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United Aerospace Corporation

  • 1 UAC

    1) Общая лексика: Universal Access Code
    2) Авиация: (United Aircraft Corporation) Объединённая авиастроительная корпорация (ОАК)
    4) Военный термин: Unlimited Ammo Community
    6) Грубое выражение: U Are a Coward
    8) Университет: Undergraduate Advisory Committee
    9) Физиология: Umbilical Artery Catheter
    10) Вычислительная техника: Universal Access Control (IBM)
    11) Урология: urine alcohol concentration
    13) Экология: Upflow Anaerobic Contact
    15) Образование: Up And Coming
    17) Оргтехника: User Access Control (http://www.microsoft.com/rus/technet/technetmag/issues/2006/11/Deployment/default.aspx)

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > UAC

  • 2 Sikorsky, Igor Ivanovich

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
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    b. 25 May 1889 Kiev, Ukraine
    d. 26 October 1972 Easton, Connecticut, USA
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    Russian/American pioneer of large aeroplanes, flying boats, and helicopters.
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    Sikorsky trained as an engineer but developed an interest in aviation at the age of 19 when he was allowed to spend several months in Paris to meet French aviators. He bought an Anzani aero-engine and took it back to Russia, where he designed and built a helicopter. In his own words, "It had one minor technical problem—it would not fly—but otherwise it was a good helicopter".
    Sikorsky turned to aeroplanes and built a series of biplanes: by 1911 the 5–5 was capable of flights lasting an hour. Following this success, the Russian-Baltic Railroad Car Company commissioned Sikorsky to build a large aeroplane. On 13 May 1913 Sikorsky took off in the Grand, the world's first four-engined aeroplane. With a wing span of 28 m (92 ft) it was also the world's largest, and was unique in that the crew were in an enclosed cabin with dual controls. The even larger Ilia Mourometz flew the following year and established many records, including the carriage of sixteen people. During the First World War many of these aircraft were built and served as heavy bombers.
    Following the revolution in Russia during 1917, Sikorsky emigrated first to France and then the United States, where he founded his own company. After building the successful S-38 passenger-carrying amphibian, the Sikorsky Aviation Corporation became part of the United Aircraft Corporation and went on to produce several large flying boats. Of these, the four-engined S-42 was probably the best known, for its service to Hawaii in 1935 and trial flights across the Atlantic in 1937.
    In the late 1930s Sikorsky once again turned his attention to helicopters, and on 14 September 1939 his VS-300 made its first tentative hop, with Sikorsky at the controls. Many improvements were made and on 6 May 1941 Sikorsky made a record-breaking flight of over 1½ hours. The Sikorsky design of a single main lifting rotor combined with a small tail rotor to balance the torque effect has dominated helicopter design to this day. Sikorsky produced a long series of outstanding helicopter designs which are in service throughout the world.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur 1960. Presidential Certificate of Merit 1948. Aeronautical Society Silver Medal 1949.
    Bibliography
    1971, "Sixty years in flying", Aeronautical Journal (Royal Aeronautical Society) (November) (interesting and amusing).
    1938, The Story of the Winged S., New York; 1967, rev. edn.
    Further Reading
    D.Cochrane et al., 1990, The Aviation Careers of Igor Sikorsky, Seattle.
    K.N.Finne, 1988, Igor Sikorsky: The Russian Years, ed. C.J.Bobrow and V.Hardisty, Shrewsbury; orig. pub. in Russian, 1930.
    F.J.Delear, 1969, Igor Sikorsky: His Three Careers in Aviation, New York.
    JDS

    Biographical history of technology > Sikorsky, Igor Ivanovich

  • 3 Johnson, Clarence Leonard (Kelly)

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
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    b. 27 February 1910 Michigan, USA
    d. 21 December 1990 Burbank County, California, USA
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    American aircraft designer responsible for many outstanding Lockheed aircraft over a period of almost forty-eight years.
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    The large and successful Lockheed Aircraft Corporation grew out of a small company founded by Allan and Malcolm Loughhead (pronounced "Lockheed") in 1913. The company employed many notable designers such as Jack Northrop, Jerry Vultee and Lloyd Stearman, but the most productive was "Kelly" Johnson. After studying aeronautical engineering at the University of Michigan, Johnson joined Lockheed in 1933 and gained experience in all the branches of the design department. By 1938 he had been appointed Chief Research Engineer and became involved with the design of the P-38 Lightning twin-boom fighter and the Constellation airliner. In 1943 he set up a super-secret research and development organization called Advanced Development Projects, but this soon became known as the "Skunk Works": the name came from a very mysterious factory which made potions from skunks in the popular comic strip Li'lAbner. The first aircraft designed and built by Johnson's small hand-picked team was the XP-80 Shooting Star prototype jet fighter, which was produced in just 143 days: it became the United States' first production jet fighter. At this stage the Skunk Works produced a prototype, then the main Lockheed factories took over the production run. The F-104 Starfighter and the C-130 Hercules transport were produced in this way and became widely used in many countries. In 1954 work began on the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft which was so secret that production was carried out within the Skunk Works. This made the headlines in 1960 when one was shot down over Russia. Probably the most outstanding of Johnson's designs was the SR-71 Blackbird of 1964, a reconnaissance aircraft capable of flying at Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound). Johnson was not only a great designer, he was also an outstanding manager, and his methods—including his "14 Rules"—have been widely followed. He retired from the Lockheed board in 1980, having been involved in the design of some forty aircraft.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    National Medal of Freedom (the highest United States award for a civilian) 1964.
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1991, Aerospace (Royal Aeronautical Society) (March).
    B.R.Rich, 1989, "The Skunk Works" management style: it's no secret', Aerospace (Royal Aeronautical Society) (March) (Rich was Johnson's successor).
    Details of Lockheed aircraft can be found in several publications, e.g.: R.J.Francillon, 1982, Lockheed Aircraft since 1913, London.
    JDS

