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Feb 28, 2018

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A man bought abandoned Boeing 727 to make a shelter

Bruce Campbell lives in an airplane. Yes, an actual jet. The Portland-based aeronautics enthusiast makes his home in a converted Boeing 727 that was once used as a Greek aircraft until the mid-1960s and now resides in a forest near Portland.

This story is a part of our Planet Earth series. From mammals to insects and birds to reptiles, we share this great big world with all manner of creatures, large and small. Come with us to faraway places as we explore our great big planet and meet some of its wildest inhabitants.

Feb 27, 2018

News Alert - Japan Force Deployed F-35s To Counter China & Russia Increa...

News Alert - Japan Self Defense Force Deployed F-35s To Counter China & Russia Increasing Territorial Aggression
Japan's defense minister has instructed Air Self-Defense Force personnel to take steps to strengthen the country's defense.

Itsunori Onodera spoke on Saturday at an event at the ASDF's Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, to mark the deployment of an F-35 stealth fighter at the base.
The aircraft is the first of 42 F-35s that are to be introduced in Japan as its next-generation mainstay fighter.
Onodera said China and Russia have increased their military activities around Japan. He said the deployment of the F-35s has great significance as Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War Two.
Onodera also touched on Japan's plan to equip the aircraft with long-range Joint Strike Missiles, which can travel 500 kilometers.
The minister said the F-35's stealth capability and the long-range missiles will allow the Self-Defense Forces to counter aggression outside the range of enemy defense systems, while securing the safety of SDF crews.
He later told reporters that it is important for Japan to strengthen its air defense. He said the government will take that into account when reviewing the National Defense Program Outline.

Feb 26, 2018

World's Largest Ship Elevator Opens at Three Gorges Dam in Central China

The world's largest ship elevator at the Three Gorges Dam opened in Yichang City, central China's Hubei Province, on Sunday, with a prospect to increase the shipping capacity past the dam by six million tons a year.

The elevator, the existing largest lifting structure on a navigation route with the highest technical difficulty of the world, features large engineering scope, high lifting height and large weight lifting operation.

The largest weight to be handled by the elevator is freighter of 3,000 DWT(deadweight ton) and the maximum vertical lifting height is 113 meters.

The main components of the structure are four 169-meter high reinforced concrete towers. The chamber, a self-support orthotropic plate structure that is 120 meters long and 18 meters wide, works as a gigantic basin.

Weighting around 15,500 tons, the elevator carries the ships upwards or downwards to pass the dam.

A special safety mechanism, or a brake pad, is fixed. Four short screw sections connected to the ship chamber work as rotary locking rods.

They rotary locking rods work continuously in an internal thread, or a nut post, that is fixed to the towers. If an accident occurs, this rotation is blocked and traction is achieved that supports the ship chamber independently.

The elevator will cut journey times for passenger, cruise and small cargo ships passing through the dam from over three hours to about 40 minutes.

Larger vessels still have to pass the dam by means of a two-lane, five-chamber lock chain like climbing stairs. "Large vessels walk the stairs, small ones take the elevator" to pass the Three Gorges Dam for some time to come.

The elevator marks the completion of the Three Gorges Dam project on the Yangtze River, which aims at producing electricity, increasing the Yangtze River's shipping capacity and reducing the potential for floods downstream by providing flood storage space.