Dragon Medical Images I found:
Group photo with a flash
Image by theirhistory
George & the Dragon, the Parkside group at Stafford.
Employee souls at the last days of Megatest Teradyne
Image by wbaiv
It started innocently enough – it always does. The little earth-balls with arms and legs were some corporate services promotion – central part number allocation, CAD model sourcing or medical benefits help- something legitimate you might care about. They, or HR, probably put them on everyone’s desk early in the morning, and some obvious jokes were made out of them. Both Megatest and Teradyne had given out the foam earth balls – no arms or legs, just our name stamped on – at trade shows and college hiring events in the preceding years.
Teradyne closed the former Megatest office at the end of 2005, with something like 6 months notice to everyone who was losing their job. Down here at the logic test end we’d popped out 4 products in 6 years, shipping for 2 different platforms and developing for one more, something we felt pretty darn good about. I was still doing productive work in December, but many people were gone, and it was getting a little spooky.
And then, one day, these balls started appearing along one of the permanent cube walls. Pretty soon there were a bunch of them, and each person leaving added theirs to the set. There were dozens of them, and they were soon referred to as "employee souls". Cosmic. With the usual hands and feet exchanged, something stabbed through the ball, faces made from map pins and all the rest. Mine is the one second from the right, with an airplane weapon safety pin and flag. Pin stuck right through the middle, of course. In the distance, on the left, you can see someone has theirs rising out of a pencil box with a CD serving as wings or a halo… As collective art, its pretty cool. As collective art made by nerds in silicon valley, its worth remembering. It was a good bunch of people.
(Granted, Megatest had set a pretty high standard for this sort of stuff – somewere is a photo of the miniature golf course (windmill included) that was put up in place of the whole software department’s cube farm in the happy years before, oh, 1993 when I joined. Looked like 80s. I’m sure there are other stories…)
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Marine Week Boston, 2010: Bell UH-1N Huey helicopter flying over Boston Common
Image by Chris Devers
Pasting from Wikipedia about the Uh-1N Huey helicopter:
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The UH-1 Iroquois is a military helicopter powered by a single, turboshaft engine, with a two-bladed main rotor and tail rotor. The helicopter was developed by Bell Helicopter to meet the United States Army‘s requirement for a medical evacuation and utility helicopter in 1952, and first flew on 20 October 1956. Ordered into production in March 1960, the UH-1 was the first turbine-powered helicopter to enter production for the United States military, and more than 16,000 have been produced worldwide.[1]
The first combat operation of the UH-1 was in the service of the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. The original designation of HU-1 led to the helicopter’s nickname of Huey.[2] In September 1962, the designation was changed to UH-1, but Huey remained in common use, as well as being chosen as the official name by the United States Marine Corps. Approximately 7,000 UH-1 aircraft saw service in Vietnam.
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In 1962, the Marines held a competition to choose an assault support helicopter to replace the Cessna O-1 fixed-wing aircraft and the Kaman OH-43D helicopter. The winner was the UH-1B, which was already in service with the Army. The helicopter was designated the UH-1E and modified to meet Marine requirements. The major changes included the use of all-aluminum construction for corrosion resistance,[footnote 3] radios compatible with Marine Corps ground frequencies, a rotor brake for shipboard use–to stop the rotor quickly on shutdown–and a roof-mounted rescue hoist.
The UH-1E was first flown on 7 October 1963, and deliveries commenced 21 February 1964, with 192 aircraft completed. Due to production line realities at Bell, the UH-1E was produced in two different versions, both with the same UH-1E designation. The first 34 built were essentially UH-1B airframes with the Lycoming T53-L-11 engine producing 1,100 shp (820 kW). When Bell switched production to the UH-1C, the UH-1E production benefited from the same changes. The Marine Corps later upgraded UH-1E engines to the Lycoming T53-L-13, which produced 1,400 shp (1,000 kW), after the Army introduced the UH-1M and upgraded their UH-1C helicopters to the same engine.
Quoting Wikipedia about the MV-22B Osprey:
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The Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey is a multi-mission, military, tiltrotor aircraft with both a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL), and short takeoff and landing (STOL) capability. It is designed to combine the functionality of a conventional helicopter with the long-range, high-speed cruise performance of a turboprop aircraft.
The V-22 originated from the U.S. Department of Defense Joint-service Vertical take-off/landing Experimental (JVX) aircraft program started in 1981. It was developed jointly by the Bell Helicopter, and Boeing Helicopters team, known as Bell Boeing, which produce the aircraft.[4] The V-22 first flew in 1989, and began years of flight testing and design alterations.
The United States Marine Corps began crew training for the Osprey in 2000, and fielded it in 2007. The Osprey’s other operator, the U.S. Air Force fielded their version of the tiltrotor in 2009. Since entering service with the U.S. Marine Corps and Air Force, the Osprey has been deployed for combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Variants
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MV-22B
Basic U.S. Marine Corps transport; original requirement for 552 (now 360). The Marine Corps is the lead service in the development of the V-22 Osprey. The Marine Corps variant, the MV-22B, is an assault transport for troops, equipment and supplies, capable of operating from ships or from expeditionary airfields ashore. It is replacing the Marine Corps’ CH-46E[57] and CH-53D.[94]
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Pasting from Wikipedia about the Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion:
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The Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion is the largest and heaviest helicopter in the United States military. It was developed from the CH-53 Sea Stallion, mainly by adding a third engine. Sailors and Marines commonly refer to the Super Stallion as the "Hurricane Maker" because of the downwash the helicopter generates. It was built by Sikorsky Aircraft for the United States Marine Corps. The less common MH-53E Sea Dragon fills the United States Navy‘s need for long range mine sweeping or Airborne Mine Countermeasures (AMCM) missions, and perform heavy-lift duties for the Navy. The CH-53E/MH-53E are designated "S-80" by Sikorsky.
