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May 24, 2019 AviationB.F. Goodrich Mark IV, Bendix Trophy Race, Bobbie R. Young, F-4A-4-MC, Floyd, Floyd Bennett Field, McDonnell F4H-1F Phantom II, Ontario International Airport, Richard Francis Gordon Jr.Bryan Swopes
Lieutenants Gordon and Young. (U.S. Navy)
24 May 1961: Lieutenant Richard Francis Gordon, Jr., United States Navy, with Radar Intercept Officer Lieutenant (j.g.) Bobbie R. Young, flew from Ontario International Airport, east of Los Angeles, California, to Floyd Bennett Field, New York, with their McDonnell F4H-1F Phantom II, Bu. No. 148270. The duration of their flight was 2 hours, 47 minutes, 0.01 seconds, for an average speed of 1,399.66 kilometers per hour ( miles per hour). For their accomplishment, they won the Bendix Trophy.
The Associated Press reported:
NAVY PLANE SETS NEW U.S. SPEED MARK
Jet Crosses Country in Two Hours And 48 Minutes
New York, May 24 (AP)—A Navy jet fighter plane flashed from coast to coast today in two hours 48 minutes, to eclipse a record that had stood since 1957.
Said Lt. Richard F. Gordon, 31, of Seattle, who piloted the fastest plane across the nation at an average speed of 871.38 m.p.h.:
"It was a wonderful trip. The weather was fine all along the route. I feel great, but I'm real tired."
As the three F4H-1 Phantoms zoomed down from 50,000 feet for a landing at Floyd Bennet Field [sic], shock waves exploded ahead of them with a thunder-like clap that startled metropolitan residents on the ground below.
Five Phantoms Start
The transcontinental flight from Ontario at 7.59 A.M. (P.D.T.) on the 2,445.9 mile hop to New York in the twentieth renewal of the Bendix Trophy races. Tanker planes waited to refuel them over Albuquerque (N.M.), St. Louis, and between Detroit and Pittsburgh.
Douglas A3D-2 Skywarrior Bu. No. 142650, Heavy Attack Squadron NINE (VAH-9), refuels McDonnell F4H-1F Phantom II Bu. No. 148261 of VF-101 Detachment A during the 1961 Bendix Trophy Race. (NMNA # 1996.253.3678)
One of the five planes encountered trouble over Albuquerque and dropped out of the race. A second was held up by refueling problems over Albuquerque and St. Louis and straggled into Floyd Bennet and [sic] hour and twenty minutes behind the pacesetters.
Sharing the Bendix Trophy with Lieutenant was his radio-intercept officer, Lt. (J.G.) Bobbie R. Young, 34, of Modesto, Cal. Their average speed was the highest ever in the trophy races, that began in 1931 with James H. Doolittle setting an average mark of 223 m.p.h. between Los Angeles and Cleveland.
Time Certified
Lieutenants Gordon and Young with the Bendix Trophy. Both Naval Aviators are wearing B.F. Goodrich Mark IV full-pressure suits for protection at high altitude.
The two other craft that accompanied Lieutenant Gordon's finished in the unofficial time of 2 hours and 57 minutes, and 3 hours and 3 minutes. Lieutenant Gordon's time was certified as official by the Navy, subject to approval of international aviation authorities.
Rear Admiral Frank A Brandley, assistant chief of naval operations for air, greeting the fliers here, pointed out that had Gordon flown in the opposite direction, he would have landed in California earlier than he took off from New York—because of the time differential.
The supersonic Phantoms are carrier-based Navy fighter planes built by McDonnell Aircraft, of St. Louis.
The Bendix races were organized to test pilot training, equipment and technical skills of American aviation. The last previous race was held in 1957, between Chicago and Washington. The 1957 record was not set in a Bendix race.
—The Sun, Vol. 249, No. 8, Baltimore, Thursday, 25 May 1961, Page 9, Column 1
The following is the U.S. Navy's official biography of Richard Gordon:
Department of the Navy
Office of Information
CAPTAIN RICHARD F. GORDON, JR., UNITED STATES NAVY
Richard Francis Gordon, Jr., was born in Seattle, Washington, on October 5, 1929, son of Richard F. and Angela Frances (Sullivan) Gordon. He attended North Kitsap High School, Poulsbo, Washington, and the University of Washington at Seattle, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Science in Chemistry in 1951. He enlisted in the U. S. Naval Reserve, served as an Airman at the Naval Air Station, Sand Point, Washington. Appointed Aviation Cadet in August 1951, he had flight training at the Naval Air Basic Training Command, Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, and at the Naval Air Advanced Training Command, Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas. Designated Naval Aviator and commissioned Ensign, U. S. Naval Reserve, on March 25, 1953, he subsequently advanced in rank to that of Captain, to date from December 11, 1969, having transferred to the Regular Navy on August 3, 1955.
After receiving his "Wings" in March 1953, he had instruction for two months at the naval School, All Weather Flight, Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, and for one month at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Kingsville, Texas. In June of that year he joined Fighter Squadron ELEVEN to serve as Navigation Officer, Communications Officer and Naval Aviator until January 1957, when he reported for instruction at the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Maryland. In August that year, he transferred to the Flight Test Division, Naval Air Test Center, where he had duty as a Project Pilot, Project Officer, and First Lieutenant until March 1960.
He next joined Fighter Squadron ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE, where served as Fleet Replacement Pilot, Fleet Air Detachment Duty Officer, and Flight Instructor. In November 1961, he was assigned for a month to Fighter Squadron ONE HUNDRED FORTY-TWO as Operations Officer, then transferred to Fighter Squadron NINETY-SIX, for duty as Naval Aviator, Naval Aviation Training Operations Officer and Assistant Operations Officer. While in that assignment he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for "…extraordinary achievement in aerial flight on May 24, 1961, while participating in the Bendix Trophy Race as Pilot of an F4H Phantom Aircraft…" The citation continues…
"…Exercising outstanding airmanship and resourcefulness, (he) succeeded in winning the Bendix Trophy Race and in establishing a new transcontinental speed record for the jet aircraft from Los Angeles, California to New York, New York, with an elapsed time of two hours and forty-seven minutes, which is twenty-one minutes under the previous record time for this event…"
From July to December 1963 he had instruction at the U. S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. Selected as one of the third group of astronauts by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, in October 1963, he began training at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, in December 1963. He has served as backup pilot for the Gemini VII flight.
On September 12, 1966, he served as pilot for the 44 orbit Gemini XI mission. He executed docking maneuvers with the previously launched Agena and performed two periods of extravehicular activity which involved attaching a tether to the Agena and retrieving a nuclear emulsion experiment package. Other highlights of the flight included the successful completion of the first tethered station-keeping exercise, establishment of a new record-setting altitude of 850 miles, and the first closed-loop controlled reentry. The flight was concluded on September 15, 1966, with the spacecraft landing in the Atlantic, two and one-half miles from the prime recovery ship USS Guam (LPH-9). He was awarded a Gold Star in lieu of the Second Distinguished Flying Cross with the following citation:
"For heroism and extraordinary achievement…as an Astronaut with NASA from September 12 to 15, 1966 aboard Gemini XI. While serving as Pilot, Commander (then Lieutenant Commander) Gordon completed a space flight of seventy-one hours and sixteen minutes. A rendezvous in the first revolution, docking, two periods of extravehicular activity, an exercise in the dynamics of two spacecraft linked together by a one hundred-foot strap and full-automatic reentry highlighted the Gemini XI mission. During this period, Commander Gordon carried out the re-docking maneuver, the first docking by a 'right-seater.' During the umbilical extravehicular activity, he left the spacecraft to retrieve the S-9 Nuclear Emulsion Experiment package from the Agena…"
In addition to the Distinguished Flying Cross with Gold Star, Captain Gordon has received the NASA Exceptional Service Medal and the Navy Astronaut Wings. He is also entitled to the Navy Occupation Service Medal and the National Defense Service Medal with bronze star.
He is a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots. His hobbies include water skiing, sailing and golf.
He has logged more than 3,300 hours flying time, 2,800 hours in jet aircraft.
Published: Fri Mar 04 13:52:55 EST 2016
The Bendix Trophy-winning Phantom II, redesignated F-4A-4-MC in 1962, crashed near San Clement Island, off the Pacific coast of southern California, 4 May 1964.
March 9, 2019 AviationCharles T. Hudson, Fighter Bomber, Floyd Bennett Field, Los Angeles Airport, Republic Aviation Corporation, Republic F-84F Thunderstreak, Robert C. Ruby, Robert Ray Scott, Speed Record, Transcontinental FlightBryan Swopes
Col. Robert R. Scott waves from the cockpit of his Republic F-84F Thunderstreak after completing a record-breaking transcontinental flight, 9 March 1955. (AP Photo)
Lieutenant Richard Hill and Lieutenant Colonel Robert R. Scott (in cockpit) after their record-breaking transcontinental flight. (Unattributed)
9 October 1955: Lieutenant Colonel Robert Ray Scott, United States Air Force, commanding officer, 510th Fighter Bomber Squadron, 405th Fighter Bomber Wing, Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, with Major Robert C. Ruby and Captain Charles T. Hudson, flew their Republic F-84F Thunderstreaks non-stop from Los Angeles Airport (LAX), on the southern California coastline, to overhead Floyd Bennett Field, New York. Two in-flight refuelings from Boeing KB-29 tankers were required.
Colonel Scott's flight set a new National Aeronautic Association speed record with an elapsed time of 3 hours, 44 minutes, 53.88 seconds.
A newspaper article from the following day describes the event:
2 Des Moines Pilots Break Speed Record
NEW YORK (AP) — Two air force pilots from Des Moines broke the speed record from Los Angeles to New York Wednesday, making a nonstop flight in less than four hours.
Lt. Col. Robert R. Scott, 34, flying a Republic F-84F Thunderstreak jet fighter, turned in the fastest time — 3 hours 46 minutes and 33 seconds. He averaged 649 miles an hour.
Just one minute behind was another Des Moines pilot, Maj. Robert C. Ruby, 32. His time was 3:47:33.
