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Coffee Cup (Redux)

A few nice photo blog images I found:


Coffee Cup (Redux)
photo blog
Image by Williamo!
Blogged here: blog.wolffmyren.com/2008/08/07/coffee-cup-redux/


'Odd Formations', England, The Peak District, Kinder Scout Hilltop
photo blog
Image by WanderingtheWorld (www.LostManProject.com)
Portfolio | Travel Blog | Tumblr | Youtube |Contact Me
Below is an excerpt from my travel blog. Cheers.
The top of Kinder Scout in the Peak District really provides some spectacular views. I was fortunate enough to enjoy some amazing weather while in England.

England has had some recent newspaper headlines that read "4 Million households where no adults work". This means that roughly 7 million Britons under-65-years-olds are currently living with no work experience. Britain even allocates over 36 billion pounds to 'jobseekers'. In other words, if you're out of a job, England will pay you to search for one. Being paid to 'search' for a job doesn't sound like much of an encouragement to find one. What I was even more shocked to learn is the incentives England provides to those who have kids: if you have a child, the government provides housing and a monthly wage. I couldn't find anything to substantiate this fact on the internet but I heard it from more than one person while visiting England.

hackNY spring 2013 student hackathon

Some cool photo printer images:


hackNY spring 2013 student hackathon
photo printer
Image by hackNY
Photo by Matylda Czarnecka

The spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon brought in hundreds of students to Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science April 6-7 for 24 hours of creative collaborative hacking on New York City startups' APIs.

NYC Startups, selected by a student organizing committee, presented their technologies at the beginning of the event, after which students formed groups to work through the night implementing their own ideas for fresh hacks built on top of these APIs.

On Sunday afternoon students presented their projects to an audience including a judging panel featuring members of the NYC startup community, which selected the final winning teams.

Since April 2010, hackNY hosts student hackathons one each semester, as well as the hackNY Fellows program, a structured internship which pairs quantitative and computational students with startups which can demonstrate a strong mentoring environment: a problem for a student to work on, a person to mentor them, and a place for them to work. Startups selected to host a student compensate student Fellows. Students enjoy free housing together and a pedagogical lecture series to introduce them to the ins and outs of joining and founding a startup in NYC.

To find out what you missed at the spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon please do see our HackerLeague event page and blog post announcing the winners.

Special thanks to our spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon judges! And congratulations to the winners of the spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon!


For more information on hackNY's initiatives, please visit www.hackny.org and follow us on twitter @hackNY


hackNY spring 2013 student hackathon
photo printer
Image by hackNY
Photo by Matylda Czarnecka

The spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon brought in hundreds of students to Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science April 6-7 for 24 hours of creative collaborative hacking on New York City startups' APIs.

NYC Startups, selected by a student organizing committee, presented their technologies at the beginning of the event, after which students formed groups to work through the night implementing their own ideas for fresh hacks built on top of these APIs.

On Sunday afternoon students presented their projects to an audience including a judging panel featuring members of the NYC startup community, which selected the final winning teams.

Since April 2010, hackNY hosts student hackathons one each semester, as well as the hackNY Fellows program, a structured internship which pairs quantitative and computational students with startups which can demonstrate a strong mentoring environment: a problem for a student to work on, a person to mentor them, and a place for them to work. Startups selected to host a student compensate student Fellows. Students enjoy free housing together and a pedagogical lecture series to introduce them to the ins and outs of joining and founding a startup in NYC.

To find out what you missed at the spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon please do see our HackerLeague event page and blog post announcing the winners.

Special thanks to our spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon judges! And congratulations to the winners of the spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon!


For more information on hackNY's initiatives, please visit www.hackny.org and follow us on twitter @hackNY


hackNY spring 2013 student hackathon
photo printer
Image by hackNY
Photo by Matylda Czarnecka

The spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon brought in hundreds of students to Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science April 6-7 for 24 hours of creative collaborative hacking on New York City startups' APIs.

NYC Startups, selected by a student organizing committee, presented their technologies at the beginning of the event, after which students formed groups to work through the night implementing their own ideas for fresh hacks built on top of these APIs.

On Sunday afternoon students presented their projects to an audience including a judging panel featuring members of the NYC startup community, which selected the final winning teams.

Since April 2010, hackNY hosts student hackathons one each semester, as well as the hackNY Fellows program, a structured internship which pairs quantitative and computational students with startups which can demonstrate a strong mentoring environment: a problem for a student to work on, a person to mentor them, and a place for them to work. Startups selected to host a student compensate student Fellows. Students enjoy free housing together and a pedagogical lecture series to introduce them to the ins and outs of joining and founding a startup in NYC.

To find out what you missed at the spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon please do see our HackerLeague event page and blog post announcing the winners.

Special thanks to our spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon judges! And congratulations to the winners of the spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon!


For more information on hackNY's initiatives, please visit www.hackny.org and follow us on twitter @hackNY

33061 at Dover

Check out these image upload images:


33061 at Dover
image upload
Image by Tutenkhamun Sleeping
33061 at Dover in 1975. (Larger, cleaner image uploaded 08/10/11)

Image copyright 2011, The Steve Jones Collection.
(Originally featured on the now defunct 'OldBuffers' website.)


