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This book provides background and analyses on the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) which was created by executive order in 1951. As a result, the Departments of Commerce (DOC) and Defense (DOD) formulated a contingency plan to meet the nation's airlift needs in times of crisis. When the Department of Transportation (DOT) was created, it assumed DOC's role in the CRAF program, and today, DOD and DOT work together to manage the CRAF program. The CRAF supports DOD airlift requirements in emergencies when the need for airlift exceeds the capability of the military aircraft fleet. All CRAF participan
Civil reserve air fleet. --- Aeronautics, Commercial --- Airlift, Military --- Emergency transportation
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"Trusty's Hill is an early medieval fort at Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway. The hillfort comprises a fortified citadel defined by a vitrified rampart around its summit, with a number of enclosures looping out along lower-lying terraces and crags. The approach to its summit is flanked on one side by a circular rock-cut basin and on the other side by Pictish Symbols carved on to the face of a natural outcrop of bedrock. This Pictish inscribed stone is unique in Dumfries and Galloway, and southern Scotland, and has long puzzled scholars as to why the symbols were carved so far from Pictland and even if they are genuine. The Galloway Picts Project, launched in 2012, aimed to recover evidence for the archaeological context of the inscribed stone, but far from validating the existence of Picts in this southerly region of Scotland, the archaeological context instead suggests that the carvings relate to a royal stronghold and place of inauguration for the local Britons of Galloway around AD 600. Examined in the context of contemporary sites across southern Scotland and northern England, the archaeological evidence from Galloway suggests that this region may have been the heart of the lost Dark Age kingdom of Rheged, a kingdom that was in the late sixth century pre-eminent amongst the kingdoms of the north. The new archaeological evidence from Trusty's Hill enhances our perception of power, politics, economy and culture at a time when the foundations for the kingdoms of Scotland, England and Wales were being laid"--Provided by publisher.
Fortification --- Fortification, Primitive --- Forts --- Military engineering --- Siege warfare --- Gatehouse of Fleet (Scotland) --- Antiquities.
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Great Britain. --- F.A.A. --- FAA --- Fleet Air Arm (Great Britain) --- History.
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This book provides selected results from the accompanying research of the project CROME. The vision of the project was to create and test a safe, seamless, user-friendly and reliable mobility with electric vehicles between France and Germany as a prefiguration of a pan-European electric mobility system. Major aims were contributions to the European standardisation process of charging infrastructure for electric mobility and corresponding services, and to provide an early customer feedback.
Frankreich --- Electric Vehicle --- Elektromobilität --- Ladeinfrastruktur --- Fleet Test --- France --- Flottentest --- Charging Infrastructure --- ElektrofahrzeugElectric Mobility
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The next generation of driver assistance systems and highly automated driving functions are based on digital maps. In order to meet the high requirements on the correctness and up-to-dateness of this information, this work presents new automated methods to extract up-to-date map information from fleet data. The focus is on the inference of static intersection information from fleet data through machine learning and statistical methods.
Maschinelles Lernen --- Flottendaten --- Intersection Information --- Lichtsignalanlage --- Automated Map Creation --- Fleet Data --- Traffic Light --- Automatisierte Kartenerstellung --- Kreuzungsinformationen --- Machine Learning
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During the late eighteenth century, a musical–cultural phenomenon swept the globe. The English square piano—invented in the early 1760s by an entrepreneurial German guitar maker in London—not only became an indispensable part of social life, but also inspired the creation of an expressive and scintillating repertoire. Square pianos reinforced music as life’s counterpoint, and were played by royalty, by musicians of the highest calibre and by aspiring amateurs alike. On Sunday, 13 May 1787, a square piano departed from Portsmouth on board the Sirius, the flagship of the First Fleet, bound for Botany Bay. Who made the First Fleet piano, and when was it made? Who owned it? Who played it, and who listened? What music did the instrument sound out, and within what contexts was its voice heard? What became of the First Fleet piano after its arrival on antipodean soil, and who played a part in the instrument’s subsequent history? Two extant instruments contend for the title ‘First Fleet piano’; which of these made the epic journey to Botany Bay in 1787–88? The First Fleet Piano: A Musician’s View answers these questions, and provides tantalising glimpses of social and cultural life both in Georgian England and in the early colony at Sydney Cove. The First Fleet piano is placed within the musical and social contexts for which it was created, and narratives of the individuals whose lives have been touched by the instrument are woven together into an account of the First Fleet piano’s conjunction with the forces of history. Note: Volume 1 and 2 are sold as a set ($120 for both) and cannot be purchased separately.
Australia --- Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles --- Australasian & Pacific history --- Social & cultural history --- music --- first fleet --- social history --- piano --- History.
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"As a 26-year old Marine radar intercept officer (RIO), Fleet Lentz flew 131 combat missions in the back seat of the supersonic F-4 B Phantom II during the wind-down of the Vietnam War. Overcoming military regulations, he and his fellow Marines at The Rose Garden (Royal Thai Air Base Nam Phong) kept sorely needed supplies moving in while moving combat troops out of Southeast Asia. His personal and accessible memoir describes how pilots and RIOs executed dangerous air-to-ground bombing missions in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos-quite different from the air-to-air warfare for which they had trained-and kept themselves mission-capable (and human) while surviving harsh circumstances."
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Aerial operations, American. --- Lentz, Fleet S., --- United States. --- Nam Phong Royal Thai Air Force Base. --- Military life.
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Airplanes, Military --- Aeroplanes, Military --- Military airplanes --- War planes --- Warplanes --- Aeronautics, Military --- Government aircraft --- Air warfare --- History. --- Great Britain. Royal Navy. --- Great Britain. --- F.A.A. --- FAA --- Fleet Air Arm (Great Britain)
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In Building the Trident Network, Maggie Mort approaches the United Kingdom's Trident submarine and missile system as a sociotechnical network. Drawing on the sociology of scientific and technical knowledge and on actor-network theory, Mort recounts how the Trident program was stabilized in the United Kingdom and brought into "successful" production. She uncovers the nature of this success by retelling unofficial histories of Trident, of production roads not taken, and of potential technological "distractions." The production of Trident, she shows, was not inevitable but contingent and problematic. Using material from interviews and local texts, Mort explores the emergence of a counternetwork in the form of a workers' campaign for alternative technologies. She develops concepts of "disenrollment" and "absent intermediaries," in which redundant workers and marginalized technologies serve to discipline and reinforce the dominant network as production shrinks. She also examines the maintenance of the barrier between the technical and the social/political in this context. The management of uncertainties within the Trident production program emerges as critical to its successful completion.--
Trident (Weapons systems) --- Military-industrial complex --- Naval Science - General --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Design and construction. --- United States. --- Great Britain. --- Procurement. --- Industrial-military complex --- D-5 Trident (Weapons systems) --- צי הבריטי --- U.S. Navy --- Defense industries --- Fleet ballistic missile weapons systems --- England and Wales. --- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
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