The old mark for the 2,445-mile route was 4:06:16, set Jan 2, 1954, by an air national guard pilot.
Refueling Slow
The pilots said they could have made faster time except for slow and obsolete in-flight refueling tanker planes.
A third pilot who shattered the old mark is Capt. Charles T. Hudson, 33, of Gulfport, Miss., who made the flight in 3:49:53.
Eight air force Thunderstreaks left Los Angeles in a mass assault on the record. Five dropped out through failure to make contact with refueling planes or other reasons. All reportedly landed safely.
While setting a Los Angeles–New York record, Scott failed to beat the navy's time from San Diego, Calif., to New York — 2,438 miles, or seven miles shorter than Wednesday's flight.
Flew Cougar Jet
Lt. Comdr. Francis X. Brady, 33, of Virginia Beach, Va., flew from San Diego in 3:45:30 on April 1, 1954, flying a Grumman F9F Cougar.
The air force planes flew at about 40,000 feet.
"The tankers used for refueling are much too obsolete and too old," Scott commented on landing.
The jets had to slow to 200 m.p.h. from almost 650 to take on fuel.
Scott said he refueled twice — once near La Junta, Colo., and once near Rantoul, Ill.
Others Agree
Ruby and Hudson also said they could have made faster time if the tank planes were more modern.
Hudson and Ruby carried extra gas tanks and made one in-flight refueling each. Scott carried no extra gas and had two in-flight refuelings.
1st Lt. James E. Colson of Middleboro, Ky., tried to make it with no refueling. He got as far as Pittsburgh, Pa.
Of the other four unable to complete the flight, one dropped out in California, two in Kansas and one at Sedalia, Mo.
— The Daily Iowan, Thursday, March 10, 1955, Page 1, Column 1
Cockpit of Republic F-84F-10-RE Thunderstreak 51-1405. (U.S. Air Force)
Lieutenant Colonel Robert R. Scott, U.S. Air Force, 5 March 1955. (U.S. Air Force photograph)
Robert Ray Scott was born at Des Moines, Iowa, 1 November 1920. He was the first of two children of Ray Scott, a railroad worker, and Elva M. Scott. He graduated from North High School in Des Moines, January 1939. He studied aeronautical engineering at the University of Iowa for two years before he enlisted as an Aviation Cadet in the U.S. Army Air Corps, 15 August 1941. Scott was 5 feet, 7 inches (1.70 meters) tall and weighed 144 pounds (65.3 kilograms). He was trained as a pilot and and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 16 March 1942. He was assigned as an instructor pilot in California, and was promoted to 1st Lieutenant 15 December 1942.
Scott was transferred to the 426th Night Fighter Squadron, 14th Air Force, flying the Northrop P-61 Black Widow in India and China. He was promoted to captain, 3 May 1944, and to major, 16 August 1945. Major Scott was credited with shooting down two enemy aircraft. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal.
Captain Robert Ray Scott (back row, second from left) with the 426th Night Fighter Squadron, 14th Air Force, Chengdu, China 1944. The airplane is a Northrop P-61 Black Widow. (U.S. Air Force)
Following World War II, Major Scott returned to the University of Iowa to complete his bachelor's degree. He also earned two master's degrees.
In 1952 he graduated from the Air Force test pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base, then served as a project pilot on the North American F-86D all-weather interceptor. Later he was a project officer at Edwards AFB on the Republic F-105 Thunderchief Mach 2 fighter-bomber.
Scott flew the North American Aviation F-86F Sabre during the Korean War. From January to July 1953, he flew 117 combat missions. From 1953 to 1956, Lieutenant Colonel Scott commanded the 405th Fighter Bomber Wing, Tactical Air Command, at Langley Air force base, Virginia.
Scott was promoted to the rank of Colonel in 1960.
Colonel Robert R. Scott, commander, 355th Tactical Fighter Wing, checks the bombs loaded on a multiple ejector rack while preflighting his Republic F-105 Thunderchief. (U.S. Air Force)
During the Vietnam War, Colonel Scott commanded the 355th Tactical Fighter Wing, flying 134 combat missions in the Republic F-105 Thunderchief. On 26 March 1967 he shot down an enemy MiG-17 fighter near Hanoi with the 20 mm M61 Vulcan cannon of his F-105D-6-RE, 59-1772, making him only the second Air Force pilot with air combat victories in both World War II and Vietnam.
Colonel Scott's final command was the 832nd Air Division, 12th Air Force, at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico. He retired 1 September 1970 after 29 years of military service.
Colonel Robert Ray Scott flew 305 combat missions in three wars.During his Air Force career, Colonel Scott was awarded four Silver Star medals, three Legion of Merit medals, six Distinguished Flying Crosses and 16 Air Medals. He died at Tehachapi, California, 3 October 2006 at the age of 86 years. He is buried at the Arlington National Cemetery.
Republic F-84F-1-RE Thunderstreak 51-1346. (U.S. Air Force)
The Republic F-84F Thunderstreak was an improved, swept-wing version of the straight-wing F-84 Thunderjet fighter bomber. The first production Thunderstreak, 51-1346, flew for the first time, 22 May 1952, with company test pilot Russell M. (Rusty") Roth in the cockpit.
The F-84F was 43 feet, 4¾ inches (13.227 meters) long with a wingspan of 33 feet, 7¼ inches (10.243 meters) and overall height of 14 feet, 4¾ inches (4.388 meters). The wings were swept aft 40° at 25% chord. Their angle of incidence was 1° 30′ and there was no twist. The F-84F had 3° 30′ anhedral. The Thunderstreak had an empty weight if 13,645 pounds (6,189 kilograms) and maximum takeoff weight of 27,000 pounds (12,247 kilograms).
The initial F-84F-1-RE aircraft were powered by a Wright J65-W-1 turbojet, a license-built variant of the British Armstrong Siddely Sapphire. Later versions used Wright J65-W-3 and J65-W-7, or Buick J65-B-3 or J65-B-7 engines. The J65-B-3 was a single-shaft axial-flow turbojet with a 13-stage compressor section and 2-stage turbine. The W-3/B-3 had a continuous power rating of 6,350 pounds of thrust (28.25 kilonewtons) at 8,000 r.p.m. It produced 7,220 pounds of thrust (32.12 kilonewtons) at 8,300 r.p.m. (5-minute limit). The J65-B-3 was 10 feet, 8.6 inches (3.266 meters) long, 3 feet, 1.7 inches (0.958 meters) in diameter, and weighed 2,785 pounds (1,263 kilograms).
Republic F-84F-1-RE Thunderstreak 51-1346, the first production airplane, at Farmingdale, New York, 1952. (Republic Aviation Corporation)
The F-84F had a maximum speed of 595 knots (685 miles per hour/1,102 kilometers per hour) at Sea Level (0.900 Mach). The fighter bomber could climb at 7,000 feet per minute (36 meters per second). Its service ceiling was 44,450 feet (13,548 meters). The fighter bomber's maximum ferry range was 2,010 nautical miles (2,313 statute miles/3,723 kilometers).
Armament consisted of six Browning .50-caliber (12.7 × 99 NATO) AN-M3 aircraft machine guns, with two mounted in the wing roots and four in the nose. The were 300 rounds of ammunition per gun. Up to 6,000 pounds (2,722 kilograms) of bombs and rockets could be carried under the wings. A variable-yield Mark 7 tactical nuclear weapon could also be carried.
Between 1952 and 1957, 2,112 F-84F Thunderstreaks were built by Republic at Farmingdale, New York, and by General Motors at Kansas City, Kansas. The Thunderstreak served with the United States Air Force and Air National Guard until 1971.
Republic F-84F-5-RE Thunderstreak 51-1366. (Republic Aviation Corporation)
First Lieutenant Richard Bach, U.S. Air Force, in the cockpit of a Republic F-84F-35-RE Thunderstreak, 52-6490, at Chaumont Air Base, France, 1962. Richard Bach is the author of the classic aviation novel, "Stranger to the Ground." (Jet Pilot Overseas)
14–15 January 1935
January 15, 2019 AviationAir Development Corporation, American Airlines, Capitan Haya, FAI, Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, Floyd Bennett Field, Gerard Freebairn Vultee, James Harold Doolittle, Lady Peace, s/n 24073, Shell Oil Company, Union Air Terminal, Vultee V-1A, World Record for Speed Over a Recognized Course, Wright Aeronautical Division Cyclone 9 R-1820-F2Bryan Swopes
Jimmy Doolittle in the cockpit of American Airlines' Vultee V-1A Special NC13770, January 1935. (NASM)
14–15 January 1935: James Harold Doolittle set a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Record for Speed Over a Recognised Course of 329.98 kilometers per hour (205.04 miles per hour).¹
Doolittle took off from Union Air Terminal, Burbank, California, at 5:27 p.m., Pacific Standard Time, 14 January (8:27 p.m., Eastern Standard Time). Also on board were Mrs. Doolittle and Robert Adamson (1871–1935), an executive with the Shell Oil Company.
Robert Adomson, Mrs. Doolittle and James H. Doolittle ready to board the Vutee V-1A at Union Air Terminal, Burbank, California, 14 January 1935. (Getty Images/Bettman)
The airplane was an Airplane Development Corporation V-1A Special, NC13770, owned by American Airlines and leased to Shell.
Doolittle crossed overhead Floyd Bennett Field at 8:26 a.m., Eastern Standard Time, 15 January. He then landed at Newark Airport, New Jersey, at 8:34½ a.m. The flight from Burbank to Brooklyn had a duration of 11 hours, 59 minutes, and broke a record set two months earlier by Eddie Rickenbacker.
Vultee V-1A Special NC13770 at Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale, California. (NASM)
The Airplane Development Corporation Model V-1A (commonly known as the "Vultee V-1A") was a large, all-metal, single-engine, low-wing monoplane with retractable landing gear. The V-1A was designed as a high-speed airliner and was of full monocoque construction. It could be flown by one or two pilots and carry up to eight passengers.
