V-1 flying bomb
... abbreviation of Flakzielgerät (anti-aircraft cannon target device), a misleading name. The V-1 was ... warhead. The missile was a relatively simple device with a fuselage constructed mainly of sheet ... and aft feedback linking these and the device's attitude to control its pitch (damped ... an explosion, although not always with the device buried deep enough to increase the effect ... in disguising the true nature of this device, and it was some time before ...
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Talk:United States Marine Corps
... Customes_Traditions/Emblem_Seal.htm says In 1776, the device consisted of a "foul anchor" of silver ... eagle to measure 3 ½ inches from wingtip to wingtip. : The emblem recommended by this board [in ... spread eagle. On the emblem itself, the device is topped by a ribbon inscribed with ... very top and very bottom of the device, as opposed to somewhat closer as ...
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Helicopter
... from the shaft, but from its own wingtip jet nozzles, which are either pressurized from ... assisted though use of a haul-down device that involves attachment of a cable to ... the aircraft to the flight deck. This device was pioneered by the Royal Canadian Navy ... The U.S. Navy implementation of this device, based on Beartrap, is called the "RAST ... A secondary purpose of the haul-down device is to equalize electrostatic potential between ...
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Talk:Winglet
... Solipsist 09:55, 29 September 2005 (UTC) Wingtip devices I would like to suggest renaming this article to Wingtip device and include raked wingtips and wingtip fences, which are all intended to fulfill ...
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Ludwig Prandtl
... when he had to design a suction device. After carrying out some experiments, he came up with a new device that worked well and used less power than the device he replaced. Ludwig Prandtl 1904 with his ... on the nature of induced drag and wingtip vortexes, which had previously been ignored. With ...
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Klingon starships
... boom, and wing-like secondary hull with wingtip-mounted warp nacelles. Jefferies wanted to emulate ... Throughout DS9 it also had a cloaking device, like all of the other Klingon warships ... design to be equipped with a cloaking device and was armed with both disruptors and ... The ship was destroyed by a thalmerite device; the first officer, Hon'Tihl was the ...
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Airbus A380
... by its own keyboard and control cursor device mounted in the foldable table in front ... ICAO. [6] Wake turbulence All aircraft produce wingtip vortices during flight, contributing to wake turbulence ... Research in the 1970s demonstrated that some wingtip vortex control concepts (winglets, for example), while ... phase. Though it is not clear whether wingtip fences were ever tested, this research (and ...
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Talk:Lift (force)
... are referring to the component of the wingtip vortices that is oriented perpendicularly to the ... a wing "Downwash"(nothing to do with wingtip vortices). I would also insist that ALL ... we think of a wing as a device to create artificial buoyancy, perhaps the analysis ... in those diagrams wake-downwash and the wingtip trailing vortices cannot exist. And THAT'S ...
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Radiocompass   (translated from German)
... of the antenna system. Receiver and control device Depending upon equipment manufacturer are the long ... the transmitter (NDB), adjusted in the control device. The point of the needle interprets, turning ... a fernkompasses, which sits in the airplane wingtip. It concerns thus a course indicator, which ...
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Modern US Target Drones
... a wide range of combat aircraft; and wingtip thermal flares, which cause heat-seeking missiles ... was a small delta-winged drone with wingtip fins and a liquid rocket motor, originally ... an infrared source, or a laser scoring device to allow trainees to shoot at the ...
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