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TO CHANGE the an Idea Born in Switzerland WORLD to Be Continued… 2 / RTW LOGBOOK 1ST PART / SOLAR IMPULSE
EXPLORATION TO CHANGE the An idea born in Switzerland WORLD to be continued… 2 / RTW LOGBOOK 1ST PART / SOLAR IMPULSE SOLAR IMPULSE “A WEAPON […] TO SHOW AN AMBASSADOR THE NEED TO POWER FOR A H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco OUR WORLD ON CLEAN CLEAN FUTURE A technological and One could easily imagine oneself in a human adventure SIR RICHARD BRANSON Jules Verne novel: a team wanting to that encapsulates ENERGY” promote renewable energies sets off the challenges of around the world in a solar airplane, the 21st century and shows change aiming to fly without fuel or pollution… is possible. A new utopia? A great science fiction scenario? On the contrary, an innovative technological challenge! A project ambi- tious enough to arouse the emotions and unleash passions: to harness clean and renewable energies and use them freely to fly day and night. Is it possible to invent a more responsible future? The only way to find out is to try… with the necessary means. By writing new pages of aviation history using solar energy, Solar Impulse is demonstrating the enormous potential of clean technologies for energy saving and renewable energy production. James Cameron A great way to attract attention to the issue of solar energy. 4 / RTW LOGBOOK 1ST PART / PIONEERING SPIRIT STRATOSPHERIC BALLOON FNRS Auguste Piccard Invention of the pressurized cabin and first ascent into the stratosphere in 1931, reaching an altitude of 16,000 m/52,000 feet. “A GIANT STEP FORWARD SENDING A STRONG MESSAGE TO PEOPLE BATHYSCAPHE TRIESTE AROUND THE WORLD” PIONEERING SPIRIT Jacques Piccard BAN KI-MOON The construction EXPLORING of the bathyscaphe (invented by Auguste) and deepest dive ever BREITLING THE UNKNOWN ORBITER 3 BALLOON With each of their great “firsts”, the adven- to the bottom of the Mariana Trench at Bertrand Piccard turers of the last century constantly pushed 10,916 m/36,000 feet. -
Ten Years Ago, Borschberg Flew up to 9235M Onboard Solar Impulse
PRESS RELEASE For 8 July 2020 Ten years ago, Borschberg flew up to 9235m onboard Solar Impulse Lausanne, Switzerland, 1 July 2020 – Ten years ago on 8 July 2010, Swiss pilot André Borschberg established an extraordinary FAI world record, which remains unbeaten, by reaching the altitude of 9235m with an aircraft powered by the energy of the sun. The flight was made at the Payerne air base, Switzerland, with one-seater airplane Solar Impulse. During this flight, he set two other records: Gain of height (8744m) and Duration (26h10m19s), also in the Solar-Powered Airplane category. He took off on 7 July and landed the next day, thus making the first overnight flight in the history of solar aviation. These three records marked the first official recognition of the Solar Impulse’s performances. In the following years, FAI ratified a series of records by either pilots Bertrand Piccard or André Borschberg onboard two different Solar Impulse aircraft. HB-SIA, rolled out in 2009, was used until 2013 to make several solar aviation firsts, such as the July 2010 flight and the 2013 crossing of the USA in several legs. HB-SIB, presented to the public in 2014, was flown alternately by Piccard and Borschberg to complete the circumnavigation of Earth in several legs from 2015 to 2016. André Borschberg, now 67, considers himself an entrepreneur with a passion for exploration. Pursuing his childhood dream of flying, he trained as a pilot in the Swiss Air Force and then earned several degrees in engineering and management. In 2003, he met fellow countryman and adventurer Bertrand Piccard, who, in 1999, achieved the first non-stop ballooning flight around the world. -
Tradition Well Served Well Tradition
TRADITION WELL SERVED TRADITION 2016 1 A LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN nniversaries are a time to pause and reflect. As we review The new company, as well as owning hotels in Hong Kong, now our past, it is important to recognise the many milestones had full control over Shanghai’s Astor House and Palace Hotel. that have shaped our company, and to remember the Later additions were The Majestic in Shanghai and the Grand Hotel Aindividuals whose legacies have ensured the beneficial role that we des Wagons-Lits in Peking. have played in Hong Kong’s success story. Plans were soon afoot for a third hotel to be built on the Our history begins in the latter part of the nineteenth century: Kowloon peninsula – at the time a sleepy backwater. Although six years after Kowloon was ceded to Great Britain, and 32 years originally a government project to take advantage of the transport before the New Territories were leased. Sedan chairs and rickshaws links afforded by the railway terminus and the nearby quays of were the transport of the day. Kowloon, it was Taggart’s vision and determination that ensured The 1860s were a period of growing interest in the Far East The Peninsula Hotel, when opened, would become “the finest hotel and, thanks to popular literature at the time, Hong Kong held a east of Suez”. Due to a number of construction challenges, this particular fascination for travellers attracted to the orient. The project was nearly abandoned, but Taggart persisted despite growth of tourism was facilitated by entrepreneurs such as Thomas objections from shareholders who believed any hotel built in Cook who arranged fledging tour services for independent travellers Kowloon would be a “white elephant”. -