The V-1A was designed by Gerard Freebairn Vultee and Richard Palmer,² based on an earlier design by Vultee and Vance Breese, who were working for the Airplane Development Corporation, which they had founded in 1932, but which had been acquired by the Cord Corporation. The prototype made its first flight 19 February 1933 with test pilot Marshall Headle at the controls.
NC13770, serial number 24073, was the eighth V-1A built, and was one of the original ten ordered by American Airlines. The V-1A was 37 feet, 0 inches (11.278 meters) long with a wingspan of 50 feet, 0 inches (15.240 meters) and height of 10 feet, 2 inches (3.099 meters). The wings had root chord of 11 feet, 3 inches (3.429 meters) and tip chord of 5 feet, 0 inches (1.524 meters). Total wing area was 384.0 square feet (35.675 square meters). There was 3° dihedral. The V-1A had an empty weight of 5,212 pounds (2,364 kilograms) and gross weight of 8,500 pounds (3,856 kilograms).
The Vultee V-1A was powered by an air-cooled, supercharged, 1,823.129 cubic-inch displacement (29.785 liter) Wright Aeronautical Division Cyclone 9 R-1820-F2 (R-1820-20 or R-1820-102), a nine-cylinder radial engine with a compression ratio of 6.4:1. This was a direct-drive engine with a Normal Power rating of 691 horsepower at 1,950 r.p.m., at Sea Level. It required 87-octane gasoline. The engine turned a three-blade propeller with a diameter of 10 feet, 0 inches (3.048 meters). The R-1820-F2 was 3 feet, 7-3/8 inches (1.102 meters) long, 4 feet, 5-3/4 inches (1.365 meters) in diameter, and weighed 937 pounds (425 kilograms).
The V-1A had a cruise speed of 215 miles per hour (346 kilometers per hour) and maximum speed of 235 miles per hour (378 kilometers per hour). The airplane's service ceiling was 23,000 feet (7,010 meters). In standard configuration, it had a range of 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers).
Vultee V-1A Special NR13770 taking off from Glendale, California, 17 August 1936. (Wide World Photos)
NC13770 was later sold to Harry Richman of Miami Beach, Florida, who christened the airplane Lady Peace. During the Spanish Civil War, the airplane was captured by the Nationalists. It was used as a transport for the Aviación Nacional Grupo 43, identified as 43-14, and named Capitán Haya. Its U.S. registration was cancelled 8 October 1937. It is believed that the airplane was scrapped in the early 1950s.
Vultee V-1A s/n 24703 (ex-NC13770), Lady Peace, was captured by the Nationalists and assigned the identification number 43-14. (AERONETGCE via Pedro Luz Cunha)
Vultee V-1A s/n 24703 (ex-NC13770) 43-14 in mottled camouflaged. (AERONETGCE via Pedro Luz Cunha)
² Richard Palmer was the designer of Howard Hughes' record setting H-1.
September 1, 2018 AviationAlexander Nikolaievich Prokofiev de Seversky, Alexander P. de Seversky, Bendix Trophy Race, c/n 145, Floyd Bennett Field, Jackie Cochran, Jacqueline Cochran, NX1384, Pratt & Whitney R-1830-11, Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp S1B3-G, Seversky Aircraft Corporation, Seversky AP-7, Vincent Bendix, Vincent Bendix TrophyBryan Swopes
Seversky AP-7 NX1384, seen from below. In this configuration, the landing gear folds rearward. (San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives)
1 September 1938: Jackie Cochran departed the Union Air Terminal, Burbank, California, at 3:00 a.m., flying her Seversky AP-7, NX1384, c/n 145. Her destination was Cleveland, Ohio, the finish line for the Bendix Trophy Race, 2,042 miles (3,286 kilometers) away.
"Major Alexander de Seversky poses with Jacqueline Cochran beside the Seversky in which she flew from Burbank, Cal., to Cleveland in 8 hrs. and 10 min. to win the Bendix Trophy." (Contemporary newspaper photograph)
NX1384 was built by the Seversky Aircraft Corporation of Farmingdale, Long Island, New York, especially for Jackie Cochran. It had been flown from the factory to Burbank by Major de Seversky just two days earlier. His flight set an East-to-West Transcontinental Speed Record of 10 hours, 2 minutes, 55.7 seconds.
Seversky AP-7 NX1384 (c/n 145). (San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives)
The AP-7 racer was an improved version of Major Alexander Nikolaievich Prokofiev de Seversky's P-35A fighter, which was the U.S. Army Air Corps' first all-metal single-engine airplane with an enclosed cockpit and retractable landing gear.
Cochran's AP-7 was powered by an air-cooled, supercharged, 1,829.39-cubic-inch-displacement (29.978 liter) Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp S1B3-G (R-1830-11) two-row 14-cylinder radial engine rated at 850 horsepower at 2,450 r.p.m. at 5,000 feet (1,524 meters), and 1,000 horsepower at 2,600 r.p.m. for take off. The engine turned a three-bladed Hamilton-Standard controllable-pitch propeller through a 3:2 gear reduction. The R-1830-11 was 4 feet, 8.66 inches (1.439 meters) long with a diameter of 4 feet, 0.00 inches (1.219 meters), and weighed 1,320 pounds (599 kilograms).
Seversky AP-7 NX1384, c/n 145. (San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives)
"Finally the P-35 arrived. I decided that I didn't want to take it into the air for a test even if I could. The racing officials impounded it because it was a prototype and there was some kind of rule about untested planes. I would test it en route. . . Finally, I got to sit in the cockpit. I began to study all the instruments by the hour. I can almost see them still.
Jackie Cochran paints her race number, 13, of the fuselage of her Seversky AP-7 at the Union Air Terminal, Burbank, California. The airplane's passenger compartment hatch and window is behind Ms. Cochran. (San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives)
"There are about a hundred or more buttons, levers, and other gadgets to push, pull or twirl. . . I close my eyes and reach for everything in the dark. And I keep at this until I can get to them blindfolded and with no false moves. . .
"I finally see Cleveland. . . (a)nd am going so fast that I pass the airport and come in from the wrong side. . . Have I won? The crowds are cheering. It's a standing ovation. . . I have won the Bendix."
— Jackie Cochran: An Autobiography, by Jacqueline Cochran and Maryann Bucknum Brinley, Bantam Books, New York 1987, Pages 160–165.
"I often wonder what is meant exactly by a considered risk. . . In my case I never could ponder over the risks too much because I had to take a fast plane whenever it became available to me and make the best of it. I won the 1938 Bendix Race in a Seversky pursuit plane which I had never flown until that night, when, with a heavy overload of gas, I took off in the race. The plane was delivered from the factory to me just two days before the race and under the rules it had to be immediately impounded. It was a prototype that had not yest been tested. I tested it en route during the race. Its feature was that it had wings that were in effect integrated tanks so that most of the wings could be filled with fuel, thus adding range. It developed in flight that the fuel from the right wing would not properly feed the engine. By force on the stick I had to hold that wing much higher than the other from time to time in order to drain the fuel from that right wing into the left wing and from the left wing into the engine. When I got the plane back to the factory after the race a large wad of wrapping paper was discovered near the outlet of the right-wing tank. No wonder the drainage had been bad. How, for example, could that risk be properly considered i advance? The paper in the tank could have been sabotage. Some thought so at the time. More likely it was paper pasted on the inside of the wing during manufacture which had not been removed and which worked loose from the action of the gasoline and the vibration of the plane."
—The Stars at Noon, by Jacqueline Cochran. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1954, at Pages 65–66
Jackie Cochran was the third pilot to leave Burbank, but the first to arrive at Cleveland. Her elapsed time for the flight from California to Ohio was 8 hours, 10 minutes, 31.4 seconds, for an average speed of 249.774 miles per hour (401.895 kilometers per hour). For her first place finish, Ms. Cochran won a prize of $12,500.
Vincent Bendix congratulates Jackie Cochran on her winning of the Bendix Trophy Race, 1 September 1938. (NASM)
After being congratulated on her win by Vincent Bendix and other race officials, Cochran had her Seversky monoplane refueled. She then got back in to its cockpit and took off for Floyd Bennett Field, new York. She landed there 10 hours, 12 minutes, 55 seconds after leaving Burbank. This was a new West-to East Transcontinental Speed Record.
Jackie Cochran's Vincent Bendix Trophy in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum. (NASM)
August 11, 2018 AviationBayerische Motorenwerke AG, BMW 132L, Commercial Transport, D-ACON, Deutsche Lufthansa A.G., FAI, Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, Floyd Bennett Field, Flughafen Berlin-Templehof, Flugplatz Berlin-Staaken, Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG, Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor, Focke-Wulf Fw 200 S-1, Focke-Wulf Fw 200 V1, G. Khone, Hà Nội, Hauptmann Rudolf Freiherr von Moreau, Kapitän Alfred Henke, Kurt Waldemar Tank, Paul Dierberg, Pratt & Whitney Hornet S1E-G, Walter Kober, Werk-Nr. 2000, World Record for Speed Over CoursesBryan Swopes
The Focke-Wulf Fw 200 S-1 Condor, D-ACON, arrives at Floyd Bennett Field, New York, 11 August 1938. (Klassiker fer Luftfahrt)
10–11 August 1938: The first non-stop flight between Berlin and New York by a heavier-than-air aircraft was flown by a prototype four-engine airliner. Under the command of Deutsche Luft Hansa Kapitän Alfred Henke, Brandenburg, a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 S-1 Condor, D-ACON, departed Flugplatz Berlin-Staaken, 6 kilometers west of Spandau, at about 7:30 p.m., on Wednesday, 10 August 1938.
The other members of the crew were Hauptmann Rudolf Freiherr von Moreau, of the Luftwaffe, co-pilot; Paul Dierberg, flight engineer; and Walter Kober, radio operator. There were no passengers on board.
Brandenburg flew a Great Circle course across the North Atlantic Ocean and landed at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, New York at 1:50 p.m., local time, Thursday, 11 August. The distance flown was 6371.302 kilometers (3,958.944 miles). The total duration of the flight was 24 hours, 56 minutes, 12 seconds. The Condor averaged 255.499 kilometers per hour (158.760 miles per hour).
