Fokker M.5

The Fokker M.5 was an unarmed single-seat monoplane aircraft designed and built by Anthony Fokker in 1913. It served as a light reconnaissance aircraft with the German army at the outbreak of World War I and was the basis for the first successful fighter aircraft in German service, the Fokker E.I.

Design

Fokker's design for the M.5 was very closely based on that of the French Morane-Saulnier H shoulder-wing monoplane - although the fuselage was built around a welded steel tube frame in place of the wooden wire-braced box girder structure of the Type H.

The powerplant was a 60 kW (80 hp) Gnome Lambda 7-cylinder rotary engine (built under licence by Oberursel as the U.0). As in the Morane original, the tail and elevators were fully movable, having no fixed section. There were two versions of the M.5: the long-span 'M.5L' and the short-span 'M.5K' ("K" for kurz meaning "short" in German). The M.5 was light, strong and manoeuvrable, capable of aerobatics (although, like all aircraft relying on the early style of Morane balanced elevators, it had very sensitive fore-and-aft control) - Fokker himself performed in the M.5 at Johannisthal in May and June 1914, winning a number of awards.

M5

M5, M-5, M.5, M-V, or M05 may refer to:

Transportation

Ground

  • M5 (New York City bus), a New York City Bus route in Manhattan
  • M5 motorway, England
  • M5 South Western Motorway, Sydney, Australia
  • Metroad 5 (Brisbane), Brisbane, Australia, comprising the M5 Centenary Freeway and M5 Western Freeway
  • M5 motorway (Northern Ireland), Northern Ireland
  • M5 motorway (Hungary)
  • M-5 (Michigan highway), a state highway in the Detroit area
  • M05 highway (Ukraine), a road connecting Kiev and Odessa
  • M5 highway (Russia), another name for the Ural Highway in Russia
  • M5 (Cape Town), an expressway in Cape Town, South Africa
  • M5 highway (Belarus) (European route E271)
  • M5 (Istanbul Metro), a subway line under construction on the Asian side of Istanbul, Turkey
  • Bucharest Metro Line M5, a planned line in Romania
  • Line 5, Milan Metro of Milan Metro
  • BMW M5, a luxury high-performance car made since the mid-1980s
  • Military

  • M5, a variant of the Stuart tank, a World War II-era American light tank
  • M5, a variant of the M3 Half-track military armored personnel carrier
  • M-5 (Michigan highway)

    M-5, commonly referred to as Grand River Avenue and the northern section as the Haggerty Connector, is a 20.807-mile-long (33.486 km) state trunkline highway in the Metro Detroit area of the US state of Michigan. The highway runs through suburbs in Oakland and Wayne counties in addition to part of Detroit itself. It starts in Commerce Township as a north–south divided highway and freeway called the Haggerty Connector and connects with Interstate 96 (I-96) in Novi. The freeway then turns southeasterly to bypass the suburb of Farmington as an east–west highway. The freeway ends on the southeast side of Farmington, and M-5 follows Grand River Avenue as boulevard into Detroit. The eastern terminus is at an interchange with I-96 in Detroit. The trunkline passes between suburban residential subdivisions and along urban commercial areas while serving 17,200–68,800 vehicles on average each day.

    Grand River Avenue started as the path of an early wagon trail in the Michigan Territory, carrying settlers from Detroit inland along a route previously used by Native Americans. It was later a plank road that helped to connect Detroit with the state capital of Lansing and Grand Rapids. When the state highway system was signed in 1919, the avenue was numbered as part of M-16. Later it became US Highway 16 (US 16). Grand River Avenue was supposed to be the path for I-96 from Novi into downtown Detroit, and a section of freeway now used by M-5 was constructed as part of I-96 before the Interstate was rerouted to a different location. In the 1990s another section of freeway, which was originally proposed for a northern extension of I-275, was opened. This freeway called the Haggerty Connector was added to M-5. Additional projects have extended the highway farther north and added a roundabout to the northern terminus. A different highway was previously designated M-5 in another area of the state in the 1930s.

    The Ultimate Computer

    "The Ultimate Computer" is a season two episode of the original science fiction television series, Star Trek, first broadcast on March 8, 1968, and repeated June 28, 1968. It is episode No. 53, production No. 53, written by D.C. Fontana, based on a story by Laurence N. Wolfe, and directed by John Meredyth Lucas.

    In this episode, a skeleton Enterprise crew are assigned to test a revolutionary computer system that is given total control of the ship.

    Plot

    On stardate 4729.4, the Federation starship Enterprise is summoned to a space station without explanation. Commodore Wesley, commanding a group of starships from the USS Lexington, explains that the Enterprise will be a test vessel for a revolutionary tactical and control computer called the "M-5 Multitronic System", designed by the brilliant Dr. Richard Daystrom (who had also invented the TOS era computer systems after developing duotronics when he was 24 years old). The M-5 will handle all ship functions without human assistance. While Captain Kirk and Chief Medical Officer Dr. McCoy are unhappy about the test, Science Officer Spock is impressed with M-5. However, Kirk learns that four earlier prototypes were unsuccessful, giving him further doubts.

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