    Biographical history of technology > Johnson, Clarence Leonard (Kelly)

  • 4 ITC

    2) Медицина: Isolated Tumor Cell
    6) Железнодорожный термин: Norfolk Southern Railway Company
    9) Биржевой термин: Investment Trust Company
    10) Сокращение: Integrated Tray Converter (FSS), Inter-Task Communication, International Tea Council, International Telecommunication Convention, International Trade Center, International Trade Commission, International Transducer Corp. (USA), International Transport Committee, infantry training centre, International Trading Corporation
    12) Электроника: Instrumentation Tray Cable
    14) Офтальмология: inferotemporal cortex
    16) Банковское дело: международный торговый сертификат (international trading certificate), налоговая скидка для капиталовложений (США; investment tax credit)
    20) Деловая лексика: Information Technology Center
    21) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: see Service Order, задание подрядчику (Instruction to Contractor), инструкция подрядчику (Instruction to Contractor), instructions to contractor (see service order), (see Service Order наряд-заказ (на выполнение работ), общие указанные затраты
    22) Образование: International Training in Communication
    24) Сетевые технологии: integrated terminal controller
    25) Сахалин Р: Instruction to Contractor
    26) Безопасность: Information Trust Corporation
    27) Расширение файла: Interval Time Control
    28) Фантастика Instrumental Transcommunication
    29) Общественная организация: International Trauma Care
    31) Международная торговля: Information Technology Charlotte, International Training Centre

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > ITC

  • 5 Boeing, William Edward

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
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    b. 1 October 1881 Detroit, Michigan, USA
    d. 28 September 1956 USA
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    American aircraft designer, creator of one of the most successful aircraft manufacturing companies in the world.
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    In 1915 William E.Boeing and his friend Commander Conrad Westervelt decided that they could improve on the aeroplanes then being produced in the United States. Boeing was a prominent Seattle businessman with interests in land and timber, while Westervelt was an officer in the US Navy. They bought a Martin Model T float-plane in order to gain some experience and then produced their own design, the B \& W, which first flew in June 1916. Westervelt was transferred to the East, leaving Boeing to continue the production of the B \& W floatplanes, for which purpose he set up the Pacific Aero Products Company. On 26 April 1917 this became the Boeing Airplane Company, which prospered following the US involvement in the First World War.
    In March 1919 Boeing and Edward Hubbard inaugurated the world's first international airmail service between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The Boeing Company then had to face the slump in aircraft manufacturing after the war: they survived, and by 1922 they had started producing a successful series of fighters while continuing to develop their flying-boat and floatplane designs. Boeing set up the Boeing Air Transport Corporation to tender for lucrative airmail contracts and then produced aircraft which could out-perform those of his rivals. The company went from strength to strength and by the end of the 1920s a huge conglomerate had been built up: the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation. They produced an advanced high-speed monoplane mailplane, the model 200 Monomail in 1930, which saw the birth of a new era of Boeing designs.
    The Wall Street crash of 1929 and legislation in 1934, which banned any company from both building aeroplanes and running an airline, were setbacks which the Boeing Airplane Company overcame, moving ahead to become world leaders. William E.Boeing decided that it was time he retired, but he returned to work during the Second World War.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Guggenheim Medal 1934.
    Further Reading
    C.Chant, 1982, Boeing: The World's Greatest Planemakers, Hadley Wood, England (describes William E.Boeing's part in the founding and building up of the Boeing Company).
    P.M.Bowers, 1990, Boeing Aircraft since 1916, 3rd edn, London (covers Boeing's aircraft).
    Boeing Company, 1977, Pedigree of Champions: Boeing since 1916, Seattle.
    JDS