Great Cloud of Witnesses.Indd
A Great Cloud of Witnesses i ii A Great Cloud of Witnesses A Calendar of Commemorations iii Copyright © 2016 by The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America Portions of this book may be reproduced by a congregation for its own use. Commercial or large-scale reproduction for sale of any portion of this book or of the book as a whole, without the written permission of Church Publishing Incorporated, is prohibited. Cover design and typesetting by Linda Brooks ISBN-13: 978-0-89869-962-3 (binder) ISBN-13: 978-0-89869-966-1 (pbk.) ISBN-13: 978-0-89869-963-0 (ebook) Church Publishing, Incorporated. 19 East 34th Street New York, New York 10016 www.churchpublishing.org iv Contents Introduction vii On Commemorations and the Book of Common Prayer viii On the Making of Saints x How to Use These Materials xiii Commemorations Calendar of Commemorations Commemorations Appendix a1 Commons of Saints and Propers for Various Occasions a5 Commons of Saints a7 Various Occasions from the Book of Common Prayer a37 New Propers for Various Occasions a63 Guidelines for Continuing Alteration of the Calendar a71 Criteria for Additions to A Great Cloud of Witnesses a73 Procedures for Local Calendars and Memorials a75 Procedures for Churchwide Recognition a76 Procedures to Remove Commemorations a77 v vi Introduction This volume, A Great Cloud of Witnesses, is a further step in the development of liturgical commemorations within the life of The Episcopal Church. These developments fall under three categories. First, this volume presents a wide array of possible commemorations for individuals and congregations to observe. -
Holy Dying a Feminist Theologian Views Abortion
publication. and reuse for required Permission Lethal Legacy: Radwaste DFMS. / Larry Medsker Church Jeannette Piccard: Holy Dying Episcopal Alia Bozarth-Campbell • Chester Talton • Daniel Corrigan the of A Feminist Theologian Views Abortion Archives Beverly Wiidung Harrison 2020. Copyright the Left had by then turned its attention opposition to abortion is a matter of a to stopping the U.S. involvement in prurient and anti-woman bigotry. Vietnam. There was little energy and They are apparently unaware (or less vision remaining with which to choose to keep their readers unaware) tackle the tenacles of sexism. of the large numbers of feminist, Haitt and Heyward contend that progressive, and peaceful Christians sexism was the "volatile, explosive, and who oppose abortion because it is decisive" issue of the 1980 elections, violent — it is bloody — and it snuffs out precipitating the defeat of President human lives. LETTERS Carter and sundry U.S. Senators. Or is this perhaps another of those Special pleading alone would pick that "dirty little secrets"? TnTTTHll Q issue from the complex fabric of factors Ms. Juli Loesch affecting voters in late 1980. The Prolifers for Survival economy, foreign affairs, political Erie, Pa. publication. organization, money, to say nothing of regional and state-by-state differences and contributed to the liberal debacle (Iowa has never in the century re-elected a Heyward, Hiatt Respond reuse Authors' Ire Emotional Democratic Senator). And to suggest Dr. Kastner is precisely correct in his for The essay of the Revs. Suzanne Hiatt that Jimmy Carter was in the same final observation that the Right has and Carter Heyward on "Right-Wing liberal circles on women's issues as capitalized on the weariness and Religion's 'Dirty Little Secret' " Senators McGovern and Bayh is bizarre required weakness of the Left. -
AEM Update Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Winter 2014 Visiting Fulbright Scholar Reflects on Experience
AEM Update Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Winter 2014 Visiting Fulbright Scholar Reflects on Experience Visiting Fulbright Scholar Bela Distinguished McKnight University Professor Gary Balas. “We Takarics joined the University’s De- are always looking to advance our research and see this as a partment of Aerospace Engineering great opportunity to do so. The department has had a strong and Mechanics in December 2013. connection with the Hungarian Academy of Science. We truly Working as a Research Associate, benefit from the exchange of scholars between our two institu- Takarics’ interests include reduced tions. ” order modeling with a focus on aeroservoelastic vehicles and how their models vary across the flight envelope, and the application of Only three months into his stay, Takarics is highly motivated a Tensor Product model based control design to aeroservoelastic ve- by the work he has accomplished, claiming that his research hicles. Now three months into his five-month stay, Takarics says his is on the “fast track in terms of development” and expressing experience thus far has been “absolutely amazing.” interest in extending his stay for an additional four months. When asked what is attributing to this success, Takarics Prior to applying for the Fulbright Scholar explains that working in the laboratory and Program, Takarics received a Masters in Me- Since joining the AEM collaborating with other researchers has been chanical Engineering and a PhD in Control team, my research has been incredibly helpful. Theory from Budapest University of Technolo- “ gy and Economics. In 2010 he began working on the fast track in terms of “In Hungary, theoretical research can be as a Research Fellow to develop a robust and development. -