Focke-Wulf Fw 200 S-1 Condor D-ACON at Floyd Bennett Field, New York, 11 August 1938. (Deutsche Lufthansa AG)
Although they encountered severe weather, the flight was relatively uneventful. Upon landing, it was discovered that the prototype airliner had suffered some damage to an engine cowling and that one engine lubricating oil tube had cracked, causing a leak.
Focke-Wulf Fw 200S-1 Kondor (Condor) D-ACON on the ground in front of Hangar 4 at Floyd Bennett Field, Long Island, New York. (Rudy Arnold Collection/National Air and Space Museum)
The problems were repaired while Hauptman von Moreau made an unexplained trip to Washington, D.C. Brandenburg was ready for a return flight to Germany the following day.
Manifest for Focke-Wulf Fw 200 S-1 Condor D-ACON.
Taking off from Floyd Bennett Field before 9:30 a.m., on Saturday, 13 August, Brandenburg was flown to Flughafen Berlin-Templehof. With more favorable winds on the eastbound flight, the 6,392 kilometer distance (3,972 miles) was covered in 19 hours, 56 minutes, with an average speed of 321 kilometers per hour (199 miles per hour).
14. August 1938. Deutschlands Ozeanflieger nach Ihrem Rekordflug Berlin-New York-Berlin auf dem Flughafen Tempelhof. V.l.: Kober, Dierberg, Henke und von Moreau. Foto: Deutsche Lufthansa AG 14.08.1938 DLHD5054-1-35
Following their return to Germany, Captain Henke (who was also an Oberleutnant in the Luftwaffe) and Hauptman von Moreau were congratulated by Adolph Hitler. In photographs, Henke is easily identifiable by the prominent "dueling scar" on the left side of his face.
Kurt Waldemar Tank, March 1941. (Bundesarchiv)
D-ACON was the prototype Condor, designated Fw 200 V1, Werk-Nr. 2000. It had first flown at Neulander Feld, site of the Focke-Wulf plant in Bremen, 27 July 1937. The test pilot was Kurt Waldemar Tank, an aeronautical engineer and the airplane's designer.
Tank had proposed the airplane to Deutsche Luft Hansa as a long-range commercial transport for routes from Europe to South America. While British and American airlines were using large four-engine flying boats for transoceanic flight, their heavy weight and aerodynamic drag reduced the practical passenger and cargo loadings. A lighter-weight, streamlined land plane would be faster and could carry more passengers, increasing its desirability and practicality. Also, while the flying boats had to make an emergency water landing if one engine failed during the flight, the Focke-Wulf Condor was designed to be able to remain airborne with just two engines.
Prototype Focke-Wulf Fw 200 V1 Condor, Werk-Nr. 2000, D-ACON (Klassiker fer Luftfahrt)
The Fw 200 V1 was an all-metal low-wing monoplane powered by four engines, with retractable landing gear. It had a flight crew of four, and was designed to carry a maximum of 26 passengers. It was 78 feet, 0 inches (27.774 meters) long with a wingspan of 108 feet, 0 inches (32.918 meters) and overall height of 20 feet, 0 inches (6.096 meters). The airliner had an empty weight of 24,030 pounds (10,900 kilograms) and gross weight of 37,479 pounds (17,000 kilograms). This increased to 39,683 pounds (18,000 kilograms) after modification to the Fw 200 S-1 configuration.
As originally built, the prototype Condor was powered by four air-cooled, supercharged 1,690.537-cubic-inch-displacement (27.703 liters) Pratt & Whitney Hornet S1E-G single-row 9-cylinder radial engines with a compression ratio of 6.5:1 and gear reduction ratio of 3:2. The S1E-G was rated at 750 horsepower at 2,250 r.p.m. to 7,000 feet (2,134 meters), and 875 horsepower at 2,300 r.p.m. for takeoff. It was 4 feet, 1.38 inches (1.254 meters) in diameter, 4 feet, 6.44 inches (1.383 meters) long, and weighed 1,064 pounds (483 kilograms).
Prototype Focke-Wulf Fw 200 V1 Condor, Werk-Nr. 2000, D-ACON. (Bernhard D.F. Klein Collection/1000 Aircraft Photos)
Brandenburg's Pratt & Whitney engines were later replaced by Bayerische Motorenwerke AG BMW 132 L engines. BMW had been producing licensed variants of the Pratt & Whitney Hornet since 1933, and had incorporated their own developments during that time.
The Fw 200 V1 had a maximum speed of 233 miles per hour (375 kilometers per hour) at Sea Level. Its cruising speed was 205 miles per hour (330 kilometers per hour) at 10,000 feet (3,048 meters). The airliner's service ceiling was 20,000 feet (6,096 meters). It could maintain level flight at 13,000 feet (3,962 meters) with 3 engines, and 10,000 feet (3,048 meters) with just two engines running. Its range at cruise speed with a 7,000 pound (3,175 kilogram) payload was 775 miles (1,247 kilometers).
For the Berlin-to-New York flight, the Fw 200's fuel capacity was increased to 2,400 gallons (9,084 liters).
D-ACON made a series of long distance flights to demonstrate its potential. On 20 November 1938, Brandenburg flew from Berlin to Hanoi in French Indo-China (now, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam). The crew was the same as the Berlin-New York flight, with the addition of G. Khone. This flight set a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Record for Speed Over Courses of 243.01 kilometers per hour (151.00 miles per hour).¹
Focke-Wulf Fw 200 S-1 Condor, D-ACON. (Klassiker fer Luftfahrt)
On 6 December 1938, while on approach to Manila, capital city of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, all four of D-ACON's engines stopped. Unable to reach the airfield, the Condor was ditched in Manila Bay. All aboard were quickly rescued. The cause of the engines failing was fuel starvation. One source states that the crew had selected the wrong tanks. Another source says that a fuel line had broken. A third cites a fuel pump failure.
Focke-Wulf Condor D-ACON after ditching near Manila, 6 Dec 1938 (Bureau d'Archives des Accidents d'Avions)
The wreck of the first Condor was recovered, however, the airplane was damaged beyond repair.
Recovery of Focke-Wulf Fw 200 S-1 Condor D-ACON. (Bureau d'Archives des Accidents d'Avions)
While the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 had been designed as a civilian airliner, it soon found use as a long-range maritime patrol bomber. The Fw 200 V10 was a military variant requested by the Imperial Japanese Navy. With the outbreak of World War II, Condors were produced as both bombers and transports. They saw extensive service searching for and attacking the Allies' transatlantic convoys.
Focke-Wulf Fw 200 C-3 Condor, SG+KS, Werk-Nr. 0043. (World War Photos)
A Luftwaffe Focke-Wulf Fw 200 C-3 Condor reconnaissance bomber, SG+KS, Werk-Nr. 0043, circa 1941. (Photograph by Walter Frentz. Bundsarchiv, Bild 146-1987-043-02)


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Richemont completes acquisition of Yoox Net-A-Porter
EDITOR'S CHOICEINTERNATIONALNEWS by Rob Corder	on June 20, 2018
Shares in Yoox Net-A-Porter have been de-listed from the Milan Stock Exchange, marking the final stage of Richemont's acquisition of the company.
The deal gives Richemont full control of Yoox, Net-A-Porter and its subsidiary Mr Porter.
It has been a convoluted journey to get to this point.
British entrepreneur Natalie Massenet, who created Net-A-Porter in 2000, sold out to Richemont in 2010. Mr Porter was launched as a men's equivalent to the women's luxury fashion ecommerce site in 2013. The company added watches to its offering in 2015 and now represents 16 luxury watch brands.
Italian rival Yoox bought Net-A-Porter from Richemont in 2015, creating the Yoox Net-A-Porter group.
Richemont then bought 49% of YNAP before launching a bid in January to acquire the remaining shares.
The terms of the deal announced in January valued YNAP as a whole at 5.3 billion euros, YNAP CEO Federico Marchetti said.
Along with all of the YNAP ecommerce platforms, Richemont will also soon own Watchfinder, a specialist in buying and selling pre-owned watches online and through a small network of physical shops in the UK.
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Hope you are feeling better soon! It stinks to be sick during a holiday! You seem to be accomplishing a lot though!
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Love the stocking. Is Dunkin sitting on another one? Hope you lose that cough soon.


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At the Buzzer: Indiana 80, Illinois 65 – Inside the Hall
Quick thoughts on an 80-65 win at Illinois:
Indiana fell behind 4-0 early, prompting Mike Woodson to call for an early timeout. The Hoosiers responded by scoring the next 12 points to grab an eight-point lead at the 14:38 mark. The lead hit double figures for the first time at 18-7 on a Jordan Geronimo layup and was stretched to 14 at 26-12 on a Jalen Hood-Schifino by the 8:15 mark. The Hoosiers would go on to build a 19-point lead in the first 20 minutes, but Illinois cut the cushion to 10 by halftime. Still, it was an impressive 20 minutes for the Hoosiers as Trayce Jackson-Davis and Geronimo both scored 13 points and Hood-Schifino had 10 in 20 first-half minutes.
By the 14:51 mark of the second half, Indiana pushed the lead back to 18 on a bucket from Jackson-Davis. The Hoosiers stretched the lead to 21 on a Miller Kopp 3-pointer with 12:19 to play, but Coleman Hawkins answered just 11 seconds later with a 3-pointer of his own to make it 62-44 at the under 12 media timeout. Indiana's lead was back at 21 after a Jackson-Davis bucket made it 66-45 with 10:12 to play. Indiana turned it over three times in less than two minutes and the Illini got within 15 at 66-51 with 8:27 to play. Terrence Shannon's 3-pointer with 7:48 to play made it 66-54 Indiana. The Hoosiers stopped the 9-0 Illini spurt with a bucket by Trey Galloway with 7:17 remaining. After a missed Shannon jump shot, Galloway scored on a breakaway on the next possession to push the IU lead to 16 with 6:36 to play. Indiana was never seriously challenged the rest of the way. The win, Indiana's second on the road this season, improved the Hoosiers to 12-6 overall and 3-4 in Big Ten play.