Benjamin Gaulon, (я) | Corrupt - The Movie - Full version 45:46min
image upload
Image by Rosa Menkman
www.recyclism.com/corruptimator.php
Corrupt™ is a web based Glitch Art Software allowing its user to upload and share corrupted images on www.corrupt.recyclism.com

This single-channel video is the collection of uploaded images on www.corrupt.recyclism.com since 2005. The video of 45.46 minutes includes 65,462 corrupted images uploaded by thousands of different people over the past years. This video was made with the Corruptimator™ by Brian Solon.

Corruptimator™ is a bunch of Bash shell scripts loosely cobbled together in an attempt to simplify and automate the process of assembling a movie from five years’ worth of images generated by CORRUPT™. Get the source code here


Perfect End
image upload
Image by www.Hull-Wedding-Photographer.co.uk
Been driving around looking for something to shot and came home with 1 or 2 decent shots. Sat uploading pics and saw this out of window !!! All that time drving and my fave shot of day was sat at home !

Did any one else see the strange clouds of Hull on Sunday evening ?

Just before sunset they were like vapor trails or jets...I have pics if any one is interested.

Cool Photo Gallery images

A few nice photo gallery images I found:


Pyromorphite (064)3
photo gallery
Image by Tjflex2
Pyromorphite

Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Siberia, Russia

3.5x2x1 in
9x5x2.5 cm


glass bottle
photo gallery
Image by wolfgangfoto


Sudane Famine
photo gallery
Image by cliff1066™
1994 Pulitzer Prize, Feature Photography, Kevin Carter, The New York Times

By February 1993, South African photojournalist Kevin Carter has spent a decade photographing the political strife roiling his homeland. He describes lying in the middle of a gunfight. "wondering about which millisecond next I was going to die, about putting something on film they could use as my last picture."

Needing a change, Carter travels to the Sudan to cover the relentless East African famine. At a feeding station at Ayod. He finds people so weakened by hunger that they are dying at the rate of 20 an hour. As he photographs their hollow eyes and bloated bellies, Carter hears a soft whimpering in the bush. Investigating, he finds a tiny girl trying to make her way to the feeding center. Carter crouches, readying his camera. Suddenly, a vulture lands nearby. Carter waits. The vulture waits. Carter takes his photographs, then chases the bird away. Afterward, he sits under a tree and cries.

The photograph runs in newspapers worldwide. Carter receives outraged letters and angry midnight phone calls. Everyone wants to know: Why didn't he pick up the child?

Journalists in the Sudan had been told not to touch famine victims, because of the risk of transmitting disease. This is no comfort to Carter, who tells a friend. "I'm really, really sorry I didn’t pick the child up." The controversy and other personal problems overwhelm him. On July 26, 1994, police find Kevin Carter dead, an apparent suicide. He is 33 years old.

Cool Online Image Editor images

A few nice online image editor images I found:


PXN8.COM - Tue Nov 8 13:45:14 2005
online image editor
Image by steenslag
Edited using pxn8.com - The online image editor.
# pxnscript macro begins here
# author:
# date: Tue Nov 8 13:45:14 2005
fetch static.flickr.com/25/41843312_2280067941.jpg
lomo x=500 y=2 width=432 height=2 opacity=60 saturate=true
filter color=%2332cd32 height=396 opacity=75 width=432
retrieve hist=undo
# pxn8.com macro ends here

Christmas card with snowman

Check out these christmas cards photo images:


Christmas card with snowman
christmas cards photo
Image by Karen V Bryan
If you use our photos, please link to the Europe a la Carte Travel Blog:
www.europealacarte.co.uk/blog/


Christmas card with miseltoe
christmas cards photo
Image by Karen V Bryan
If you use our photos, please link to the Europe a la Carte Travel Blog:
www.europealacarte.co.uk/blog/


Christmas card with poinsettia
christmas cards photo
Image by Karen V Bryan
If you use our photos, please link to the Europe a la Carte Travel Blog:
www.europealacarte.co.uk/blog/

Cool Photo Processing images

Some cool photo processing images:


Unidentified Woman
photo processing
Image by George Eastman House
Accession Number: 1974:0193:0632

Maker: Southworth & Hawes

Title: Unidentified Woman

Date: ca. 1850

Medium: daguerreotype

Dimensions: whole plate; 21.6 x 16.4 cm.

George Eastman House Collection

General information about the George Eastman House Photography Collection is available at http://www.eastmanhouse.org/inc/collections/photography.php.

For information on obtaining reproductions go to: www.eastmanhouse.org/flickr/index.php?pid=1974:0193:0632.


Unidentified Woman
photo processing
Image by George Eastman House
Accession Number: 1974:0193:0627

Maker: Southworth & Hawes

Title: Unidentified Woman

Date: ca. 1850

Medium: daguerreotype

Dimensions: whole plate; 21.6 x 16.4 cm.

George Eastman House Collection

General information about the George Eastman House Photography Collection is available at http://www.eastmanhouse.org/inc/collections/photography.php.