Don Piccard 50 Years & BM
July 1997 $3.50 BALLOON LIFE EDITOR MAGAZINE 50 Years 1997 marks the 50th anniversary for a number of important dates in aviation history Volume 12, Number 7 including the formation of the U.S. Air Force. The most widely known of the 1947 July 1997 Editor-In-Chief “firsts” is Chuck Yeager’s breaking the sound barrier in an experimental jet—the X-1. Publisher Today two other famous firsts are celebrated on television by the “X-Files.” In early Tom Hamilton July near the small southwestern New Mexico town of Roswell the first aliens from outer Contributing Editors space were reported to have been taken into custody when their “flying saucer” crashed Ron Behrmann, George Denniston, and burned. Mike Rose, Peter Stekel The other surreal first had taken place two weeks earlier. Kenneth Arnold observed Columnists a strange sight while flying a search and rescue mission near Mt. Rainier in Washington Christine Kalakuka, Bill Murtorff, Don Piccard state. After he landed in Pendelton, Oregon he told reporters that he had seen a group of Staff Photographer flying objects. He described the ships as being “pie shaped” with “half domes” coming Ron Behrmann out the tops. Arnold coined the term “flying saucers.” Contributors For the last fifty years unidentified flying objects have dominated unexplainable Allen Amsbaugh, Roger Bansemer, sighting in the sky. Even sonic booms from jet aircraft can still generate phone calls to Jan Frjdman, Graham Hannah, local emergency assistance numbers. Glen Moyer, Bill Randol, Polly Anna Randol, Rob Schantz, Today, debate about visitors from another galaxy captures the headlines. -
Jeannette (Ridlon) Piccard (1895 – 1981) 1St Woman in Stratosphere
Jeannette (Ridlon) Piccard (1895 – 1981) 1st Woman in Stratosphere 1st Female Episcopal Priest Jeannette (Ridlon) Piccard, daughter of pioneering orthopedic surgeon Dr. John Ridlon (1852 – 1936) and his wife Emily Robinson (1859 – 1942) was herself a pioneer on two fronts. Jeannette was born Jan. 5, 1895 in Chicago, the 8th of 9 children. She had a twin sister Beatrice who died at age 3. Jeanette grew up in Chicago, summering at a family home Rhuddlans on the Cliff in Newport, RI. See the Dr. John Ridlon Father of Orthopedic Surgery entry in this collection for more information on Jeannette’s Ridlon & Robinson families. Jeannette received a Bachelors degree in Philosophy and Psychology from Bryn Mawr College in 1918 and in 1919 a Masters degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of Chicago. It was there that she met her future husband Jean Felix Piccard (1884 – 1963), a Swiss native who was teaching chemistry at that school. They married in 1919 and subsequently relocated to Switzerland where all three of their sons were born. In 1926 they were back living in the US where they continued to live for the remainder of their lives (Massachusetts, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and finally Minnesota). Jean and his twin brother Auguste who lived in Belgium were both pioneers in their balloon flights into the stratosphere, Auguste having done his first in Germany in 1931. In 1934 Jean and Jeannette Piccard flew a balloon to 57,559 feet into the stratosphere, making Jeannette the first woman in the world to enter the stratosphere. Prior to that flight she had been the first woman in the US licensed as a balloon pilot. -
Paper Takes Flight Teacher Materials
Paper Takes Flight Teacher Materials Contents: LESSON PLAN .............................................................................................................................. 1 Summary: .................................................................................................................................... 1 Objectives:................................................................................................................................... 1 Materials:..................................................................................................................................... 1 Safety Instructions:...................................................................................................................... 1 Background: ................................................................................................................................ 1 Procedure:.................................................................................................................................... 2 Discussion ................................................................................................................................... 2 Assessment/Evaluation:............................................................................................................... 3 Extensions: .................................................................................................................................. 3 Math Integration......................................................................................................................... -