Standout performer
Jackson-Davis was dominant, finishing with 35 points on 15-for-19 shooting. The All-American forward added nine rebounds, five assists and three blocked shots in 35 minutes.
Statistics that stand out
It wasn't as strong of an effort as the Wisconsin game, but Indiana was stout defensively in Thursday's win. The Hoosiers held the Illini to just .95 points per possession and only 38.7 percent shooting from the field.
Final IU individual statistics
Final tempo-free statistics
Assembly Call postgame show
(Photo credit: IU Athletics)
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Has there been a recent major change at home? Divorce, marriage, move, new baby? My friend had a problem with her son defecating in his clothes--and he was 7. After all the tests--normal. After visiting a psychologist a few times, found out there were issues in the household and school bothering him. New pressures were stressing him out and this was him acting out, even though it was such an embarrassing thing. Good luck.


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Thene Manasulu may refer to:
 Thene Manasulu (1965 film)
 Thene Manasulu (1987 film)

See also
Manaslu, 8th-highest mountain on Earth, located in Nepal

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History of St. John's College
St. John's College is a residential college for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting scholars from around the world who study and teach at the University of British Columbia. We seek to inspire a global vision and foster a spirit of community among our residents and alumni through multicultural education, intercultural understanding, and international exchange. We cultivate lasting friendships across diverse backgrounds by dining together and creating a home away from home; bringing you "the world around our table." We bring you the world around our table. We aspire to create an atmosphere of social and intellectual engagement through dialogues, lectures, workshops, and other activities. We are committed to enriching the intellectual and cultural life of the University, as well as welcoming and engaging with off-campus communities. We strive to embody the traditions of academic excellence and public service inherited from our founders, the alumni of St. John's University Shanghai. Our mission statement has been translated into 11 languages by our international residents and we are working on adding further translations!
St. John's College and the University of British Columbia are located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people. Musqueam and UBC signed a Memorandum of Affiliation in 2006.
At the College we encourage visitors to reflect on their location at Musqueam territory, following in the footsteps of one of our valued Faculty Fellows, Elder Larry Grant from the Musqueam Nation who speaks at our formal dinners and key events about the long history of these lands, and encourages everyone to reflect on the meaning of unceded.
The College offers residential membership to graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and visiting scholars and students who share an interest in international research issues and global change studies and are committed to a better understanding and acceptance of cultural diversity. The academic life of the College is central to its mandate. Junior Fellows must have a keen intellectual curiosity which extends beyond their own academic discipline in order to fully enjoy and benefit from active participation in the College's wide-ranging academic and social activities – lectures, seminars, workshops, theme colloquia, and performing arts.
Aside from taking up residence at St. John's, residential membership entails active involvement in the social and academic aspects of College life. Involvement takes the form of participation on various social and academic committees, and attendance at functions and lectures sponsored by or otherwise linked with the College. The academic environment provided by St. John's College fosters a better understanding of the UBC and global communities by encouraging dialogue and cultural awareness between residents from Canada and other parts of the world. Members of the College – graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, visiting scholars, Faculty Fellows, and other members of the University who share the scholarly objectives of cross-disciplinary dialogue and academic excellence all play an integral role in the creation of this intellectually and socially enriched community.
The Principal of St. John's College, a faculty member who lives at the College and is an integral part of the community, holds overall responsibility for life at the College. The Principal works closely with the Associate Principal.
To meet our current Principal, Dr. Henry Yu and all the staff at the College, visit:
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As UBC's international graduate residence, St. John's College reports to the Vice-Provost International, who leads the University's diverse and complex international activities on both campuses, and advances UBC's International strategic priorities. You can explore the 2019 strategic plannning process here.
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The Vancouver Summer Program (VSP) is a four-week academic program offered by various Faculties at UBC for students from cooperating universities. The program provides the opportunity to take two academic courses while learning about Canadian practices and culture.
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Tiefschwarz – Do Me (ft. Khan) [New Single]
by Acid Stag | Mar 27, 2015
Berlin brothers Ali Schwarz and Basti Schwarz, aka Tiefschwarz, have announced they will be releasing their fourth album very soon called Left, and are today sharing its first single. Titled 'Do Me,' it is a buoyant, atmospheric recording that features one of Germany's prominent Techo pioneers, Khan.
Left will be seeing its release on June 1st, via Watergate Records.
https://www.facebook.com/tiefschwarzofficial | https://soundcloud.com/tiefschwarz-1


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The renowned Spanish actress Penelope Cruz has received a lot of attention from various publications lately. After landing on the cover of Vogue US sporting a fab natural look, she now sports a rather different look for the British edition of the GQ magazine. Upping the glam factor and sporting a provocative, yet undoubtedly refined and sophisticated look, the actress truly seems to have found the fountain of youth. Given the fact that the premiere of the "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" is just days from now, it's no wonder tha... Read More
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Movie star, international symbol of beauty, and muse to many, from Pedro Almodóvar to Woody Allen, Penélope Cruz is definitely one of Hollywood's most talented and hottest actresses. Now, Penélope graces the May 2012 cover of Harper's Bazaar magazine. In the accompanying interview, the 38-year-old starlet dishes on shooting 'To Rome with Love' after having Leonardo, motherhood and priorities, living in L.A., fashion, her actress idol, and what she would do if she were invisible for a day. "I would go to one of those [legendary talent... Read More
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Penélope Cruz is married to a Spanish Oscar-winning Hollywood actor, Javier Bardem, and she is the mother of a newborn baby boy. The beautiful 37-year-old Spanish actress talks inside 'V' magazine, the fall 2011 issue, about motherhood and how this experience can transform your life completely. Penélope said in the interview that, "The biggest transformation is becoming a mother. It changes you forever." The actress is photographed by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott in the magazine's special 'Transformation Issue'. Whether she wears a... Read More


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A new building for Bk.. feel free to use it however you like, just remember to include me and the creators of blitzkrieg for this building in your mod credits.
off topic but if someone could help me with camera settings, i can make some nice buildings in 3dsmax.. I just cant get the angle right.
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I think I've found the solution, it's an old script made for red alert 2 for making buildings in 3ds max 3 up to max 8. as far as doing it in Maya.. i do not know, but all i need to do is render an image..
a render of a bunker i made a few years ago.. does the angle look right ?
you need xcc mixer, from this old web page.. within the program is the ability to play and extract the sounds to .wav format.


In the middle of China's Gobi desert sits a Mars base simulator, but instead of housing astronauts training to live on the Red Planet, the facility is full of teenagers on a school trip.
NASA has made it clear they want astronauts back on the Moon in 2024, and now, they are zeroing in on the Red Planet—the US space agency confirmed that it wants humans to reach Mars by 2033.
The mystery of methane on Mars may finally be solved as scientists Monday confirmed the presence of the life-indicating gas on the Red Planet as well as where it might have come from.
Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope document the formation of a Great Dark Spot on Neptune for the first time, report researchers in a new study.
In our solar system family, Mars is Earth's next-of-kin, the next-door relative that has captivated humans for millennia. The attraction is sure to grow with Monday's arrival of a NASA lander named InSight.


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HomeHPCStrong Showing for First Experimental RISC-V Supercomputer
Strong Showing for First Experimental RISC-V Supercomputer
June 9, 2022 Nicole Hemsoth HPC 6
A European team of university students has cobbled together the first RISC-V supercomputer capable of showing balanced power consumption and performance.
More importantly, it demonstrates a potential path forward for RISC-V in high performance computing and by proxy, another shot for Europe to shed total reliance on American chip technologies beyond Arm-driven architectures.
The "Monte Cimone" cluster will not be crunching massive weather simulations or the like anytime soon since it's just an experimental machine. That said, it does show that performance sacrifices for lower power envelopes aren't necessarily as dramatic as many believe.
The six-node cluster, built by folks at Università di Bologna and CINECA, the largest supercomputing center in Italy, was part of a broader student cluster competition to showcase various elements of HPC performance beyond just floating-point capability. The cluster-building team, called NotOnlyFLOPs, wanted to establish the power-performance profile of RISC-V when using SiFive's Freedom U740 system-on-chip.
That 2020-era SoC has five 64-bit RISC-V CPU cores – four U7 application cores and an S7 system management core – 2MB of L2 cache, gigabit Ethernet, and various peripheral and hardware controllers. It can run up to around 1.4GHz.
Here's a look at the components as well as feeds and speeds of Monte Cimone:
Six dual-board servers with a form factor of 4.44 cm (1U) high, 42.5 cm width, 40 cm deep. Each board follows the industry standard Mini-ITX form factor (170 mm per 170 mm);
Each board features one SiFive Freedom U740 SoC and 16GB of 64-bit DDR memory operating at 1866s MT/s, plus a PCIe Gen 3 x8 bus operating at 7.8 GB/s, one gigabit Ethernet port, and USB 3.2 Gen 1 interfaces;
Each node has an M.2 M-key expansion slot occupied by a 1TB NVME 2280 SSD used by the operating system. A microSD card is inserted in each board and used for UEFI booting;
Two 250 W power supplies are integrated inside each node to support the hardware and future PCIe accelerators and expansion boards.
An overhead view of each node, showing the two SiFive Freedom SoC boards
The Freedom SoC motherboards are essentially HiFive Unmatched boards from SiFive. Two of the six compute nodes are outfitted with an Infiniband Host Channel Adapter (HCA), as most supercomputers use. The goal was to deploy 56GB/s Infiniband to allow RDMA to eke out what I/O performance was possible.
This is ambitious for a young architecture and it wasn't without a few hiccups. "PCIe Gen 3 lanes are currently supported by the vendor," the cluster team wrote.
"The first experimental results show that the kernel is able to recognize the device driver and mount the kernel module to manage the Mellanox OFED stack. We are not able to use all the RDMA capabilities of the HCA due yet-to-be-pinpointed incompatibilities of the software stack and the kernel driver. Nevertheless we successfully run an IB ping test between two boards and between a board and an HPC server showing that full Infiniband support could be feasible. This is currently a feature under development."
