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Alliant may refer to: *Alliant Aviation, an American aircraft manufacturer based in Three Rivers, Michigan and later in Richland, Michigan **Alliant Destiny Fusion, an American powered parachute design **Alliant Destiny XLT, an American powered parachute design *Alliant Computer Systems, an American computer company that designed and manufactured parallel computing systems *Alliant Credit Union, a Chicago-based financial cooperative *Alliant Energy, an American public utility holding company that incorporated in Madison, Wisconsin in 1981 *Alliant Energy Center, an American multi-building complex in Madison, Wisconsin *Alliant Exchange, Inc, an American food service company *Alliantgroup, an American tax consulting services firm based in Houston, Texas *Alliant International University an American private, higher education institution based in San Diego, California *Alliant Techsystems, an American aerospace, defense, and sporting goods company based in Arlington County, Virginia **Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliant Aviation
Alliant Aviation LLC was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Three Rivers, Michigan and later in Richland, Michigan. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of powered parachutes in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles and the European Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight categories. None of the company's aircraft appear on the list of accepted American light-sport aircraft.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 81. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X Alliant was formed about 2003 as a restructuring of Destiny Powered Parachutes. The new company retained the same address in Three Rivers, Michigan for a time, before moving to nearby Richland, Michigan. Alliant was a limited liability company (LLC). The new company showed its first new aircraft, the Alliant Destiny Fusion at Sun 'n Fun, Lakeland, Florida in 2003. The Fusion featured an unusual s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliant Destiny Fusion
The Alliant Destiny Fusion is an American two-seat powered parachute, designed and produced by Alliant Aviation based at Richland, Michigan. Design and development The aircraft was designed to comply with the FAI Microlight rules. It features a parachute-style high-wing and two-seats in tandem in a semi-stressed fibreglass cockpit, tricycle landing gear and a single Rotax 503 engine in pusher configuration. Versions were also available with a Rotax 582 or Hirth 3701 The Hirth 3701 is an in-line three-cylinder, two-stroke, carburetted aircraft engine, with optional fuel injection, designed for use on ultralight aircraft and small homebuilts. It is manufactured by Hirth of Germany. Development The 3701 ... engine. Specifications (Rotax 503) References {{Alliant Aviation aircraft 2000s United States ultralight aircraft Single-engined pusher aircraft Powered parachutes Alliant aircraft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliant Destiny XLT
The Alliant Destiny XLT is an American two-seat powered parachute, designed and produced by Alliant Aviation based at Richland, Michigan. Design and development The aircraft was designed to comply with the FAI Microlight rules. It features a parachute-style high-wing and two-seats in tandem in an open frame, tricycle landing gear and a single Rotax 582 engine in pusher configuration. Versions were also available with a Rotax 503 or Hirth 3701 The Hirth 3701 is an in-line three-cylinder, two-stroke, carburetted aircraft engine, with optional fuel injection, designed for use on ultralight aircraft and small homebuilts. It is manufactured by Hirth of Germany. Development The 3701 ... engine. Variants ;ST :Single-seat variant ;LT :Two-seat lightweight variant ;XLT :Heavier two-seat variant Specifications (XLT with Rotax 582) References {{Alliant Aviation aircraft 2000s United States ultralight aircraft Single-engined pusher aircraft Powered parachutes Alli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliant Computer Systems
Alliant Computer Systems Corporation was a computer company that designed and manufactured parallel computing systems. Together with Pyramid Technology and Sequent Computer Systems, Alliant's machines pioneered the symmetric multiprocessing market. One of the more successful companies in the group, over 650 Alliant systems were produced over their lifetime. The company was hit by a series of financial problems and went bankrupt in 1992. History 1980s Alliant was founded, as Dataflow Systems, in May 1982 by Ron Gruner, Craig Mundie and Rich McAndrew to produce machines for scientific and engineering users who needed smaller, less costly machines than offerings from Cray Computer and similar high-end vendors. Machines that addressed this market segment later became known as minisupercomputers. At the time there was a huge gap on the price/performance curve as a highly configured VAX 11/780 had a performance of about a MIP and MegaFLOP for around $1M USD and a Cray-1S or Cray 1M o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliant Credit Union
Alliant Credit Union is a member-owned financial cooperative headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Alliant services employees, retirees, and members of qualifying organizations and their family members; any member of the Foster Care to Success; and individuals who live or work in a qualifying community and their family members. Founded in 1935, Alliant is the ninth largest credit union by asset size in the United States with $14 billion USD in assets, and serves more than 600,000 members nationwide. History On October 26, 1935, a small group of United Airlines employees organized a credit union. The credit union was founded as United Airlines Employees' Credit Union (UAECU), but in 2003, the name was changed to Alliant Credit Union. After 68 years as a single-sponsor credit union, the credit union diversified membership and by the end of 2003, offered services to 27 sponsor organizations and to individuals who lived and worked in 19 communities around O'Hare International Airport. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliant Energy