For information on obtaining reproductions go to: www.eastmanhouse.org/flickr/index.php?pid=1974:0193:0627.


Unidentified Woman
photo processing
Image by George Eastman House
Accession Number: 1974:0193:0654

Maker: Southworth & Hawes

Title: Unidentified Woman

Date: ca. 1852

Medium: daguerreotype

Dimensions: sixth plate; 8.3 x 7.0 cm.

George Eastman House Collection

General information about the George Eastman House Photography Collection is available at http://www.eastmanhouse.org/inc/collections/photography.php.

For information on obtaining reproductions go to: www.eastmanhouse.org/flickr/index.php?pid=1974:0193:0654.

ARTIST Group 2007 Exhibition and Workshops XXVII

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ARTIST Group 2007 Exhibition and Workshops XXVII
search by image
Image by Keith Bloomfield
Images from the exhibition and workshops run by ARTIST Group 2007. This exhibition took place between 10th and 23rd January 2011 in the Community Art Space and Community Gallery Spaces in the Queen's Square Shopping Centre.

ARTIST (Artist Restart Travelling In Search of Talent) Group 2007 are a group of people who love their craft making and enjoy sharing what they know with others. Most of them are from the West Bromwich areas plus one from the south Birmingham area. They run workshops and craft sale days to help keep the group running.

www.artycrafters.co.uk

The Sandwell Arts in Queen's Square project has been set up to support economic growth and aims to attract new customers and business to Queen’s Square Shopping Centre while promoting local artists and encouraging everyone to get involved in the arts.

Keep an eye out for the changing displays in the empty shop windows from local artists and community groups and get involved in some of the free arts activities organised in Shopping Centre.

Join the Sandwell Arts Facebook page - www.facebook.com/sandwellarts


ARTIST Group 2007 Exhibition and Workshops LVIII
search by image
Image by Keith Bloomfield
Images from the exhibition and workshops run by ARTIST Group 2007. This exhibition took place between 10th and 23rd January 2011 in the Community Art Space and Community Gallery Spaces in the Queen's Square Shopping Centre.

ARTIST (Artist Restart Travelling In Search of Talent) Group 2007 are a group of people who love their craft making and enjoy sharing what they know with others. Most of them are from the West Bromwich areas plus one from the south Birmingham area. They run workshops and craft sale days to help keep the group running.

www.artycrafters.co.uk

The Sandwell Arts in Queen's Square project has been set up to support economic growth and aims to attract new customers and business to Queen’s Square Shopping Centre while promoting local artists and encouraging everyone to get involved in the arts.

Keep an eye out for the changing displays in the empty shop windows from local artists and community groups and get involved in some of the free arts activities organised in Shopping Centre.

Join the Sandwell Arts Facebook page - www.facebook.com/sandwellarts

Cool Image Database images

Check out these image database images:


Pixfav-Images You Love to View
image database
Image by PixFav.com
Great Collection of Pictures from allover the Internet.Our Database has Thousands of Inspiring Pictures...@ Pixfav.com


Pixfav-Images You Love to View
image database
Image by PixFav.com
Great Collection of Pictures from allover the Internet.Our Database has Thousands of Inspiring Pictures...@ Pixfav.com

Cool Image Post images

A few nice image post images I found:


Day-laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)
image post
Image by The Library of Congress
Wolcott, Marion Post,, 1910-1990,, photographer.

Day-laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss.

1939 Nov.

1 slide : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Cotton plantations
Harvesting
United States--Mississippi--Clarksdale

Format: Slides--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 11671-8 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34337

Call Number: LC-USF35-145


Natchez, Miss. (LOC)
image post
Image by The Library of Congress
Wolcott, Marion Post,, 1910-1990,, photographer.

Natchez, Miss.

1940 August

1 slide : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Photograph shows store or cafe with soft drink signs: Coca-Cola, Orange-Crush, Royal Crown, Double Cola, and Dr. Pepper.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Carbonated beverages
Advertisements
Restaurants
United States--Mississippi--Natchez

Format: Slides--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 11671-8 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34333

Call Number: LC-USF35-115

The Royal Yacht Britannia 25-05-2006

Some cool host image images:


The Royal Yacht Britannia 25-05-2006
host image
Image by Karen Roe
This magnificent ship has played host to some of the most famous people in the world. But, above all, she was home to Her Majesty The Queen and the Royal Family. Now in Edinburgh you are welcome on board to discover the heart and soul of this most special of royal residences.

The Royal Yacht Britannia is one of the world's most famous ships. Launched at John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank in 1953, the Royal Yacht proudly served Queen and country for 44 years. During that time Britannia carried The Queen and the Royal Family on 968 official voyages, from the remotest regions of the South Seas to the deepest divides of Antarctica.

Britannia is now permanently moored in Edinburgh's historic port of Leith and visitors can discover what life was like on board the ship for the Royal Family and crew.

On 11 December 1997 Britannia was decommissioned and became a 5-star visitor attraction in Edinburgh after the city bid to become her new home and one of the UK's most prestigious hospitality venues.


The Royal Yacht Britannia 25-05-2006
host image
Image by Karen Roe
This magnificent ship has played host to some of the most famous people in the world. But, above all, she was home to Her Majesty The Queen and the Royal Family. Now in Edinburgh you are welcome on board to discover the heart and soul of this most special of royal residences.