The HPC software stack proved easier than one might expect. "We ported on Monte Cimone all the essential services needed for running HPC workloads in a production environment, namely NFS, LDAP and the SLURM job scheduler. Porting all the necessary software packages to RISC-V was relatively straightforward, and we can hence claim that there is no obstacle in exposing Monte Cimone as a computing resource in a HPC facility," the team noted.
While it's a noteworthy architectural addition to the supercomputing ranks, a RISC-V cluster like this is unlikely to make it onto the Top 500 list of the world's fastest systems. Its design spec is as a low-power workhorse, not a floating point monster.
As the development team notes in their detailed description of the system, "Monte Cimone does not aim to achieve strong floating-point performance, but it was built with the purpose of "priming the pipe" and exploring the challenges of integrating a multi-node RISC-V cluster capable of providing an HPC production stack including interconnect, storage and power monitoring infrastructure on RISC-V hardware."
E4 Computer Engineering served as the integrator and partner on the "Monte Cimone" cluster, which will eventually be This will pave the way for further testing of the RISC-V platform itself along with its ability to play well with other architectures, an important element since we are not likely to see an exascale-class RISC-V system in the next few years at least.
According to E4, "Cimone enables developers to test and validate scientific and engineering workloads in a rich software stack, including development tools, libraries for message-passing programming, BLAS, FFT, drivers for HS networks and I/O devices. The objective is to achieve a future-ready position capable of addressing and leveraging the features of the RISC-V ISA for scientific and engineering applications and workloads in an operational environment."
Dr Daniele Cesarini, HPC Specialist at CINECA: "As a supercomputing center, we are very interested in the RISC-V technology to support the scientific community. We are excited to contribute to the RISC-V ecosystem supporting the installation and tuning of widely-used scientific codes and mathematical libraries to push forward the development of high-performance RISC-V CPUs. We believe that Monte CIMONE will be the harbinger of the next generation of supercomputers based on RISC-V technology and we will continue to work in synergy with E4 Computer Engineering and the Università di Bologna to prove that RISC-V is ready to stay on the shoulder of the HPC giants."
There is plenty of RISC-V in Europe funding and project-wise, although the fruits of those labors could take years to see. Now, even Intel is eyeing for the future of supercomputing. It's all a RISC-Y (you saw that coming) bet, but with few native architectural options in Europe, at least picking an early winner is easy.
Ventana Sees Window for Robust RISC-V Server Business
September 2, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth Compute 0
The field is littered with the remnants of Arm and RISC-V server startups. While the wounded have been taken in from the armies of large chipmakers, bandaged up, and sent home to find a new calling, some climb back into the fray — faithful as ever to the dream of …
Europe Inches Closer to Native RISC-V Reality
September 22, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth Compute 0
The European Processor Initiative (EPI) has pinned its hopes on RISC-V as the path to European semiconductor independence. The program, which began in 2015 with the goal of building a native exascale supercomputer by 2023, took longer than expected to work out the architectural plan for its RISC-V designs but …
Alibaba On The Bleeding Edge Of RISC-V With XT910
August 21, 2020 Jeffrey Burt Compute 4
It was just over a year ago that the RISC-V Foundation, the group shepherding the chip architecture in what over the past decade has become an active and crowded processor market, ratified the base instruction set architecture (ISA) and related specifications. It was a significant step for a relatively new …
Abot13 says:
Picking a Europe native winner is easy indeed. Arm, it won years ago and is Europe native. More options are always better ofcourse
JohnD says:
"a shot for Europe to shed total reliance on American chip technologies" OK, but already positions 1, 3 and 8 in the top ten most powerful computers in the world use AMD chips and position 2 uses chips based around the UKs ARM chip, originally standing for "Acorn RISC machine". See https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2022/06/
Eric Olson says:
Had the Nvidia deal to buy ARM not fallen through, it's possible the Grace CPU design might eventually have been licensed in a similar way to the rest of the ARM portfolio. The present alternative of taking ARM public may change the focus to monetisation of existing technology.
The unknown changes either possibility brings to the ARM ecosystem makes RISC-V a risk-averse alternative for HPC.
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And why is it so critical to avoid buying anything from the USA? From where is this hatred coming from? Trying to wean countries from reliance on Communist China because of their ambitions to take over the Pacific, or from Russia because of their desires to subjugate all the countries grabbed by the Communists in the last century, has some merit, but the US?
And while I am at it, European shows are always saying "US Imperialism". What the heck is that? What countries have we taken over to expand our "empire"? There was one very small window, in the 1890s where newspapers manipulated the public into a war with Spain to take their possessions. But that was a very short lapse in judgment.
All the other wars were to liberate others, or prevent the communist takeover of the planet. Certainly some of those were misjudgments, but never intended to subjugate.
You benefit from NATO, but underneath you have no loyalties, friends of convenience…like sociopaths.
If the US was an Empire, it would have taken all of North and South America, easy, and never given back Japan to its people. The Philippines also would still be US. We also would have claimed all the waters of the Pacific. Our Navy is 10x as powerful as any other. We use the Navy to make the oceans free for every country to use it.
Calling it a "supercomputer" is pure hyperbole – it's basically a small cluster using a board similar to a Raspberry PI 3. This might get ~60 GFLOPs overall, but a modern phone does about 180 GFLOPs at a fraction of the power (just the 4 little cores will do about 60). So do we all have supercomputers in our pockets now?!?
The real European supercomputer, Sipearl Rhea, uses 72 Neoverse V1 cores at ~2500 GFLOPs per chip (unaccelerated).
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"Mythical" Vietnamese Mouse-Deer Thought to be Extinct Caught on Camera
11:18:00 PM Science Edit
It's neither a mouse nor a deer and, in contrast to the usual news, it's not extinct anymore either. The adorable and diminutive silver-backed chevrotain of Vietnam, AKA "mouse-deer," was thought to have gone extinct in the 1990s. Now researchers say they have caught evidence of a population of mouse-deer and believe there may be pockets of Vietnam where the animal still thrives.
Informally known as a mouse-deer, because there's no better way to describe what this thing looks like, the silver-backed chevrotain is a small ungulate native only to Vietnam. While never officially declared extinct, the mouse-deer was already so rare that the International Union for the Conservation of Nature listed its conservation status as "data deficient." Apart from unconfirmed local reports, the animal hasn't been seen in nearly 30 years. Now according to a new paper published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, researchers have video evidence that there is at least a small population of mouse-deer still living in south-east Vietnam.
It's one of those really-cute-but-weirder-the-more-you-look-at-it animals. (Andrew Tilker/SIE/GWC/Leibniz-IZW/NCNP)
After local reports suggested a strong possibility that silver-backed chevrotains still lived in the forests near Nha Trang, researchers set up three camera traps with hopes to catch a glimpse of the animal. All three cameras had pictures of the mouse-deer. With such a surprisingly good result, the researchers increased the number of cameras to 29 and left them out between the months of April and July of 2018. When they retrieved the camera, 15 of the 29 had images of the silver-backed chevrotain. Professor James Watson of the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science at the University of Queensland says the results are "heartwarming." According to Watson:
"[The silver-backed chevrotain] was mythical. People talked for years about whether it existed or not."
Now that the animal has been confirmed to still exist, the researchers say their work is far from over. They write:
It is critical that the confirmation of the species' survival is followed by on-the-ground action. The most pressing needs are to assess the status of the newly recorded population, search for additional populations and assess the major threats that the species faces. Together, this information can provide the foundation for an evidence-based conservation plan for the silver-backed chevrotain.
Unfortunate nose, though. Credit: Flickr user seeks2dream (CC BY-SA 2.0)
The researchers "recommend intensive, systematic camera-trapping across the forest block" to determine the accurate distribution and size of the population. They say that while their initial results were promising, the area of forest surveyed was not large enough to accurately assess the health of the mouse-deer population.
Still, it's good news in a world that is losing species more rapidly than ever before. Of course, it should also be pointed out that conservation efforts have done fantastic work in saving species that were thought to be beyond the point of saving. And we are finding out that many more species beyond the mouse-deer might not be as extinct as we thought.
About Minh Hiếu


The only reason we were on the stupid streetcar to begin with was because the Pink Panther was in the shop. Again. And the only reason we were on the streetcar together was because we were registering me at a new school, Northern Heights Collegiate, for grade nine.
"It vas his tinking." She gripped my knee in a vise. She has beautiful hands, my mama. I'll give her that. Mama insists that you can't be a first-class, top-notch real estate agent without good hands, and it almost makes sense. That's how Mama usually gets me—by almost making sense.
She had me until the class bit. Papa didn't care about first-class people. Papa was first-class people. Okay, not at the moment, or for the last six years or so, but he was. Mama said so. Even the Aunties said so and they can't stand him. Mama patted my knee in a lame effort to restore my circulation.
Well, she had that right. Two weeks late into grade nine. Lifelong friendships among the new kids had been formed by day four at the latest. Last year's middle school and junior high groups, with a summer addition or two, were locked into airtight cliques that would take them into their child-bearing years. I was DMOA, dead meat on arrival, and that was before anyone figured out about Papa.
"I'm not remembering," she sniffed.
Mama learned English off the subtitles of old Hollywood movies. You could learn Russian as a second language in Mama's little Bulgarian village, but English was forbidden, so that's how a lot of people did it. Picking up a whole language from old movies is pretty brilliant, if you think about it. It's just that she sounds as if she's in an MGM musical half the time. Papa doesn't. He learned his English in Poland, where they didn't want you to speak English either, but somehow Papa had picked it up perfectly. Maybe it was because Papa is a Polish prince. Really, that or a duke or a count or something seriously up there like that.
Despite the royalty connection, I'm a mongrel. I don't even know what religion I am. Papa was baptized Catholic but Mama was baptized atheist. Claire O'Conner took great care to explain my mongrelness to me in grade six. She was Irish up and down both sides of her family. "Hundred percent pure," she said. See, Mama is from Bulgaria, Papa is from Poland, they met in Romania, and they had me in Hungary. Apparently, being an English-speaking Polish prince-type person was not a good thing to be in any of those places, so we all moved here when I was four. I don't remember any of it. That's okay.
