Monday, June 9, 2014

Daily Afternoon Randomness (63 Photos)

Daily Afternoon Randomness (63 Photos)

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Daily Afternoon Randomness (63 Photos)

Posted: 09 Jun 2014 12:29 PM PDT

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Posted: 09 Jun 2014 12:00 PM PDT

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Photo of the Day (Click here for High-Res Photo)

Posted: 08 Jun 2014 09:15 PM PDT

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NASA led the way: X-15 (58 HQ Photos)

Posted: 08 Jun 2014 09:13 PM PDT

The North American X-15 was a rocket-powered aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as part of the X-plane series of experimental aircraft. The X-15 set speed and altitude records in the 1960s, reaching the edge of outer space and returning with valuable data used in aircraft and spacecraft design. As of 2014, the X-15 holds the official world record for the highest speed ever reached by a manned, powered aircraft. Its maximum speed was 4,520 miles per hour. During the X-15 program, 13 flights by eight pilots met the Air Force spaceflight criterion by exceeding the altitude of 50 miles (80 km), thus qualifying the pilots for astronaut status. The Air Force pilots qualified for astronaut wings immediately, while the civilian pilots were awarded NASA astronaut wings in 2005, 35 years after the last X-15 flight. The sole Navy pilot in the X-15 program never took the aircraft above the requisite 50 mile altitude. Source

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Virgin Galactic’s VSS Enterprise in high-res (83 HQ Photos)

Posted: 08 Jun 2014 09:11 PM PDT

From Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipOne/WhiteKnightTwo to the "VSS Enterprise"…this is the future (for better or not). That being said, many NASA minds are going into this project. VSS Enterprise Makes First Crewed Flight 15th July was a significant milestone for Scaled Composites as the team march towards the first solo flights of VSS Enterprise. For the first time VSS Enterprise flew with crew on board. As planned, the spaceship remained attached to VMS Eve (captive) for the duration of the flight and numerous combined vehicle systems tests were conducted. In addition and for the first time, the two crew members on board VSS Enterprise, evaluated all of the spaceship's systems and functions from end to end in the air. Objectives achieved. Congratulations to the whole team! Mission Details: ▪ WhiteKnightTwo (VMS Eve) flight number 33 ▪ SpaceShipTwo (VSS Enterprise) flight number three in captive carry configuration. ▪ Flight Time: 6 hours 12 minutes ▪ VMS Eve crew: Mark Stucky, Peter Kalogiannis, Brian Maisler ▪ VSS Enterprise crew: Peter Siebold, Michael Alsbury A total of 370 customers have already placed a deposit (totaling $50 million) for a place on the flight, and about 80,000 people have placed their names on the waiting list. The trip will cost about US$200,000, and passengers will experience a few minutes of weightlessness during the suborbital flight. Source

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One problem, the cartridge fit the Mauser: French Chatellerault FM Mle (24 Photos)

Posted: 08 Jun 2014 09:06 PM PDT

The Chatellerault FM Mle 1924-29 was the French military's replacement for the 1915 Chauchat automatic rifle. It was clear after WWI that the Chauchat design was flawed, and a new weapon was required. The military high command had also made the decision to change to a rimless cartridge. After testing of all the major designs available (Madsen, BAR, Hotchkiss, Lewis and Berthier), the Chatellerault was designed with the best parts of the Hotchkiss and BAR. It fed from a 25-round magazine, with a deliberately slow 450 RPM rate of fire. The gun was adopted in 1924 using a 7.5x58mm cartridge. It was discovered, however, that the German 8mm Mauser cartridge would chamber and fire in the gun – destroying it in the process. This was a problem, as significant numbers of captured German machine guns in 8mm were in use by the French military at the time and the two cartridges looked fairly similar. The solution arrived at was to change the French standard round to 7.5x54mm, resulting in a chamber too short to accept any other military cartridge. This modification was designated the Mle 1924-29, and by the end of 1934 all existing guns had been converted to the new cartridge.

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