The Royal Yacht Britannia is one of the world's most famous ships. Launched at John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank in 1953, the Royal Yacht proudly served Queen and country for 44 years. During that time Britannia carried The Queen and the Royal Family on 968 official voyages, from the remotest regions of the South Seas to the deepest divides of Antarctica.

Britannia is now permanently moored in Edinburgh's historic port of Leith and visitors can discover what life was like on board the ship for the Royal Family and crew.

On 11 December 1997 Britannia was decommissioned and became a 5-star visitor attraction in Edinburgh after the city bid to become her new home and one of the UK's most prestigious hospitality venues.


The Royal Yacht Britannia 25-05-2006
host image
Image by Karen Roe
This magnificent ship has played host to some of the most famous people in the world. But, above all, she was home to Her Majesty The Queen and the Royal Family. Now in Edinburgh you are welcome on board to discover the heart and soul of this most special of royal residences.

The Royal Yacht Britannia is one of the world's most famous ships. Launched at John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank in 1953, the Royal Yacht proudly served Queen and country for 44 years. During that time Britannia carried The Queen and the Royal Family on 968 official voyages, from the remotest regions of the South Seas to the deepest divides of Antarctica.

Britannia is now permanently moored in Edinburgh's historic port of Leith and visitors can discover what life was like on board the ship for the Royal Family and crew.

On 11 December 1997 Britannia was decommissioned and became a 5-star visitor attraction in Edinburgh after the city bid to become her new home and one of the UK's most prestigious hospitality venues.

Nice Picture Collage photos

Check out these picture collage images:


Picture This! Collage Workshop
picture collage
Image by Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
Susan Schafer
Adult Services


Dr. Allison
is a docile old man with
giant bifocals.


Picture This! Collage Workshop
picture collage
Image by Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
Lori Williams
Bookmobile


Brilliant colors of rainbows...
The butterflies dance—
rippling like water.


Picture This! Collage Workshop
picture collage
Image by Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
Joey Embers
Digital Services


A spy pigeon has
taken a post across from
our bathroom window.

free concrete texture, seamless libeskind judische museum bump, seier+seier

A few nice share photos images I found:


free concrete texture, seamless libeskind judische museum bump, seier+seier
share photos
Image by seier+seier
sharing my homemade architectural hi-res textures for those of you who work in 3D or photoshop.

size, 3400x3400 pixels.

basic bump map for concrete texture from libeskind's jewish museum in berlin

main texture above:)

the full set of architectural textures that tile seamlessly here.


(animated stereo) Beddgelert Bridge, 1860
share photos
Image by Thiophene_Guy
To see the animated image and a cropped detail medium sized scroll down to the first comment below; to see the large view original size.

Details and History
Pellethepoet shares a multitude of vintage images. This 1860 Francis Bedford image of Beddgelert, Bridge and Lodging Houses at. shows two pedestrians posing on the bridge. The Bedford Archive at the University of Birmingham preserves a sizable portion of his work and offers a helpful biography. The catalog of original prints is a useful reference.

Copyright Advisory
The purpose here is not to duplicate the original image, from Pellethepoet's Flickr stream, but to generate a downloadable animated gif to assist viewing and presentation. The original image is out of copyright, but the digital copy is indicated All Rights Reserved. I was kindly granted permission to generate and share these gifs. The original image, available in higher resolution with additional details and discussion, is here: www.flickr.com/photos/pellethepoet/5558071951/ .

Technical trivia
The images was darkened by generating a duplicate, adjusting curves in HSV colorspace (Picturewindow Pro) to fit the brightness histogram to the window (brightening highlights, darkening shadows) , then blending the duplicate with the original. Weak noise suppression (Noiseware) was applied to clean up the dark areas. Subsequent Image manipulations and gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.


WeShareMusic
share photos
Image by Exit Festival
More info: eng.exitfest.org/news-all-fiktivni-94/12000-we-share-music

Photo by: Jovan Djokic

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: Space Shuttle Enterprise (nose view)

Some cool photo search images:


Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: Space Shuttle Enterprise (nose view)
photo search
Image by Chris Devers
See more photos of this, and the Wikipedia article.

Details, quoting from Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Space Shuttle Enterprise:

Manufacturer:
Rockwell International Corporation

Country of Origin:
United States of America

Dimensions:
Overall: 57 ft. tall x 122 ft. long x 78 ft. wing span, 150,000 lb.
(1737.36 x 3718.57 x 2377.44cm, 68039.6kg)

Materials:
Aluminum airframe and body with some fiberglass features; payload bay doors are graphite epoxy composite; thermal tiles are simulated (polyurethane foam) except for test samples of actual tiles and thermal blankets.