I've got enough to remember with what I do remember.
I used to try playing the Polish prince card when things got ugly at the other schools, but murderer trumps prince at recess every single time.
No more, no sir. I wasn't going through that again. Mama wasn't there in the playgrounds, in the cafeterias, in the washrooms—all those washrooms.
Okay, really, really slowly, but I did, and it didn't have anything to do with being surrounded by "first-class peoples." Surviving school had to do with power. Papa was right: You have to make yourself bulletproof. This time I was going to squeeze myself right into the middle of the power source at Northern Heights. And after five schools, I knew for sure that the power source was going to be the Blondes.
See, I figure if you are in tight with the Blondes, you're in till you die. It's like back-stabbing and banishment are for the rich-redheads and the brunettes-with-boyfriends cliques. They had power circles with rings of wannabes at the edges who were ousted, then grudgingly welcomed back in, or not. That sort of stuff was beneath the Blondes—Blondes were forever. So, first thing, before anything, I had to find my Blondes and make them adore me. How hard could that be really? I mean who were the Blondes but the granddaughters of the Crabtree & Evelyn ladies, and they adored me.
Who was I kidding? DMOA.
Remember? I'll join him by tomorrow afternoon.
As we disembarked, the streetcar driver winked at us or her or me. I can never be sure with Mama.
The school was across the street.
I had to admit, not to her of course, that it was pretty, one of those really, really old-style schools. The sign over the front entrance said northern heights collegiate, 1917. The building had a lot of that detailed stonework that you could get in those days because, as Claire said, the Irish would do all that stuff for the price of a potato. And there was tons of green space with big old oaks and maples where all the portables should have been. Actually, it was beautiful.
Mama and I swung open the heavily carved doors and landed in the main foyer.
It may have been a high-class high school with high-class students, but the place still smelled like every other school foyer I've ever been in. Only two weeks into the year and it reeked like the inside of a gym shoe. It sort of calmed me down to know that rich kids' sweat stinks just as bad as poor kids' sweat. I trailed behind Mama as she swanned into the registrar's office.
An old lady, maybe forty, was barely visible behind stacks and stacks of paper.
As soon as Mama and I sat down, we lost complete sight of Mrs. Haver behind the paper towers.
Mama cast down her eyes, put her hand on her chest, and sighed. "I am a professional real estate voman. Ya? Ve move all za time to better our situation, you understand? Since her …" now a pitying glance in my direction, "her fawder dropped dead, may he rest vit lots of peace. Oh, he vas a Catholic, but not really a big von, you understand." Even deeper sigh. "It is not easy for vidow ladies. So, ve move and move and now ve buy, and ve are in your first-class district." Full beam.
I crossed my eyes at her. Mama can read perfectly in Bulgarian, Russian, French, and even English, but she can't read a word without her glasses, which she point-blank refuses to wear in front of another human. I'd have to check all the forms when we got home.
"Condominiums," I said, just for the sake of saying something.
"You can say that again. And your daughter … Sophie?" she called.
I heard a gasp. It was me.
"It vas?" Mama looked puzzled.
I nodded furiously at her.
"Thank you, ma'am." She called me Sophie, not Sophia. Sophie. I liked it. I liked it a lot. It sounded breezy, carefree, potentially popular.
Mama practically skipped out of there, stiletto heels and all. She hadn't moved like that in a long time. Years even. I was kind of skipping too, on the inside. Sometimes, I disgust myself. I mean, I haven't seen or talked to Papa in forever, and then we go and kill him off. We kill him and I feel great? What was this? I like to be nice. I want to be famously nice. It's like a serious goal and everything. When people hear my name, I want them to feel compelled to say, "Sophia—no Sophie—is sooo nice." My hunch is that you can't kill off your father, feel really good about it, and still be considered nice.
Oh well. I could live with that.
Excerpted from Me and the Blondes by Teresa Toten. Copyright © 2006 by Teresa Toten. Excerpted by permission of Penguin Books. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.


Click on the image to view Cheryll D. Fiel's pictures of the ritual.
A giant power company plans to build a hydroelectric plant in Tudaya, a village in Davao del Sur. Proponents of the project said the plant would "not only offer solution to the power crisis in the offing, but at the same time provide livelihood opportunities and other benefits to the communities." The Lumads in the area, however, are up in arms, claiming that the plant would desecrate Tudaya Falls, which is their worship ground, and destroy their way of life. They also accuse Hedcor, the power company, of misleading members of the tribe. They expressed their opposition to the project by holding a sacred ritual last week. Davao Today�s Cheryll D. Fiel was there.
STA. CRUZ, Davao del Sur — Apo Adoc Puroc, a 106-year-old revered tribal leader , led his fellow Bagobo-Tagabawas on the path leading to Tudaya Falls, a sacred worship ground known to them as Samboangan, to offer prayers to the spirits in a rare ritual held in what could be the tribe's most trying of times.
The day was auspicious for Apo Adoc and his fellow tribesmen. If the Aboitiz-owned company Hydro Electric Development Corporation (Hedcor) will succeed in putting up two hydroelectric power plants out of the mountain streams that flow into the Tudaya waterfall, it may have to be their last glimpse of Samboangan.
A sitio of Sta. Cruz town�s barangay Sibulan in Davao del Sur, Tudaya Falls is bounded by Baroring and Sibulan rivers, which Hedcor currently intends to divert and tap for hydroelectric generation to supply the additional power needs of the Davao-based power company Davao Light Power Corporation. But the area is part of the ancestral land of the Bagobo-Tagabawa tribe, a Mindanao indigenous tribe living in the surrounding areas of Mount Apo.
Aside from being the tribe�s sacred worship ground, where they offer prayers and rituals, Mount Apo�s highest waterfall is also where the life of the Bagobo-Tagabawa tribe revolves. Mists coming from the waterfall serve as a natural sprinkler that nourish the surrounding land planted to vegetables, fruit trees, corn, bananas, abaca, sweet potatoes and cassava, as well as coffee even during long hot seasons.
For Apo Adoc, the oldest and deeply revered spiritual leader of the Bagobo-Tagabawa, Tudaya Falls is a gift from God and must never be abused by humans. But Hedcor plans to create weirs across the rivers to control the flow of water and harness it for hydropower. The power firm also plans to build conveyance lines, forebays, penstock and power lines in Sibulan, as well as submerge portions of the land area for manmade headponds, one of which is to be located at the back of Tudaya Elementary School, near Apo Adoc's village.
Apo Adoc, who also leads the oldest indigenous sect called the �Sandawa Sariling Langis,� known here as �Lanahan,� said he would never ever sign any document that will pave the way for the Hedcor project. He said selling out lands is prohibited by their forebears. He also fears earning the ire of the spirits that dwell in Samboangan.
But he said it is the "outsiders" who are pushing for the project.
Early this year, officials assured the public that the Tudaya plant would be beneficial to the people. "These projects not only offer solution to the power crisis in the offing, but at the same time provide livelihood opportunities and other benefits to the communities," said Gil Dureza of the Board of Investmens.
Hedcor has secured a Certificate of Free and Prior Informed Consent (FPIC), a government requirement for private companies proposing business projects in designated ancestral domain, but according to the research made by the Technical Working Group Committee (TWGC), a team created by Sta. Cruz town officials to look into the effects of Hedcor�s hydropower project, there are anomalies in the process of securing papers for the approval of the project.
TWGC cited in a report obtained by davaotoday.com that there was no proper and satisfactory consultation conducted, including getting permission from residents of the directly affected areas, as well as adequate explanation on the effects the project on the people in the area.
�Lanahan� pastor Lorito Balido said those that Hedcor consulted were not from Tudaya but from neighboring villages. Those from Tudaya who were able to join and signified their agreement were too few, he said. Some of them, he added, had been deceived into signing a document they did not fully understand.
The article was written extensively. I admire the investigative ideas of the one who wrote this. Actually, I was also there during the ritual. And i believe, 'twas put into writings so well.
Keep it up! for a job well done!
dat's wat you call mother nature!
is there any history about tundaya falls? how could it's ritual happen if there's no such history about this falls?


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When the COVID-19 pandemic started, working from home suddenly became the work setup for a lot of organizations. But today, companies are now figuring out that the pandemic has accelerated a location-agnostic mindset in the corporate world. Working remotely has traditionally held a bad reputation, but more and more companies in the Philippines are adopting work-from-home policies which opened new job opportunities to a lot of talent all over the country.
The truth is, many professionals in the rural areas of the Philippines migrate to the city to find better opportunities in terms of jobs, lifestyle, education, etc. Plus, the labor rate is higher. Urbanization has resulted in major cities becoming overpopulated. But with remote work on the rise, a lot of doors opened to individuals looking for ways that would allow them to get a job in the main city—one that offers a competitive salary package, benefits, and perks—without having to go through the hustle and bustle of Metro Manila city life.
Like these businesses, Booth & Partners also adapted to this flexible modern work setup. We saw it as the perfect opportunity to diversify our tribe by exploring a vast pool of talent from all over the Philippines. There are a lot of main cities and provinces in the country that are thriving with talent.
Transitioning to Virtual Recruitment
COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique challenge for businesses across the globe. Many companies are reacting by optimizing their workforce according to the new demand and market conditions. This new business climate is emphasizing the need for robust and functional remote teams that can extend beyond geographies, time zones, and cultures.
Adapting to the new normal, Booth & Partners developed an online process that allows us to remotely recruit and hire top Filipino talent even amidst challenging times like this. Our recruitment & onboarding process remains fully functional in a virtual format and allows new team members to seamlessly integrate into our remote workforce.
Our Talent Acquisition Manager, Liz Dela Cuesta, shared her thoughts about Booth & Partners' online recruitment and onboarding process:
"Aside from keeping candidates safe, it has streamlined the process with just a few clicks. As a result, it increased the number of candidates we're getting. Plus, candidate experience also improved, eliminating the hours of travel and waiting time. It takes only 30 to 45 minutes to interview in their formal tops and pajamas. Also, we make sure the onboarding process is still engaging. We do live orientation via Zoom, supported by accessible video modules and training material."