VOL. 63, NO. 10 OCTOBER, 1980 Married Clergy, Separated Churches • Robert L. Dewitt on the Ordination of Gays • Louie Crew T
publication. and reuse for required Permission DFMS. / Church Episcopal the of Archives 2020. Copyright VOL. 63, NO. 10 OCTOBER, 1980 Married Clergy, Separated Churches • Robert L. DeWitt On the Ordination of Gays • Louie Crew The Spirit of Anglicanism • William J. Wolf agrees that both Matthew and Mark as would start that way — and I know quite well as Luke say thaf'only Jesus and the a few who are serious about their life in Twelve sat or recli ned at the table." Were the church. I think they would they lying to back up some chauvinistic acknowledge their limited under- idea? standing of church politics and get on No, Miss Piccard, you may have a D.D. with proposing a working agenda. Even but you also have a clouded mind unable more to the point, they understand that to accept the facts as they are, and not they have a lot of work to do inside their what you would like them to be. own limited, human institutions The Rev. Brian J. Stych, L.Th. (unions) and assume that other people Northcote, Auckland have the same task. New Zealand What is it that causes Christian liberals and progressives to be so preachy about the labor movement? We Challenges Piccard Piccard Responds know very little about the best work that publication. I was doubtful about writing to you, but I would like to thank the Rev. Brian J. they do among the poor and and my wife feels I should, so I must reply to Stych, L.Th. for bringing out another unorganized. -
Lucy Luck Stefan Inducted Into the U
Lucy Luck Stefan Inducted into the U. S. Ballooning Hall of Fame August 2, 2009 Born March 15, 1923 in St. Paul Minnesota Lucy’s interest, love and enthusiasm for flying probably began when she was eight years old when her oldest brother bought her a ride on an airplane at World Chamberlain Airport in Minneapolis. At an early age, her Dad described Lucy as a "Sparkplug". To her siblings she was "Sparky” and she still is!!! And she is definitely a “Sparkplug” in the history of ballooning. As one of the early women aeronautical engineering students at the university in Minnesota, she met Professor Jean Piccard and his balloonist wife Jeanette Piccard. Professor Piccard became one of her college professors. During her ballooning activities she flew with Tony Fairbanks in Philadelphia and met Tracy Barnes in Minneapolis and got to know such notable balloonists as Malcolm Forbes, Dewey Reinhart, Bertrand Piccard and Eddie Allen. Her Commercial Pilot, Lighter-Than-Air, Free Balloon License (limited to hot air balloons, with or without airborne heaters) is dated October 31, 1973. She received this in the early days of ballooning when all you had to do was sign your name on the license. She received her fixed wing aircraft pilot’s license when she was 40 years old, and has been around ballooning for fifty years. She was never actually a balloon pilot, but was a crew member and an observer for many years. Lucy has flown in both gas and hot air balloons. Her most spectacular flights were three that she had in Switzerland flying over the Swiss Alps and landing twice in Germany and once in Italy. -
Smith, Ann Robb
The Archives of Women in Theological Scholarship The Burke Library (Columbia University Libraries) At Union Theological Seminary, New York Finding Aid for Ann Robb Smith Papers, 1971 - 2004 Finding Aid prepared by: Ruth Tonkiss Cameron, May 2006 Additional material prepared by: Patricia LaRosa, July 2006, revised by Ruth Tonkiss Cameron, July 2008 Summary Information Creator: Ann Robb Smith Title: Ann Robb Smith Papers Inclusive dates: 1971 - 2004 Bulk Dates: 1974 - 1975 Abstract: Member of the Women’s ordination planning group prior to the ordination of the first women Episcopal Priests at the Church of the Advocate, Philadelphia, July 29, 1974 [the Philadelphia 11]; lay presenter for the ordination of Sue Hiatt; ordained Asst at Church of the Advocate. Contains newspaper clippings, articles, correspondence, minutes of planning meetings, reports, statements, sermons, service sheets, and the ordination service sheet for the Philadelphia 11, July 29, 1974. Size: 2 boxes, 1 linear ft. Storage: On-site storage Repository: The Burke Library Union Theological Seminary 3041 Broadway New York, NY 10027 Email: [email protected] AWTS: Ann Robb Smith Papers 2 Administrative Information Provenance: Ann Robb Smith donated her papers to the Archives of Women in Theological Scholarship in October 1999 with another addition in 2006. Some of the material donated consists of records from the Women’s Ordination Now support group. Access: Archival papers are available to registered readers for consultation by appointment only. Please contact archives staff by email to [email protected], or by postal mail to The Burke Library address on page 1, as far in advance as possible Burke Library staff is available for inquiries or to request a consultation on archival or special collections research.