The first Space Shuttle orbiter, "Enterprise," is a full-scale test vehicle used for flights in the atmosphere and tests on the ground; it is not equipped for spaceflight. Although the airframe and flight control elements are like those of the Shuttles flown in space, this vehicle has no propulsion system and only simulated thermal tiles because these features were not needed for atmospheric and ground tests. "Enterprise" was rolled out at Rockwell International's assembly facility in Palmdale, California, in 1976. In 1977, it entered service for a nine-month-long approach-and-landing test flight program. Thereafter it was used for vibration tests and fit checks at NASA centers, and it also appeared in the 1983 Paris Air Show and the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans. In 1985, NASA transferred "Enterprise" to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.

Transferred from National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• • •

Quoting from Wikipedia | Space Shuttle Enterprise:

The Space Shuttle Enterprise (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-101) was the first Space Shuttle orbiter. It was built for NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program to perform test flights in the atmosphere. It was constructed without engines or a functional heat shield, and was therefore not capable of spaceflight.

Originally, Enterprise had been intended to be refitted for orbital flight, which would have made it the second space shuttle to fly after Columbia. However, during the construction of Columbia, details of the final design changed, particularly with regard to the weight of the fuselage and wings. Refitting Enterprise for spaceflight would have involved dismantling the orbiter and returning the sections to subcontractors across the country. As this was an expensive proposition, it was determined to be less costly to build Challenger around a body frame (STA-099) that had been created as a test article. Similarly, Enterprise was considered for refit to replace Challenger after the latter was destroyed, but Endeavour was built from structural spares instead.


Service

Construction began on the first orbiter on June 4, 1974. Designated OV-101, it was originally planned to be named Constitution and unveiled on Constitution Day, September 17, 1976. A write-in campaign by Trekkies to President Gerald Ford asked that the orbiter be named after the Starship Enterprise, featured on the television show Star Trek. Although Ford did not mention the campaign, the president—who during World War II had served on the aircraft carrier USS Monterey (CVL-26) that served with USS Enterprise (CV-6)—said that he was "partial to the name" and overrode NASA officials.

The design of OV-101 was not the same as that planned for OV-102, the first flight model; the tail was constructed differently, and it did not have the interfaces to mount OMS pods. A large number of subsystems—ranging from main engines to radar equipment—were not installed on this vehicle, but the capacity to add them in the future was retained. Instead of a thermal protection system, its surface was primarily fiberglass.

In mid-1976, the orbiter was used for ground vibration tests, allowing engineers to compare data from an actual flight vehicle with theoretical models.

On September 17, 1976, Enterprise was rolled out of Rockwell's plant at Palmdale, California. In recognition of its fictional namesake, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and most of the principal cast of the original series of Star Trek were on hand at the dedication ceremony.

Approach and landing tests (ALT)

Main article: Approach and Landing Tests

On January 31, 1977, it was taken by road to Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, to begin operational testing.

While at NASA Dryden, Enterprise was used by NASA for a variety of ground and flight tests intended to validate aspects of the shuttle program. The initial nine-month testing period was referred to by the acronym ALT, for "Approach and Landing Test". These tests included a maiden "flight" on February 18, 1977 atop a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) to measure structural loads and ground handling and braking characteristics of the mated system. Ground tests of all orbiter subsystems were carried out to verify functionality prior to atmospheric flight.

The mated Enterprise/SCA combination was then subjected to five test flights with Enterprise unmanned and unactivated. The purpose of these test flights was to measure the flight characteristics of the mated combination. These tests were followed with three test flights with Enterprise manned to test the shuttle flight control systems.

Enterprise underwent five free flights where the craft separated from the SCA and was landed under astronaut control. These tests verified the flight characteristics of the orbiter design and were carried out under several aerodynamic and weight configurations. On the fifth and final glider flight, pilot-induced oscillation problems were revealed, which had to be addressed before the first orbital launch occurred.

On August 12, 1977, the space shuttle Enterprise flew on its own for the first time.

Preparation for STS-1

Following the ALT program, Enterprise was ferried among several NASA facilities to configure the craft for vibration testing. In June 1979, it was mated with an external tank and solid rocket boosters (known as a boilerplate configuration) and tested in a launch configuration at Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39A.

Retirement

With the completion of critical testing, Enterprise was partially disassembled to allow certain components to be reused in other shuttles, then underwent an international tour visiting France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the U.S. states of California, Alabama, and Louisiana (during the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition). It was also used to fit-check the never-used shuttle launch pad at Vandenberg AFB, California. Finally, on November 18, 1985, Enterprise was ferried to Washington, D.C., where it became property of the Smithsonian Institution.

Post-Challenger

After the Challenger disaster, NASA considered using Enterprise as a replacement. However refitting the shuttle with all of the necessary equipment needed for it to be used in space was considered, but instead it was decided to use spares constructed at the same time as Discovery and Atlantis to build Endeavour.

Post-Columbia

In 2003, after the breakup of Columbia during re-entry, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board conducted tests at Southwest Research Institute, which used an air gun to shoot foam blocks of similar size, mass and speed to that which struck Columbia at a test structure which mechanically replicated the orbiter wing leading edge. They removed a fiberglass panel from Enterprise's wing to perform analysis of the material and attached it to the test structure, then shot a foam block at it. While the panel was not broken as a result of the test, the impact was enough to permanently deform a seal. As the reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC) panel on Columbia was 2.5 times weaker, this suggested that the RCC leading edge would have been shattered. Additional tests on the fiberglass were canceled in order not to risk damaging the test apparatus, and a panel from Discovery was tested to determine the effects of the foam on a similarly-aged RCC leading edge. On July 7, 2003, a foam impact test created a hole 41 cm by 42.5 cm (16.1 inches by 16.7 inches) in the protective RCC panel. The tests clearly demonstrated that a foam impact of the type Columbia sustained could seriously breach the protective RCC panels on the wing leading edge.

