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2013-05-04

Boeing X-51A WaveRider test flight

Experimental aircraft speeds to more than 3,000 mph in test flight - latimes.com

May 3, 2013, 10:02 a.m.

A lightning-quick experimental aircraft made history when it sped more than 3,000 mph above the Pacific Ocean in a test flight, reigniting decades-long efforts to develop a vehicle that could travel faster than a speeding bullet.

Source: Experimental aircraft speeds to more than 3,000 mph in test flight - latimes.com

Boeing X-51 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Boeing X-51 (also known as X-51 WaveRider) is an unmanned scramjet demonstration aircraft for hypersonic (Mach 6, approximately 4,000 miles per hour (6,400 km/h) at altitude) flight testing. It successfully completed its first powered flight on 26 May 2010 and also achieved the longest duration flight at speeds over Mach 5.^[1]

The X-51 is named "WaveRider" because it uses its shockwaves to add lift. The program is run as a cooperative effort of the United States Air Force, DARPA, NASA, Boeing, and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne. The program is managed by the Aerospace Systems Directorate within the United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).^[3]^[4] The X-51 had its first captive flight attached to a B-52 in December 2009.

Source: Boeing X-51 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Boeing Company: Defense, Space & Security

Source: The Boeing Company: Defense, Space & Security

Boeing: Boeing X-51A WaveRider Sets Record with Successful 4th Flight

A U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress from Edwards Air Force Base released the X-51A from 50,000 feet above the Point Mugu Naval Air Warfare Center Sea Range at 10:55 a.m. Pacific time. After the B-52 released the X-51A, a solid rocket booster accelerated the vehicle to about Mach 4.8 before the booster and a connecting interstage were jettisoned. The vehicle reached Mach 5.1 powered by its supersonic combustion scramjet engine, which burned all its JP-7 jet fuel. The X-51A made a controlled dive into the Pacific Ocean at the conclusion of its mission. The test fulfilled all mission objectives.

The flight was the fourth X-51A test flight completed for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. It exceeded the previous record set by the program in 2010.

Source: Boeing: Boeing X-51A WaveRider Sets Record with Successful 4th Flight

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2012-05-13

CITE: A Scientific Ghost Town to Test Future Technology

CITE: New Mexico Ghost City Built by Pegasus Holdings Will Test Future Technology And Innovations | Technology | Sky News

A "world first" $1bn scientific ghost city will be built in New Mexico to test the latest next-generation technology.

Researchers will use the facility in Lea County, near Hobbs, to look at everything from intelligent traffic systems and next-generation wireless networks to automated washing machines and self-flushing toilets.

The town will be modelled on the real city of Rock Hill, South Carolina, complete with roads, houses and commercial buildings, old and new.

Source: CITE: New Mexico Ghost City Built by Pegasus Holdings Will Test Future Technology And Innovations | Technology | Sky News

Source: CITE-CITY on KOB Ch 4 News - YouTube

CITE CITY :: Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation :: New Mexico, USA

The Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation (CITE) will be the first of its kind, in scale and scope, fully integrated test, evaluation and certification facility dedicated to enabling and facilitating the commercialization of new and emerging technologies.

CITE will be modeled after a mid-sized modern American city, integrating real-world urban and suburban environments along with all the typical working infrastructure elements that make up today’s cities. This will provide customers the unique opportunity to test and evaluate technologies in conditions that most closely simulate real-world applications.

Source: CITE CITY :: Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation :: New Mexico, USA

CITE Design :: Main :: Facility

CITY LAB
The hallmark of CITE is the City Lab, a full-scale, fully functional test city. City Lab will be a representative example of a modern day, mid-sized American city. It will occupy approximately 400 acres and include urban, suburban and rural zones as well as the corresponding infrastructure. City Lab will be pre-wired for data collection giving researchers the ability to simulate system-wide scenarios and then draw data from such activities.

Source: CITE Design :: Main :: Facility :: CITE CITY :: New Mexico, USA

The Center for Innovation, Testing & Evaluation (CITE) |Services & Solutions | Pegasus Global Holdings

Pegasus Global Holdings has proposed to locate a privately financed owned & operated Center for Innovation, Testing & Evaluation (CITE) in the State of New Mexico. With the support of New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez, Pegasus has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the state's Department of Economic Development.

