01 Germany: Bundesbahn - Versuchsanstalt Minden of travellers attempt train. Driver's cab of the experimental train (inside). Material tests on the Rails. Gauge. Test the lubricity of the grease. Measurements is how tight the track into the gravel bed. Measurements on wheels. Vibration test at 160 kilometres per hour. Pointer points to 250 km / h. heat load of the brake discs. Running technique, vibration control, braking and heat technology will be tested in Minden. Electric system and drive systems in Munich. Train will be tested in the compartment of the car. Light signals in the laboratory. Insulators and Streckentrenner in the overhead contact line. Special welding processes, data processing system. Train over camera installed on sleepers.
02. Hamburg: 100 year anniversary Blohm and Voss barge, sailing ships (background). Blohm & Voss dock with a ship. Photos about the founders of the shipyard 100 years ago. Historical pictures of the initial shipyard facility. Bark "Flora". Historical pictures of the port of Hamburg. High-fidelity models of ships, which were built at the shipyard. Models of tall ships. "Gorch Fock" released before the Blohm & Voss shipyard visit. People with umbrellas and wellies. Helmut Schmidt speaks at the celebration o-ton: "you can say a fine example of punctuality and reliability, and hamburger - can we yes probably also prides itself on its, nich?' - however for these difficult times in which the German shipbuilding industry is, you can't get out alone with pride." It remains all the more important that we uphold the virtues and skills that 100 years have been maintained in this company Blohm & Voss. "that value work, precision, thoroughness, inventiveness, above all reliability." Launching the "Australian progress".
03. Netherlands: oil rig oil rig will be dragged by several barges (aerial view). Oil rig in the sea. Work on the island. Hole. Under the platform walkways. Man immediately. Oil rig (zoom).
Deutsche Bundesbahn: Versuchsanstalt Minden camera: L., Jürgens Blohm and Voss, 100 jährg. Jubiläumm camera: fire, Rühe, Jordan oil rig origin: Polygoon Rodeo origin: DEFA at the beginning and end of total length
This technique: Crash test with 250 cases in the future. Since everything must be just: the design, the material, the interplay of all components. Safety on the rail. Achieved through extreme material tests. Is this rail as resistant to pressure?
The best of the best - for wheel bearings. Time and again, the lubricity of the grease is examined and - if possible - be improved upon. Key laboratory and design office: the TÜV for wheel and rail. Alias afford the two railways - institutes, who recently celebrated her 70th birthday. Their highly specialized technicians are on the control panel of the progress. Here is measured is how tight the track into the gravel bed. The traveler sees nothing of them. He trusts rightly that the wheel-rail keeps system, what he promises by the Bundesbahn: sure to travel quickly and comfortably.
The wheel must not stand still. The competition of other modes of transport forces to test the limits of what is technically feasible. Constantly tested and researched further - and renewed. Shake test bei_160 kilometers per hour. The engineers at the speed of the future approach on the bogie frame is. The required new chassis to guarantee more safety and comfort even at speeds of 250.
Brake test. Must the heat stress of the discs be how high? The fatigue strength of rail vehicle components is an absolute priority. The two research centres in Munich and Minden share the work. The Minden specialists take care of E.g. running and vibration, braking and heat technology. The electrical and propulsion systems are being tested in Munich. Train-sensitive travellers have it even more comfortable. Light signal in the laboratory. Strength and incidence - angle must be such that the driver can detect the signals in all circumstances.
Warning: High voltage. Insulators and Streckentrenner in the overhead contact line must withstand high surge voltages. Large electric arcs can cause damage.
Higher speeds require new technology – including the specific welding process to apply specific metal alloys to a wheel set. What always also the engineers to figure out nothing remains hidden, nothing is forgotten. A computer stores the inventiveness, parses it, and helps check whether the proposals are feasible. Safety, efficiency, reliability, comfort - research today ensures the standard of tomorrow.
The railway venturing into new dimensions - a credit to those unknown men behind the machine.
This economy: Shipyard drought of Hamburg tradition shipyard Blohm + Voss celebrated birthday. One hundred years ago the founders had their first boat keel laid: the bark of "Flora". The modest shipbuilding forge on the Elbe island of Kuhwerder became a symbol for the economic growth of the Gründerzeit. Three decades later, it was the largest private shipyard in the world, built music steamers, freighters, warships and alongside 37 tall ships, of which some are still under sail. The "Gorch Fock" - the sailing ship of the German Navy - with Blohm belongs to the windjammers, + Voss ran from stack. She was anchored on the anniversary day before their home yard, to create the folk festival, the Hamburg of their yard prepared, a nostalgic highlight. Hamburger dirty weather, school children and old driving people listened a hamburger from Bonn, the the latest launched at Blohm + Voss for the occasion took courage for the future to the shipbuilders.
Chancellor Helmut Schmidt: "you can say a fine example of punctuality and reliability, and hamburgers: ' we can yes probably also prides itself on its, nich?'"
For these difficult times in which the German shipbuilding industry is, you can't go out alone of all things with pride. It is all the more important that we the virtues and abilities keep up in this company Blohm + Voss; been maintained for 100 years namely value work, precision, thoroughness, inventiveness, above all, reliability. "This is the last major order for Blohm + Voss: the giant freighter" Australian progress ", which slid after the Chancellor's speech by the slipway in the Elbe.
To keep the German shipyards to compete with heavily subsidized foreign competition on the route, Bonn with interest subsidies and shipbuilding programs trying to help.
This energy: Oil boom the German shipyards in the so-called "consultants", the technical systems for the use of mineral resources beneath the seabed fixed near the coast are good in business. As the petroleum companies in the North Sea have been found, they ordered immediately by the dozen drilling rigs and oil platforms. German shipyards secured a share of behalf of billions. Since changing the four-legged giant concrete and steel of the sea landscape between Norway and the United Kingdom. The last few weeks show that they can be dangerous. An incorrectly mounted valve on a production platform in the Ekofisk field broke under the pressure of subsidised oil. Tens of thousands of tonnes of oil poured into the North Sea, an environmental disaster threatened the coastal countries. Meanwhile, it seems but be sure that the North Sea residents once again got away with it. But will this incident be not the last. Western Europe, ambitious attempt to solve, by the Arab oil States from dependence on risks. But that price is not too high according to the European industrial countries.
This show: seconds-dance to choose from naked fun at the risk the risk: that is far away from energy and other concerns the motto for America's noble Cowboys. If the spring in the limbs shoots riders and horses, they measure their forces. Still a public sport, a festival called Rodeo is to ride horses in the States.
It becomes more difficult if the rider artists swap the horse with the bulls. Whose only purpose in life is to climb female conspecifics, didn't like it apparently, to be climbed at the start of his heat career even. The competition rules are therefore adapted to fierce resistance: who lasts longer than 8 seconds on his muscular back, may call itself henceforth bull rider. But most are even 8 seconds bulls far too long.