The board determined that the probable cause of the accident was that the foam impact caused a breach of a reinforced carbon-carbon panel along the leading edge of Columbia's left wing, allowing hot gases generated during re-entry to enter the wing and cause structural collapse. This caused Columbia to spin out of control, breaking up with the loss of the entire crew.

Museum exhibit

Enterprise was stored at the Smithsonian's hangar at Washington Dulles International Airport before it was restored and moved to the newly built Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles International Airport, where it has been the centerpiece of the space collection. On April 12, 2011, NASA announced that Space Shuttle Discovery, the most traveled orbiter in the fleet, will be added to the collection once the Shuttle fleet is retired. When that happens, Enterprise will be moved to the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York City, to a newly constructed hangar adjacent to the museum. In preparation for the anticipated relocation, engineers evaluated the vehicle in early 2010 and determined that it was safe to fly on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft once again.


Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: Northrop P-61C Black Widow
photo search
Image by Chris Devers
Compare & contrast:

Northrop P-61C Black widow:
* Front view
* Above view

Star Wars ARC-170 Fighter:
* Official page
* Wikia
* Wikipedia
* Toy review

I put it to you that they're the SAME THING.

* twin engines
* double-cockpit in front
* gunner's cockpit in back
* broad wing coming out from the middle

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Details, quoting from Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: Steven F. Udvar-Hazy | Northrop P-61C Black Widow:

The P-61 Black Widow was the first U.S. aircraft designed to locate and destroy enemy aircraft at night and in bad weather, a feat made possible by the use of on-board radar. The prototype first flew in 1942. P-61 combat operations began just after D-Day, June 6, 1944, when Black Widows flew deep into German airspace, bombing and strafing trains and road traffic. Operations in the Pacific began at about the same time. By the end of World War II, Black Widows had seen combat in every theater and had destroyed 127 enemy aircraft and 18 German V-1 buzz bombs.

The Museum’s Black Widow, a P-61C-1-NO, was delivered to the Army Air Forces in July 1945. It participated in cold-weather tests, high-altitude drop tests, and in the National Thunderstorm Project, for which the top turret was removed to make room for thunderstorm monitoring equipment.

Transferred from the United States Air Force.

Manufacturer:
Northrop Aircraft Inc.

Date:
1943

Country of Origin:
United States of America

Dimensions:
Overall: 450 x 1500cm, 10637kg, 2000cm (14ft 9 3/16in. x 49ft 2 9/16in., 23450.3lb., 65ft 7 3/8in.)

Long Description:
The P-61 Black Widow was the first United States aircraft designed from the start to find and destroy other aircraft at night and in bad weather. It served in combat for only the final year of World War II but flew in the European, Mediterranean, Pacific, and China-Burma-India theaters. Black Widow crews destroyed 127 enemy aircraft and 18 robot V-1 buzz bombs.

Jack Northrop's big fighter was born during the dark days of the Battle of Britain and the London Blitz in 1940. British successes against German daylight bombers forced the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) to shift to night bombing. By the time Royal Air Force (RAF) Spitfires could launch, climb out, and then try to intercept these raids, the bombers crews had usually dropped their loads and turned for home. An aircraft was needed to patrol the skies over England for up to seven hours during the night, and then follow radar vectors to attack German aircraft before they reached their target. U.S. Army Air Corps officers noted this requirement and decided that America must have a night fighter if and when it entered the war.

The Army awarded a contract to Northrop on January 30, 1941. The resulting design featured twin tail booms and rudders for stability when the aircraft closed in behind an intruder. It was a large aircraft with a big fuel load and two powerful engines. Armament evolved into four 20 mm cannons mounted in the belly firing forward and a powered, remote-controlled turret on top of the center fuselage equipped with four .50 cal. machine guns. The three-man crew consisted of the pilot, a gunner seated behind him, and a radar observer/gunner at the rear behind the gun turret. Only the pilot could fire the cannons but any of the three could operate the machine guns.

Simultaneously, work was proceeding, at a laboratory run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to develop the airborne radar set. The Army tested an early design in a Douglas B-18 in 1941. The much-improved SCR-520 set was ready by early 1942. Meanwhile, Army enthusiasm for the XP-61 produced another contract on March 10, 1941, for 13 service-test YP-61s. Even before these airplanes flew, Northrop received orders for 410 production machines! Northrop test pilot Vance Breeze flew the aircraft on May 26, 1942. Although the Black Widow was nearly as large as a medium bomber, it was a true fighter. The only prohibited flight maneuvers were outside loops, sustained inverted flight, and deliberate spins.