    Biographical history of technology > Boeing, William Edward

  • 6 Bacon, Francis Thomas

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
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    b. 21 December 1904 Billericay, England
    d. 24 May 1992 Little Shelford, Cambridge, England
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    English mechanical engineer, a pioneer in the modern phase of fuel-cell development.
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    After receiving his education at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, Bacon served with C.A. Parsons at Newcastle upon Tyne from 1925 to 1940. From 1946 to 1956 he carried out research on Hydrox fuel cells at Cambridge University and was a consultant on fuel-cell design to a number of organizations throughout the rest of his life.
    Sir William Grove was the first to observe that when oxygen and hydrogen were supplied to platinum electrodes immersed in sulphuric acid a current was produced in an external circuit, but he did not envisage this as a practical source of electrical energy. In the 1930s Bacon started work to develop a hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell that operated at moderate temperatures and pressures using an alkaline electrolyte. In 1940 he was appointed to a post at King's College, London, and there, with the support of the Admiralty, he started full-time experimental work on fuel cells. His brief was to produce a power source for the propulsion of submarines. The following year he was posted as a temporary experimental officer to the Anti-Submarine Experimental Establishment at Fairlie, Ayrshire, and he remained there until the end of the Second World War.
    In 1946 he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Cambridge, receiving a small amount of money from the Electrical Research Association. Backing came six years later from the National Research and Development Corporation (NRDC), the development of the fuel cell being transferred to Marshalls of Cambridge, where Bacon was appointed Consultant.
    By 1959, after almost twenty years of individual effort, he was able to demonstrate a 6 kW (8 hp) power unit capable of driving a small truck. Bacon appreciated that when substantial power was required over long periods the hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell associated with high-pressure gas storage would be more compact than conventional secondary batteries.
    The development of the fuel-cell system pioneered by Bacon was stimulated by a particular need for a compact, lightweight source of power in the United States space programme. Electro-chemical generators using hydrogen-oxygen cells were chosen to provide the main supplies on the Apollo spacecraft for landing on the surface of the moon in 1969. An added advantage of the cells was that they simultaneously provided water. NRDC was largely responsible for the forma-tion of Energy Conversion Ltd, a company that was set up to exploit Bacon's patents and to manufacture fuel cells, and which was supported by British Ropes Ltd, British Petroleum and Guest, Keen \& Nettlefold Ltd at Basingstoke. Bacon was their full-time consultant. In 1971 Energy Conversion's operation was moved to the UK Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, as Fuel Cells Ltd. Bacon remained with them until he retired in 1973.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    OBE 1967. FRS 1972. Royal Society S.G. Brown Medal 1965. Royal Aeronautical Society British Silver Medal 1969.
    Bibliography
    27 February 1952, British patent no. 667,298 (hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell). 1963, contribution in W.Mitchell (ed.), Fuel Cells, New York, pp. 130–92.
    1965, contribution in B.S.Baker (ed.), Hydrocarbon Fuel Cell Technology, New York, pp. 1–7.
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1992, Daily Telegraph (8 June).
    A.McDougal, 1976, Fuel Cells, London (makes an acknowledgement of Bacon's contribution to the design and application of fuel cells).
    D.P.Gregory, 1972, Fuel Cells, London (a concise introduction to fuel-cell technology).
    GW

    Biographical history of technology > Bacon, Francis Thomas

  • 7 Flettner, Anton

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
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    b. 1 November 1885 Eddersheim-am-Main, Germany
    d. 29 December 1961 New York, USA
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    German engineer and inventor who produced a practical helicopter for the German navy in 1940.
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    Anton Flettner was an engineer with a great interest in hydraulics and aerodynamics. At the beginning of the First World War Flettner was recruited by Zeppelin to investigate the possibility of radio-controlled airships as guided missiles. In 1915 he constructed a small radio-controlled tank equipped to cut barbed-wire defences; the military experts rejected it, but he was engaged to investigate radio-controlled pilotless aircraft and he invented a servo-control device to assist their control systems. These servo-controls, or trim tabs, were used on large German bombers towards the end of the war. In 1924 he invented a sailing ship powered by rotating cylinders, but although one of these crossed the Atlantic they were never a commercial success. He also invented a windmill and a marine rudder. In the late 1920s Flettner turned his attention to rotating-wing aircraft, and in 1931 he built a helicopter with small engines mounted on the rotor blades. Progress was slow and it was abandoned after being damaged during testing in 1934. An autogiro followed in 1936, but it caught fire on a test flight and was destroyed. Undeterred, Flettner continued his development work on helicopters and in 1937 produced the Fl 185, which had a single rotor to provide lift and two propellers on outriggers to combat the torque and provide forward thrust. This arrangement was not a great success, so he turned to twin contra-rotating rotors, as used by his rival Focke, but broke new ground by using intermeshing rotors to make a more compact machine. The Fl 265 with its "egg-beater" rotors was ordered by the German navy in 1938 and flew the following year. After exhaustive testing, Flettner improved his design and produced the two-seater Fl 282 Kolibri, which flew in 1940 and became the only helicopter to be used operationally during the Second World War.
    After the war, Flettner moved to the United States where his intermeshing-rotor idea was developed by the Kaman Aircraft Corporation.
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    Bibliography
    1926, Mein Weg zum Rotor, Leipzig; also published as The Story of the Rotor, New York (describes his early work with rotors—i.e. cylinders).
    Further Reading
    W.Gunston and J.Batchelor, 1977, Helicopters 1900–1960, London.
    R.N.Liptrot, 1948, Rotating Wing Activities in Germany during the Period 1939–45, London.
    K.von Gersdorff and K.Knobling, 1982, Hubschrauber und Tragschrauber, Munich (a more recent publication, in German).
    JDS

    Biographical history of technology > Flettner, Anton

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