Alliant Energy is a public utility holding company headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, providing power in Iowa and Wisconsin. History Interstate Power and Light Company (IPL) expanded greatly in the late 1920s to include operations in Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Manitoba (Canada). One of the largest purchases in the late 1920s was the purchase of what became its northern Minnesota territory from the Wilbur Foshay interests. In the 1930s and 1940s, the effects of the Depression and passage of laws to regulate utility operations at the state and federal level had an effect on IPC as well as its neighbors. In Iowa, the legislature passed laws making it easier for cities to establish municipal utilities (and indeed, there are over 100 municipal utilities in Iowa today). By 1940, the state of Nebraska had passed laws that forced all investor-owned utilities in that state to sell their operations to one of several "public power distr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliant Energy Center
Alliant Energy Center (formerly Dane County Coliseum) is a multi-building complex located in unincorporated Madison, Wisconsin. It comprises of greenspace and includes the Exhibition Hall, the 10,000-seat Veterans Memorial Coliseum, the Willow Island and the Arena. After completing various stages of planning throughout 2013, it was announced on November 26 that Dane County would be awarding a $20.7 million contract to Miron Construction for the construction of two new multi-use pavilions at the Alliant Energy Center. The exhibition pavilions, which total 290,000 square feet, will be replacing the nine current agricultural barns. Construction began following the Midwest Horse Fair in April 2014 with completion set in time for the 2014 World Dairy Expo in late September. The Center welcomes more than one million people attending more than 500 events annually, ranging from local meetings and banquets to large sporting events and major concerts. Location The Alliant Energy Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliant Exchange, Inc
US Foods (formerly known as U.S. Foodservice) is an American foodservice distributor. With approximately $24 billion in annual revenue, US Foods was the 10th largest private company in America until its IPO. It was founded in August 1989. Many of the entities that make up US Foods were founded in the 19th century, including one that sold provisions to travelers heading west during the 1850s gold rush. US Foods offers more than 350,000 national brand products and its own "exclusive brand" items, ranging from fresh meats and produce to prepackaged and frozen foods. The company employs approximately 25,200 people in more than 60 locations nationwide and provides food and related products to more than 250,000 customers, including independent and multi-unit restaurants, healthcare and hospitality entities, government and educational institutions. The company is headquartered in Rosemont, Illinois, and is a publicly held company trading under the ticker symbol USFD on the New York St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliantgroup
alliantgroup is a national tax consulting services firm that works with CPA firms and their business clients to identify and claim available federal and state government-sponsored tax credits and incentives. History alliantgroup was founded in 2002 by Dhaval Jadav and Shane Frank. Prior to alliantgroup, Jadav was an employee of Deloitte & Touche and the Internal Revenue Service. Frank is a former lawyer. alliantgroup's founders noticed the lack of small and midsize businesses that were applying for the R&D tax credit that had been around since 1981, and began the firm in part to help more businesses take advantage of this type of credit. In 2014, alliantgroup moved its headquarters to a LEED Platinum certified building in Houston, Texas that was designed by Kirksey Architecture. As of 2015, the company had over 600 employees in total. In 2016, roughly 460 employees were working at its Houston branch. The firm has employed people of varying roles and responsibilities includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliant International University
Alliant International University, often called Alliant, is a private for-profit university with its main campus in San Diego and other campuses in California. It offers programs in six California campuses – in San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, Irvine, Sacramento, and Fresno. Its enrollment is approximately 4,000 students, of whom 95% are graduate students. History Alliant was formed in 2001 by the combination of two older institutions: the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) and United States International University (USIU). Like the institutions that it descended from, Alliant has its home campus in San Diego, California. Until 2007, USIU also had a Europe campus in a former public school in the UK, which was used as a site for many films, including the ''Harry Potter'' series. USIU is the descendant of the original Balboa School of Law founded by Leland Ghent Stanford as a private graduate institution, in 1924. The name was changed to Balboa Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliant Techsystems
Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK) was an American aerospace, defense, and sporting goods company with its headquarters in Arlington County, Virginia, in the United States. The company operated in 22 states, Puerto Rico, and other countries. ATK's revenue in the 2014 fiscal year was about US$4.78 billion. On April 29, 2014, ATK announced that it would spin off its Sporting Group and merge its Aerospace and Defense Groups with Orbital Sciences Corporation. The spinoff of the Sporting Group to create Vista Outdoor and the merger leading to the creation of Orbital ATK were completed on February 9, 2015; both companies began operations as separate entities on February 20, 2015. History ATK was launched as an independent company in 1990, when Honeywell spun off its defense businesses to shareholders. The former Honeywell businesses had supplied defense products and systems to the U.S. and its allies for 50 years, including the first electronic autopilot for B-17 aircraft's bomb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