As Northrop advanced the design toward production, supply problems arose and modifications became necessary. The 4-gun top turret was the same type fitted to the top forward position on the Boeing B-29 Superfortress (see NASM collection) and that bomber had production priority over the P-61. As a result, several hundred P-61s did not have this turret. Those that did experienced buffeting when the turret was traversed from side to side and a fix took time. By October 1943, the first P-61s were coming off the line. Training started immediately, and the first night fighters arrived in the European Theater by March 1944. Combat operations began just after D-Day (June 6) and the Black Widows quickly departed from their original role as defensive interceptors and became aggressors. They flew deep into German airspace, bombing and strafing trains and road traffic and making travel difficult for the enemy by day and at night.

P-61s arrived in the Pacific Theater at about the same time as the European Black Widows. For years, the Japanese had operated lone bombers over Allied targets at night and now U. S. fighters could locate and attack them. However, on June 30, 1944, a Mitsubishi BETTY (see NASM collection) became the first P-61 kill in the Pacific. Soon, Black Widows controlled the night skies. On the night of August 14-15, a P-61 named "Lady in the Dark" by her crew encountered an intruding Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa (Peregrine Falcon) OSCAR (see NASM collection) and eventually forced it into the sea without firing a shot. Although the war was officially over, no one was sure that all of the Japanese had heard the message and stopped fighting. The American night fighters flew again the next night and "Lady in the Dark" again found a target. It was a Nakajima Ki-44 Shoki (Demon) TOJO and the fighters maneuvered wildly as they attempted to gain an advantage. The P-61 crew lost and reacquired the Ki-44 several times then finally lost it for good and returned to base. The next day ground troops found the wrecked TOJO. In the darkness, Lady in the Dark's crew had forced the Japanese pilot to fly into the ground, again without firing a shot.

With the war over, the Army cancelled further production. Northrop had built 706 aircraft including 36 with a highly modified center fuselage. These F-15As (later redesignated RF-61C) mounted a number of cameras in the nose and proved able reconnaissance platforms. Many of these airplanes participated in the first good aerial photographic survey of the Pacific islands. A few, plus some special purpose P-61s, stayed in active service until 1950.

NASM's Black Widow is a P-61C-1-NO, U.S. Army Air Forces serial number 43-8330. Northrop delivered it to the Army on July 28, 1945. By October 18, this P-61 was flying at Ladd Field, Alaska, in cold weather tests and it remained there until March 30, 1946. This airplane later moved to Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida, for participation in the National Thunderstorm Project. The project's goal was to learn more about thunderstorms and to use this knowledge to better protect civil and military airplanes that operated near them. The U. S. Weather Bureau and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) undertook the study with cooperation from the Army Air Forces and Navy. With its radar and particular flight characteristics, the P-61 was capable of finding the most turbulent regions of a storm, penetrating them, and returning crew and instruments intact for detailed study.

Pinecastle personnel removed the guns and turret from 43-8330 in July 1946 to make room for new equipment. In September, the aircraft moved to Clinton County Army Air Base, Ohio, where it remained until January 1948. The Air Force then assigned the aircraft to the Flight Test Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. After declaring the airplane surplus in 1950, the Air Force stored it at Park Ridge, Illinois, on October 3 along with important aircraft destined for the National Air Museum.

But 43-8830 was not done flying. NACA asked the Smithsonian to lend them the aircraft for use in another special program. The committee wanted to investigate how aerodynamic shapes behaved when dropped from high altitude. The Black Widow arrived at the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Naval Air Station Moffett Field, California, on February 14, 1951. NACA returned the aircraft and delivered it to the Smithsonian at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, on August 10, 1954. When the engines shut down for the last time, this P-61 had accumulated only 530 total flight hours. Smithsonian personnel trucked it to the Paul Garber Facility in Suitland, Maryland. In 2006, the aircraft was preserved and assembled at the Udvar-Hazy Center. The three different paint schemes from its past service life have been revealed by carefully removing individual layers of paint.


Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: Space exhibit, Mobile Quarantine Facility decontamination from the Apollo missions (detail of "AMERICAN STANDARD" plaque and "PROJECT APOLLO RECOVERY TEAM" sticket with Snoopy (from Peanuts) in space helmet)
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Image by Chris Devers
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Details, quoting from Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Mobile Quarantine Facility

Contractor:
Melpar, Inc.

Manufacturer:
Airstream, Inc.

Country of Origin:
United States of America

Dimensions:
Overall: 8 ft. 7 in. tall x 9 ft. wide x 35 ft. deep, 12499.9 lb. (261.62 x 274.32 x 1066.8cm, 5669.9kg)

Materials:
Aluminum, Glass

This Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) was one of four built by NASA for astronauts returning from the Moon. Its purpose was to prevent the unlikely spread of lunar contagions by isolating the astronauts from contact with other people. A converted Airstream trailer, the MQF contained living and sleeping quarters, a kitchen, and a bathroom. Quarantine was assured by keeping the air pressure inside lower than the pressure outside and by filtering the air vented from the facility.

This MQF was used by Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins immediately after their return to Earth. They remained in it for 65 hours, while the MQF was flown from the aircraft carrier Hornet to the Johnson Space Center in Houston. They were allowed to emerge once scientists were sure they were not infected with "moon germs."

