds of flying creatures flew down from their hatches. He didn't see how the strange machines with many legs and creatures operating them, dug into the ground of crater left after the explosion, scattering sand mixed with pieces of concrete. Stirlitz was going to his hydroplane at the seaside. He dreamt of far beaches, of beautiful women and of martini in wept glasses. In a few days, in the secret underwater base in the Barents Sea, he was told everything. He got to know that unknown creatures, after the long search, extracted Umput's remains and delivered it to their flying base, and that this object named «Flying City» for it's size, flew to a Southern pole, where radars have lost it. There at the pole, according to the reconnaissance, were was the most modern and secret laboratory of died dictator. Or, may be, alive one? This question harassed Stirlitz while he tried his new battle space-suit and adjusted top secret model of spy gun in the strategic bomber flying to the pole. Space-suit was equipped not only by armor and life support system, but jet engine, as now Stirlitz had to land to eternal ice zone from stratosphere. His gun had built-in watch, lighter, compass, gyroscope and other stuff he wasn't even going to use. There were thousands of kilometers of ice desert with rare penguins under the plane. According to the aerial photography, Sky City soared above the ice mountains at the height of one kilometer. Setting down to it from the air was too dangerous, so Stirlitz decided to approach it from the land. Mountains were full of strange creatures busy with their strange activity, but it was his usual job to deal with such enemies. Well, may be the job was a little bit unusual, this time... Many hours later, standing in fritted, gnawed and acid stained space-suit on the top of ice mountain, and admiring the view of colossal crater with fragments of Sky City, Stirlitz remembered how naive he was... So, to accomplish the operation «Umputation» Stirlitz will have to: • Use new top secret, battle space-suit with jet engine; • Fight with unknown and dangerous enemies -- zombie-mutants, military robots and secret Umput's woman ally; • Cope with new ultra modern weaponry -- shotgun, hand laser and energy gun -- each of them has two modes of firing; • Improve his weapon and armor in special store between levels; • Chase his opponent during 15 levels, in the Arctic, air laboratories and mysterious Sky City. Participating in adventures of famous super agent you'll be able to: • Enjoy excellent graphics and special effects -- grenade explosions and shots from energy weapon, flashes of lasers, artificial lightnings and even aurora; • Feel yourself as a part of interactive environment -- the Arctic with constantly falling snow, Umput's laboratories full of victims of his experiments, and dismal robotic factories of Sky City; • Enjoy dynamic and captivating gameplay -- fighting with numerous and well armed enemies during lots of levels using new super agent's abilities -- three types of weapon with alternative modes of firing and ability to improve it in pauses between missions.
Oldest Bodybuilder in the World. Ray Moon is well in his 80s but age has never been a problem when it came to his biggest passion, bodybuilding. He’s the oldest bodybuilder in the world and he looks awesome for his age. ...
When Fleeing Tigers fly again - Ceylon Daily News
 Ceylon Daily News | When Fleeing Tigers fly again Ceylon Daily News, Sri Lanka - It would be folly to ignore the LTTE’s most recent aerial attack on the military camp at Thallady in Mannar and the Kelanitissa Power Station in Colombo. ... |
One of Our Mines is Missing!
On July 5th 1955 26000 lbs of high explosives - a MINE, laid deep under German trench lines on the Franco-Belgian border during the First World war - explodes in a thunderstorm at the edge of a cornfield. No one is hurt - there are no eyewitnesses. But it leaves a crater 250 feet across and sixty feet deep. It was one of several charges known to be lying dormant under the battlefields of the Western Front and one of potentially hundreds of mines abandoned at the end of the war by the men who laid them. Narrated by actor John Shrapnel, "One of Our Mines is Missing!", three years in the making, skilfully weaves past and present as it unfolds the story of the search for one of these mines deep within the bowels of Vimy Ridge, a key tactical area of France contested bitterly by the British, Canadians and Germans between 1916-17. Fly on the wall cameras follow WW1 tunnelling expert and retired Royal Engineer - Lt Col Philip Robinson ("War Walks") and his team of EOD specialists as they undertake a hazardous journey underground in search of the missing Broadmarsh mine - a 16 ton leviathon - mooted to be lying abandoned under the Canadian Memorial Park astride the ridge. In the course of the expedition the team, including serving regular and territorial soldiers from the British Army overcome blockages, dangerously low levels of oxygen and the threat of gas - as they attempt to reach the mine. And, for the very first time on television, cameras take us into the heart of this and a second mine chamber - The Durand - as explosives experts attempt to defuse the potentially lethal packages within. Failure could leave at risk the lives of some of the hundreds of thousands of French and international tourists - many of them Canadian, who visit the park every year - The Broadmarsh sits precariously below a busy road junction and the Durand below the park toilets! Using a combination of rare archive photographs and film, together with unique privately sourced material, the film also gives us a historical insight into the protracted and deadly subterranean struggle fought by tunnellers and miners of both sides, where stealth, guile and high explosive were the main weapons; entombment, crushing or gas poisoning the main killers. Sophisticated 3D animation lends scale to the world of the fighting tunnellers as they laboured in secret in a labyrinth of passages deep below the surface of the ridge and opens up the secrets of the mine chambers themselves. Widescreen aerial photography gives the viewer a glimpse of the sheer enormity of the mining effort as the scarred landscape - like craters on the moon - reveals itself to the camera. The expedition concludes successfully with all the mines of British origin within the park being cleared. But what of the German mining efforts at Vimy? No access has yet been gained to their substantial systems under the ridge and the film poses the question of whether there may be a considerable number of German mines still in place. One chilling fact remains: Many of the remaining charges under the old battlefields of the First World war are likely to be becoming more unstable over time, not less and not all of them will be lying under corn fields! It may be only a matter of time before what happened in 1955, happens again.
