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US transportation agencies ban passenger aircraft from transporting lithium-ion batteries in cargo

01 Mar

The U.S. Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration have announced a new Interim Final Rule banning the transportation of lithium-ion batteries in passenger aircraft cargo. As well, the new rule requires lithium-ion batteries transported on cargo planes to have no more than a 30% charge.

The new rules were revealed by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao on Wednesday. The regulation is intended to help protect passenger and cargo aircraft from potentially catastrophic fires that may result from faulty lithium-ion batteries, which are prone to catching on fire and exploding when they overheat. Below is an older video shared by the FAA showcasing what can happen when a lithium-ion battery fault.

Travelers flying in passenger aircraft retain the option of packing lithium-ion batteries in their carry-on luggage. This includes devices with non-removable batteries, such as phones and laptops, as well as standalone batteries, including power banks and spare cameras batteries.

The Interim Final Rule follows the FAA’s 2017 proposal for a global ban on lithium-ion batteries in checked airline luggage. The recommendation was made based on tests conducted by the FAA, which found that fires caused by lithium-ion batteries in a plane’s cargo hold could potentially result in ‘the loss of an aircraft.’

The full Interim Final Rule can be read here [PDF].

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Wood Could: 12 Unlikely Timber-Based Transportation Designs

26 Apr

[ By Steph in Technology & Vehicles & Mods. ]

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Why stop at slapping a couple of ‘70s-style faux wood panels on the sides of your ride when you could be driving a car or motorcycle that’s made entirely from wood? Though it’s an unlikely material for this purpose, these 12 modes of transportation are made primarily from trees, including a Vespa, a three-seater bike, a floating Ferrari and a race car.

Toyota Setsuna Concept Vehicle
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Nearly every part of the Setsuna Roadster unveiled by Toyota at Milan Design Week 2016 is made of wood, with different varieties selected for different practical applications. 86 handmade panels of Japanese cedar make up the body, while birch was selected for the chassis and smooth castor aralia for the seats. Traditional Japanese joinery techniques like ‘okuriari’ and ‘kusabi’ are put to work so the pieces fit together without nails or screws.

“When we created the sestina, we envisaged a family pouring its love into it over generations so that the car gains an irreplaceable value. Continuous development is possible in the form of bonds between the car and the family, like the growth rings of a tree. To proceed with the development of a car utilizing the appeal of wood, we directly spoke with experts with wide-ranging knowledge, including carpenters specializing in temple and shine construction and ship’s carpenters.”

Three-Seater Wooden Motorcycle
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A Hungarian carpenter made this three-seater custom motorcycle entirely from pine, with handlebars made from the horns of Hungarian grey cattle. It’s fully functional and built around a ZIL 200cc engine and took six months to build. Despite the level of craftsmanship put into this rig, it’s built more for looks and reliability than for speed, topping out at 12 miles per hour.

Homemade Floating Wooden Ferrari
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Made completely out of pine, this replica of a Ferrari F50 is actually a boat. Artist Livio de Marchi wanted a Ferrari to call his own, but needed something more practical to get him around the canals of his home city of Venice, Italy – so this was his compromise. Completed in 2001, it’s been owned by Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! since 2009.

Half & Half Wood Car
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Half retro convertible, half modern Cadillac, this bizarre wooden car made by Ukrainian Vasily Lazarenko is built on a chassis and engine from a 1981 Opel model with a 100 HP engine. It’s not registered, but seems like it would be street legal. The custom creation went up for sale on eBay in 2012 for $ 120,000, though it’s unclear whether anyone ever bought it.

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Weekly Photography Challenge – Modes of Transportation

05 Mar
Rishi Bandopadhay

By Rishi Bandopadhay

We humans have many ways of getting ourselves from point A to point B, methods of transportation, or vehicles, such as:

  • Planes
  • Trains
  • Car/automobiles
  • Bus
  • Bicycle
  • Motorcycle
  • Boat
  • Scooter
  • Sailboat
  • Cruise ship
  • Skateboard
  • Rollerblades
  • Etc. and the list can go on and on . . .
Joan Campderrós-i-Canas

By Joan Campderrós-i-Canas

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By sese_87

Weekly Photography Challenge – Modes of Transportation

That leaves it pretty wide opened for you this week. You could shoot traffic on a busy street, try some panning, freeze or stop the motion by choosing the appropriate shutter speed, take a bus or train and shoot from inside, just for a few ideas.

Ben Salter

By Ben Salter

Harald Kobler

By Harald Kobler

Bob Jagendorf

By Bob Jagendorf

Joiseyshowaa

By joiseyshowaa

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Simply upload your shot into the comment field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section) and they’ll get embedded for us all to see or if you’d prefer upload them to your favourite photo sharing site and leave the link to them. Show me your best images in this week’s challenge. Sometimes it takes a while for an image to appear so be patient and try not to post the same image twice.

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Modes of Transportation – 28 Images of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

04 Mar

We photographers tend to have a fascination with a few different subjects including old cars and bicycles.

But what other modes of transport are there that we love to shoot? How many can you see here, and how have these photographers captured their essence, done them justice?

These first few images are mine:

Darlene Hildebrandt

By Darlene Hildebrandt

Darlene Hildebrandt

By Darlene Hildebrandt

Darlene Hildebrandt

By Darlene Hildebrandt

Darlene Hildebrandt

By Darlene Hildebrandt

Darlene Hildebrandt

By Darlene Hildebrandt

Darlene Hildebrandt

By Darlene Hildebrandt

These are by other photographers:

Giovanni Orlando

By Giovanni Orlando

Howard Ignatius

By Howard Ignatius

Brent Pearson

By Brent Pearson

Timothy Neesam

By Timothy Neesam

Staffan Scherz

By Staffan Scherz

Garrett

By Garrett

Jimmy Brown

By jimmy brown

Peter Miller

By Peter Miller

Gerry Balding

By Gerry Balding

Patrick Franzis

By Patrick Franzis

Justin

By Justin

Konstantinos B

By Konstantinos B

Amanda Tipton

By amanda tipton

Davide D'Amico

By Davide D’Amico

Patrick Franzis

By Patrick Franzis

Jimmy Brown

By jimmy brown

Michael Kooiman

By michael kooiman

Ryan Desiderio

By Ryan Desiderio

WickedVT

By WickedVT

Madhan R

By madhan r

Kev Haworth Photography

By Kev Haworth Photography

Dennis Jarvis

By Dennis Jarvis

Caden Crawford

By Caden Crawford

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Transportation planner creates beautiful visualizations of flight patterns

30 May

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Michael Markieta, a transportation planner at global engineering and design firm Arup, has created a series of beautiful visualizations of aircraft flight paths as they span the globe. Using different shades for short and long-distant flights, the images map the world in a ghostly spiderweb of connections from airports small and large. Markieta has marked more than 58,000 flightpaths and the results are stunning. Click through for images (via BBC.co.uk)

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