NASA transferred the MQF to the Smithsonian Institution in 1974.

Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Garden Path - Background 76

A few nice change background image images I found:


Garden Path - Background 76
change background image
Image by ~Brenda-Starr~
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Please do not redistribute or make small changes and claim it as your own.

Please provide credit via a link under your work back to this image or to my account where possible.

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Thank you,
Brenda.

I belong to this set ~Backgrounds~


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Garden Arch - Background 80
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Image by ~Brenda-Starr~
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Please do not redistribute or make small changes and claim it as your own.

Please provide credit via a link under your work back to this image or to my account where possible.

I would love to see how you use this image, so please leave me a link or a small copy in my comment box below.

Thank you,
Brenda.

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Cool Image Website images

A few nice image website images I found:


Waterworks - 007
image website
Image by bestarns [www.spiritofdecay.com]
Urbex Session : Waterworks (DE) , 07.2013
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Hotel les r - Room 04
image website
Image by bestarns [www.spiritofdecay.com]
Urbex Session : Hotel les r (FR) , 06.2013
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Feelin’ Kinda Low Today

A few nice photo website images I found:


Feelin’ Kinda Low Today
photo website
Image by “Caveman Chuck” Coker
The Mecca, California Post Office is the lowest Post Office in the United States.

The USPS’s website says the Post Office is 180 feet below sea level. I took measurements approximately six inches in front of the sill plate (about where the door is opened to in the photo) and found it to be 184 feet below sea level.

Mecca Post Office
91307 2nd St
Mecca, CA 92254-6515

GPS Coordinates
N 33°34.202’ W116°04.423’ –184 feet (–56 meters)

This started with a conversation with ketankumar, who is looking for photos of superlative post offices (highest, lowest, easternmost, westernmost, etc.). He asked to use one of my photos of the Peach Springs, Arizona Post Office for postcards—it is the only U.S. Post Office with walk-in freezers. I said sure—it’s always a bit of an ego boost for me when someone wants to use one of my photos.

I mentioned that I was surprised that the USPS listed Mecca as the lowest. I thought Niland or Calipatria might be lower. Since it’s bad karma to not take advantage of an excuse for a day trip, we took off to measure the altitudes of the Post Offices around the Salton Sea.

These are the other Post Offices around the Salton Sea:

Niland Post Office
8108 Highway 111
Niland, CA 92257-9800
N33°14.520’ W115°31.116’ –138 feet (–42 meters)

Calipatria Post Office
190 W Main St
Calipatria, CA 92233-9998
N33°07.560’ W115°30.976’ –180 feet (–55 meters) Missed it by that much!

Westmorland Post Office
199 S Center St
Westmorland, CA 92281-9998
N33°02.112’ W115°37.298’ –160 feet (–49 meters)

Brawley Post Office
401 Main St
Brawley, CA 92227-9998
N32°58.723’ W115°32.168’ –108 feet (–33 meters)

Salton City Post Office
2113 S Marina Drive
Salton City, CA 92274-8432
N33°16.826’ W115°57.698’ –95 feet (–29 meters)

So I found out that the Mecca, California Post Office is the lowest. You learn something new every day.

Of course, there is always the Death Valley Post Office at Furnace Creek in Death Valley. Furnace Creek’s altitude is –190 feet (–58 meters). It looks like another trip may be in store. Just to make sure.

Death Valley Post Office
328 Greenland Blvd
Death Valley, CA 92328-9998



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Model: Charity Nicole - Cyanotype
photo website
Image by char1iej
Used the BeFunky.com website's Cyanotype #6 to edit and create this image. Look how her eyes pop, as her hair fades into the furry jacket. IMO, an excellent result from BeFunky.com.

BeFunky.com picked this image up on their homepage September 21, 2010. I'm so blessed. This is my 3rd photo edit picked up by BeFunky.com. As of mid-morning, October 7th, this photo had cycled off the main page at BeFunky.com. Overall, it received 1,300+ views. AWESOME!

Cool Image Url images

A few nice image url images I found:


Gertrude Dallas (LOC)
image url
Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

Gertrude Dallas

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.18379

Call Number: LC-B2- 3379-3


J. Lemm (LOC)
image url
Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

J. Lemm

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.11072

Call Number: LC-B2- 2470-10


Suffrage shop (LOC)
image url
Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

Suffrage shop

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.18952

Call Number: LC-B2- 3453-2

Nice Photo Booth Rental photos

Some cool photo booth rental images:


IMG_0203
photo booth rental
Image by Paparazzi Girl
Bridal Salon Event 3.25.13


IMG_0029
photo booth rental
Image by Paparazzi Girl
Bridal Salon Event 3.25.13

Nice Image Library photos

Some cool image library images:


Traffic policemen on point duty, corner of Park and College Streets, 17 August 1934, by Ted Hood
image library
Image by State Library of New South Wales collection
Format: Photograph

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Girls dancing, c. 1930s, by Sam Hood
image library
Image by State Library of New South Wales collection
Format: Photograph

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The "Boomerangs" [recruitment marches, 1915-1916] during their march through Forbes - Forbes, NSW, by Howes Studios
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Image by State Library of New South Wales collection
Format: Photograph

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