One of Booth & Partners' core values is to "Make it happen" and we proved that we can when we rolled out our e-Talent Acquisition process when our remote work setup started.
Stories from Remote Workers
While most companies in Metro Manila dive into the candidates within the region, other main cities and provinces in the country remain to be unexplored. These locations could represent one of the most untapped talent pools out there. Not only is there huge potential for skilled people, but pulling from these different communities helps diversify our thinking to create and build more innovative teams.
During the pandemic, we started hiring talented and professional candidates from across the country. We asked how they are doing in today's remote work setup, especially those who are working from different provinces in the Philippines:
1. The one who enjoys deep focus, as told by John Pritz Belleza, Front-end Developer from Davao City
Like the majority of the new hires, I found out about my current job role through an online job search site. With the pandemic situation looking dismal and with major cities becoming virus hubs, I started entertaining the idea of applying for a remote job position online. Remote work job ads after remote work job ads made me realize that the new reality of the work setup is now here to stay.
After considering my options, I chose Booth & Partners and was employed for a fully remote position as a Frontend Developer with no prior remote work experience, so it was just down to trying to figure out the "remote" part of my new career.
As a Web Developer who is used to the office environment, what worked for me best is to take a structured approach. From personal to productivity to team productivity, I had several questions in mind that I addressed first like how do I manage my time and tasks independently? How can I gain more focus? How can my peers and supervisors rely on me with minimal supervision? How can I communicate more efficiently?
Once I started getting my feet wet, things became more natural, and slowly felt like we were in an in-office arrangement. Working from home has been a quieter, more convenient working experience which allows me greater focus because at least for me, there are fewer distractions and more time on my hands. The communication and productivity tools and knowing how to use them are very crucial to making this happen.
Additionally, despite not being able to attend onsite events, the company still creates successful and engaging virtual activities like team buildings and Slack games. These activities help me feel included as well as get to know other employees from various departments. All of these and more are the reasons why I have started to prefer this work setup.
About Davao
Photo Credits: City Government of Davao https://bit.ly/3iU4Kqt
Davao is the third-largest city in the Philippines known for its bustling economic activities and state-of-the-art amenities. It serves as the main trade, commerce, and industry hub in the Mindanao Region. The economic performance of Davao is 9.2% in 2016, as measured by the Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) and Gross Regional Domestic Expenditure (GRDE). It boasts its 98.7% literacy rate in 2015 and employment rate of 82.1 in 2020.
Davao is recently riding on its success as one of the safest cities in South East Asia according to the report of The Manila Times. Two of the things that make it a viable destination for outsourcing projects are its open atmosphere and location, being almost devoid of any geographic calamities.
2. The one who misses those little chitchats and office vibe. as told by John Paul Sison, Customer Support Specialist from Lingayen, Pangasinan
One time I wondered, "What can I do to enjoy the little things here in my hometown while having a job that can sustain my needs?" I have been trying to find an opportunity that would allow me to maximize my time and other resources until I heard about the job openings at Booth & Partners.
I wanted to maximize my sleep time by not waking up a few hours prior to my work schedule. I want to save costs, take fresh air, and feel the nature in my hometown. Fortunately, this remote work opportunity gave me all that. Savoring my time off work and appreciating every bit of this work-from-home arrangement, I can accomplish more things. You can tell that I am a very practical person.
I never thought I could survive this kind of work setup, taking into account that I'm 5 hours away from Metro Manila. Since the beginning, my experience with this work setup has consistently been extraordinary. The recruitment and onboarding process is fast and smooth. What I appreciate the most about it is the coordination between staff. I did not feel in any way that my location would be a barrier to being employed in a company based in Makati, truly we are now living in a global village.
But honestly, there were challenges. I, for one, struggled to adjust. Being quite a social butterfly who loves human interaction, I miss those little talks at the workspace as well as the physical workspace environment, the energizing rhythm and beat of the people working. I am the type who prefers in-office work because the work environment inspires me to be productive. There are indeed online platforms where we can still connect, however, I now and then long for the in-person presence of my colleagues who likewise turned into my buddies. But, if you're experiencing or having the same thoughts as mine, reaching out to your colleagues for non-work conversations during break times can help you overcome it.
Also Read: Burnout Blues: How to Spot and Stop Work-from-home Burnout
John Paul Sison in his home office setup in Pangasinan
In my case, the remote work arrangement is working great, especially that the company provided me with the resources to support my work. Effective communication, great remote work culture, and regular engagement activities are what make the work-from-home setup more sustainable for me.
About Lingayen, Pangasinan
Lingayen Town Plaza in Lingayen, Pangasinan
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Lingayen is considered to be the heart, soul, and face of Pangasinan Province. It's the home for the most delectable Bagoong—a Philippine condiment made of either fermented fish or shrimp paste with salt. According to theories, the salinity of the air in the area is why fish fermentation is ideal in Lingayen, Pangasinan.
Pangasinan has an employment rate of 94.71% in 2019 and a literacy rate of 96.6%. Its economy is driven by agro-industrial businesses and at the same time the importance of trading, financial services, and educational services in the economy cannot be denied.
3. The one who doesn't miss the daily commute, as told by Stefanie Concepcion, Customer Support Specialist from Sta. Rosa, Laguna
For quite a long time, it has consistently been my dream to bid goodbye to the hassle of the daily commute; and the remote work opportunity made it possible. More than that, it provided me with additional time to do all my daily activities and hobbies.
I am loving every bit of this work-from-home setup. I don't have to get up so early to make sure I get a comfortable seat on the bus going to the workplace. I don't have to take off a couple of hours of my rest time just to ensure I will not experience the substantial traffic going to Manila right from the South. Additionally, I can eat with my family during meals and play with my pets during breaks. I even have time for my daily workout!
Working in this kind of arrangement helps me have a better work-life balance. If we're on a traditional office setup, most of our time before and after work hours will probably be spent in the traffic. When we finally get home, we're already too tired to function and it will be the same thing every day, and it's kind of exhausting.
Stefanie Concepcion in her home office setup in Laguna
Remote work helps me save my energy to focus on my role as a Customer Support Specialist. I became more efficient and productive at work and it didn't affect my relationship with my teammates. We still chat as if we're together in an office setup, the only difference is that it's virtual this time.
The company's engagement activities help us get along with other remote work employees from different departments. I feel included as I always make sure that I am active during meetings and whatever activities we have. You just have to take extra effort if you truly want to be involved.
Also Read: How to Achieve Work-Life Balance While Working Remotely
About Sta. Rosa, Laguna
Greenfield Paseo Outlets in Sta. Rosa, Laguna
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Sta. Rosa is a first-class and second-largest local government unit in Laguna. In 2020, the CALABARZON region, which includes Laguna, recorded an employment rate of 87.6%. The location is popular for several manufacturing plants in industrial estates as well as for being the site of one of the famous theme parks in the Philippines, the Enchanted Kingdom. So when we're finally 100% free to go out with confidence, buzz Stefanie and explore more about her hometown!
4. The one who is family-oriented, as told by Roberto Ricasa Jr., Customer Experience SME from Cavite
My family, friends, and colleagues call me "Arvee" and you can call me by that name too. I was searching for an opportunity that would allow me to look after my family while working, and fortunately, I came across Booth & Partners' remote work job positions.
I discovered that telecommuting is really advantageous from all points since I don't need to stress any longer over the gridlocks and getting up too soon. Who wouldn't want to skip those everyday parts of our lives pre-pandemic? Particularly for employees like me from Cavite, which is hours away from Metro Manila.
Fast forward to my recruitment and onboarding moments, everything seemed smooth sailing. From the clients to supervisors, managers, and leadership team, I love the respect being given to everyone. Plus, all of the company's activities are fun and engaging.
In my months of working remotely, I believe it's going great for me and my team. Although I have never met anyone in the company in person, I can say that we have effectively made an amazing bond even with employees from other departments. And I know the people who were recruited during the pandemic could relate to me, right? The bond that we made regardless if it's virtual is spectacular! Everybody is inviting and accommodating. All thanks to the great personality of everyone in the company since it is a major factor in having a viable distant group.
Roberto Ricasa Jr. (Arvee) in his home office setup in Cavite
But of course, similar to anything else in the world, working from home has its fair share of challenges at times. One I've encountered is network interference and blackouts. Unlike in the office where there is internet service and power supply reinforcement. Our data and hotspot don't work that much due to signal restrictions in our area and knowing my situation, the company provided me with Hotspots and emergency lights to assist me with ceaselessly working efficiently and productively.
In case you're wondering as to whether I recommend remote work to other companies and employees, I believe it's a success at least for Booth & Partners. Taking a gander at our group alone, we never had low scores in attendance and since everybody is comfortable, other metrics are likewise getting higher. But the best part of every day is that I can take care of my family while also doing my role as a Customer Experience SME. Along these lines, it's most certainly a YES!
About Cavite
Aguinaldo Shrine and Museum in Kawit, Cavite
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Cavite is one of the most industrialized and fastest-growing provinces in the Philippines. It is the historical capital of the country, being the cradle of the Philippine revolution. It is also a part of the CALABARZON region that has an employment rate of 87.6% and a literacy rate of 99.7% among the household population of 10 years old and over. The area has many urbanization and industrialization projects that will soon open doors to many employment and business opportunities.
Taking a better look at the remote work experiences of our work-from-home employees, you can say that each person has a unique take on working from home, but at the end of the day, what truly counts is the employee experience and how a company will handle the remote work setup. How about you, what's your remote work story?
Also Read: 5 Work-from-home Stories from Our Tribe
Remote Work Opportunities for Booth & Partners and for You!
Remote work setup opened many amazing opportunities for us as a company. It allows us to be a warrior against climate change while exploring wider options of talent across the Philippines. But more than that, it opened many amazing opportunities to individuals from different cities and provinces all over the country without leaving their beloved hometowns and loved ones.
If you're a job seeker looking for greater opportunities, apply for a job today at Booth & Partners! Jumpstart your career and be a part of a company that acts for the environment and human diversity.
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