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Chester author’s books to be published in Middle East - ic CheshireOnline
Chester author’s books to be published in Middle East ic CheshireOnline, UK - “Felicity does find herself in a World War One trench, on the Titanic and in the Twin Towers on 9/11. I think it is the first time an author has used all ... |
A Job with a View - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
A Job with a View The Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - At one point, he and his traveling companion, a "charming" Belgian ethnologist, found themselves in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, during the civil war of ... |
Kentucky.com World - Wire
aerial photography world war one - Google News The fight for the tiny atoll halfway between Hawaii and Australia was one of World War II's most brutal. Battle Anniversary. AP Photo, FILE - U.S. Marines are seen as they advance against Japanese positions during the invasion at Tarawa ...
Forgotten aircraft: The Abrams Explorer
The Abrams Explorer is a unique aircraft specifically designed for aerial survey and mapping functions. Built in 1937, the aircraft was designed by Kenneth Ronan, former chief designer for Stinson, and Edward Kunzl, also of Stinson. Dr. Talbert Abrams, founder and CEO of the then newly-formed Abrams Air Craft Corporation and the established Abrams Aerial Survey Corporation of Lansing, Michigan, envisioned the aircraft as an obstruction-free camera platform for survey and mapping businesses, a design in which the U.S. Army showed interest. The initial requirement was to provide the capability for aerial photography, aerial survey, and mapping from near sea level up to an operating altitude of 20,000 feet. It was to provide an unobstructed field of view for the several cameras which meant displacing the usual struts, wing panels, engine cowls, and propeller arc away from the cameraman's normal line of sight. The aircraft was to have an endurance of at least eight hours, climb quickly to altitude, and cruise at a speed of 180 to 200 knots. The resulting configuration was a specially designed two-place non-conventional mid-wing pusher monoplane which had twin booms extending back from the wing trailing edge to support the tail assembly. The-two place crew nacelle was located entirely forward of the wing leading edge and included clear safety glass windows over most of area above the cockpit floor. This is similar to the bombardier's nose section of a World War II medium bomber. The placement of the crew nacelle permitted an almost unobstructed view for photography except for a direct rear view past the engine, propeller and tail structure. The nacelle was pressurized and carried oxygen for crew comfort and operating efficiency at the 20,000 foot operating altitude. The nacelle was faired back over the wing center section to the engine compartment where the Wright R975-E.1 330 hp radial engine, equipped with a NACA cowl and Hamilton Standard controllable pitch propeller, were mounted just aft of the wing's trailing edge. The engine assembly was located between the two fuselage booms that extended back to support the horizontal tail with two vertical tail assemblies. Hermetically-sealed camera ports were provided to permit unobstructed camera operation at those higher operating altitudes while still maintaining proper cabin pressure. The airplane has a fixed tricycle landing gear with low drag streamlined wheel fairings. The structure is of welded steel tubing and the combined crew nacelle and wing center section are covered with sheet aluminum panels. The twin tail booms are of semi-monocoque sheet aluminum construction and the tail assembly and outer wing panels are covered with fabric. The structure is stressed to handle engines of up to 1,000 hp for possible future production models. The first flight was made in November 1937 and the Abrams company flew the airplane, with a full array of cameras, for government contract survey work until the beginning of World War II. The first Wright engine was replaced by a Wright Whirlwind 450 hp engine that raised the maximum speed to more than 200 mph and the performance ceiling to 25,000 feet. It had a rate of climb of 1,500 feet per minute. Unfortunately, Dr. Abrams' plans to produce and sell the airplane to the armed forces and to civilian aerial mapping companies were not successful. His timing was bad for the civilian applications because of the war and the military opted for the more survivable, converted high-speed fighter aircraft for photo reconnaissance. The good performance figures of 1938 were not enough for wartime reconnaissance and a single-purpose aircraft was no longer desirable. As a result, the airplane currently in the possession of the Smithsonian was the only example built. Dr. Abrams lent the Explorer to the National Air Museum in 1948 and, although it was accessioned at that time, the "official" donation was not until 1973. It was acquired as one of the few aircraft designed and used specifically for aerial photography, and it was one of the first U.S. aircraft to employ a tricycle landing gear and the twin boom pusher concept. The aircraft was received with the Wright R-975-E3 450 hp engine and a plastic-covered cabin nacelle. It was transported by military air to Washington and was stored for several years at the Paul E. Garber Restoration and Preservation Facility in Suitland, Maryland. In 1975, the Museum lent the Explorer to the Michigan Aerospace Education Association in Lansing, Michigan, for restoration by students at the Lansing Community College, but, unfortunately, the restoration was not fully completed. In 1981 the airplane was returned to the Garber Facility where it awaits further restoration.