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Benchmark Test & Evaluation Facilities

Green Energy
One of the fastest growing segments in energy production is focused on green technologies, but challenges still exist in the integration of these technologies into existing out dated infrastructure. CITE will provide unique opportunities to drill down into the cost of introducing solar, wind, and Smart Grid technologies in a real world setting to help determine the next steps to success.
Intelligent Transportation Systems
CITE will be home to a transportation highway/road network consisting of both high-speed, urban canyon, suburban and rural roads permitting testing and demonstration of new Intelligent Transportation System technologies, which are advancing rapidly in Europe and Asia. CITE will provide a highway infrastructure that will allow clients to test and evaluate unmanned vehicle technologies, traffic management systems, and vehicle-based applications without endangering other drivers.
Homeland Security
Homeland security is a key component of the plan for CITE, which will include a secure testing area for first responder technology with the benefit of proximity to the civil and commercial infrastructure.
Next Generation Wireless Infrastructure
A next-generation wireless infrastructure - terrestrial and satellite - is planned to serve CITE, permitting the development, installation, testing and commercialization of high speed broadband technologies across all sectors of our economy, e.g. energy, transportation and security, as well as extension of such services to underserved communities

Source: The Center for Innovation, Testing & Evaluation (CITE) |Services & Solutions | Pegasus Global Holdings

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2009-09-14

World's Largest Earthquake Shake Test

clipped from www.youtube.com

Quake Simulation to Bring Safer Homes

A 40-second experiment in the Japanese city of Miki involves a seven-story wooden building placed on the world's largest shake table, and measuring its movements as its exposed to a 7.5 magnitude quake.

clipped from www.nsf.gov

The final experiment of NSF's multi-year NEESWood project, the effort tested new ways to construct buildings that can withstand severe forces of nature.

After repairs, on July 14th, the six-story wood-frame structure became the subject of the largest shake table test the world has seen to date: six stories, all-wood construction, shaken to motions from the 1994 Northridge earthquake, amplified to a level that equates to an event that occurs, on average, once every 2,500 years.

clipped from www.strongtie.com

World's Largest Earthquake Shake Table Test in Japan

clipped from www.strongtie.com

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Political Compass Test

Representation of political orientations in two dimensions

On the standard left-right scale, how do you distinguish leftists like Stalin and Gandhi? It's not sufficient to say that Stalin was simply more left than Gandhi. There are fundamental political differences between them that the old categories on their own can't explain. Similarly, we generally describe social reactionaries as 'right-wingers', yet that leaves left-wing reactionaries like Robert Mugabe and Pol Pot off the hook.

Not only a Left / Right but also an Libertian / Authoritarian scale is proposed:

Likewise for some well known composers probably:

Take a test to dertermine your own position at:

The Political Compass

via: Political Compass: I am Gandhi!
related: Political compass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Do politicians realize we are all 6 steps away?

2007-12-03

The Myers Briggs model of personality

Myers Briggs and Jung

This website has one of the most extensive ranges of articles and resources available:

Myers Briggs: Questionnaires and Online Resources

clipped from www.teamtechnology.co.uk

Myers Briggs Personality Type

The Myers Briggs model of personality is based on four preferences (E or I, S or N, T or F and J or P). You combine the preferences to give your Myers Briggs personality type. Eg: having preferences for E and S and T and
J gives a personality type of ESTJ. There are sixteen Myers Briggs personality types (listed in the table, right of page).

Myers Briggs Personality Type is based on 4 preferences.

Where, primarily, do you prefer to direct your energy?

How do you prefer to process information?

How do you prefer to make decisions?

How do you prefer to organise your life?

When you put these four letters together, you get your personality type code, and there are sixteen combinations. For example, INTJ indicates that
you prefer Introversion, iNtuition, Thinking and Judging (remember, this indicates preferences only - an INTJ also uses Extraversion, Sensing, Feeling and Perception).

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