Soviet Spy III
Qplaze® presents Soviet Spy III -- Operation «Umputation» When James Bond was a little English boy, and Mata Hari withdrawn from business log tome ago... When superpowers ruled the world, balancing between cold and nuclear war, and one insane dictator could destroy all our planet... And he would, if only one man... Modest, soviet super spy. Stirlitz. When the ground quivered, and huge crater appeared after the explosion of dictator's African den, Stirlitz didn't even look around. Of course, he studied in spy school that evil likes to pretend dead and arise again, that even when you throw it to the caldron with molten metal it can jump out of there, and then you'll have to kill it with gunstock. Blowing up African bunker of Umput, Stirlitz made sure that his enemy is dead -- as dead as dictator can be dead after the three check shots from bazooka. He didn't see how the huge shadow of flying object covered the place of explosion, a few hours later; and hundreds of flying creatures flew down from their hatches. He didn't see how the strange machines with many legs and creatures operating them, dug into the ground of crater left after the explosion, scattering sand mixed with pieces of concrete. Stirlitz was going to his hydroplane at the seaside. He dreamt of far beaches, of beautiful women and of martini in wept glasses. In a few days, in the secret underwater base in the Barents Sea, he was told everything. He got to know that unknown creatures, after the long search, extracted Umput's remains and delivered it to their flying base, and that this object named «Flying City» for it's size, flew to a Southern pole, where radars have lost it. There at the pole, according to the reconnaissance, were was the most modern and secret laboratory of died dictator. Or, may be, alive one? This question harassed Stirlitz while he tried his new battle space-suit and adjusted top secret model of spy gun in the strategic bomber flying to the pole. Space-suit was equipped not only by armor and life support system, but jet engine, as now Stirlitz had to land to eternal ice zone from stratosphere. His gun had built-in watch, lighter, compass, gyroscope and other stuff he wasn't even going to use. There were thousands of kilometers of ice desert with rare penguins under the plane. According to the aerial photography, Sky City soared above the ice mountains at the height of one kilometer. Setting down to it from the air was too dangerous, so Stirlitz decided to approach it from the land. Mountains were full of strange creatures busy with their strange activity, but it was his usual job to deal with such enemies. Well, may be the job was a little bit unusual, this time... Many hours later, standing in fritted, gnawed and acid stained space-suit on the top of ice mountain, and admiring the view of colossal crater with fragments of Sky City, Stirlitz remembered how naive he was... So, to accomplish the operation «Umputation» Stirlitz will have to: • Use new top secret, battle space-suit with jet engine; • Fight with unknown and dangerous enemies -- zombie-mutants, military robots and secret Umput's woman ally; • Cope with new ultra modern weaponry -- shotgun, hand laser and energy gun -- each of them has two modes of firing; • Improve his weapon and armor in special store between levels; • Chase his opponent during 15 levels, in the Arctic, air laboratories and mysterious Sky City. Participating in adventures of famous super agent you'll be able to: • Enjoy excellent graphics and special effects -- grenade explosions and shots from energy weapon, flashes of lasers, artificial lightnings and even aurora; • Feel yourself as a part of interactive environment -- the Arctic with constantly falling snow, Umput's laboratories full of victims of his experiments, and dismal robotic factories of Sky City; • Enjoy dynamic and captivating gameplay -- fighting with numerous and well armed enemies during lots of levels using new super agent's abilities -- three types of weapon with alternative modes of firing and ability to improve it in pauses between missions.