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  • Thumbnail for Sinking ships for wreck diving sites
    Sinking ships for wreck diving sites is the practice of scuttling old ships to produce artificial reefs suitable for wreck diving, to benefit from commercial...
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  • Thumbnail for Dead centre (engineering)
    In a reciprocating engine, the dead centre is the position of a piston in which it is either farthest from, or nearest to, the crankshaft. The former is...
    7 KB (989 words) - 15:31, 21 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for 186th Air Refueling Wing
    The 186th Air Refueling Wing is a unit of the Mississippi Air National Guard stationed at Meridian Regional Airport, Mississippi. The 153d Air Refueling...
    11 KB (1,141 words) - 18:39, 20 December 2022
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    USS Lowry (DD-770), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Reigart Bolivar Lowry, who served in...
    11 KB (1,257 words) - 15:51, 9 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base
    Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base (IATA: XIJ, ICAO: OKAJ) is a Kuwait Air Force base that is home to 3 Kuwait Air Force F/A-18 C/D squadrons: 9 Squadron, 25 Squadron...
    13 KB (1,010 words) - 01:17, 21 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Spanish cruiser Vizcaya
    Vizcaya was an Infanta Maria Teresa-class armored cruiser of the Spanish Navy that fought at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish–American...
    14 KB (1,548 words) - 13:52, 24 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Nishitetsu Amagi Line
    The Nishitetsu Amagi Line (西鉄甘木線, Nishitetsu Amagi-sen) is a Japanese railway line operated by the private railway operator Nishi-Nippon Railroad (Nishitetsu)...
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  • USCGC Point Judith (WPB-82345) was an 82-foot (25 m) Point class cutter constructed at the J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. yards at Tacoma, Washington...
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  • John Greenwood (born 1788, died 1851), transport entrepreneur, was the keeper of a toll-gate in Pendleton on the Manchester to Liverpool turnpike.[citation...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Flint (CL-97)
    USS Flint (CL-97) was a modified Atlanta-class light cruiser, sometimes referred to as an "Oakland-class". She was named after the city of Flint, Michigan...
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    Kugelfischer injection (also called System Kugelfischer) is the name for a mechanical fuel injection (MFI) pump. It was produced by FAG Kugelfischer and...
    3 KB (317 words) - 12:28, 17 December 2021
  • Croman Corporation is a helicopter operating company based in White City, Oregon, United States. These helicopters are used in Heli-logging, fire suppression...
    2 KB (117 words) - 21:10, 2 December 2020
  • Variable valve timing (VVT) is a system for varying the valve opening of an internal combustion engine. This allows the engine to deliver high power, but...
    7 KB (888 words) - 00:52, 25 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for Enhanced motion vehicle
    An enhanced motion vehicle, or EMV, is a ride vehicle developed by Walt Disney Imagineering, a component of The Walt Disney Company, for use in amusement...
    13 KB (1,836 words) - 01:48, 7 June 2021
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    51°30′35″N 0°05′33″W / 51.5096°N 0.0924°W / 51.5096; -0.0924 The Little Ship Club is a yacht club in London. It was founded in 1926 by a group of yachtsmen...
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  • Walter E. Mooney (June 6, 1925 – March 1, 1990) was a MIT educated engineer, aircraft designer, pilot and model aircraft designer who lived in San Diego...
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  • Thumbnail for Glenluce railway station
    Glenluce station was a station open in 1862 on the former Port Road that was constructed on the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway.[page needed]...
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  • Skynet.Aero (Russian: Авиакомпания «Скайнет» – Aviakompaniya “Skaynet”) is a regional airline based at the Krasnoyarsk Airport. The airline makes regular...
    3 KB (182 words) - 21:25, 11 August 2021
  • The Dragonfly is a failed crowdfunding project that was to build a miniaturized four-winged ornithopter UAV designed by TechJect. The Dragonfly supposedly...
    7 KB (786 words) - 10:57, 12 March 2023
  • Simon Cox is a British car designer known for the Isuzu Vehicross, Cadillac Cien, Cadillac Converj, and the Opel Speedster. He was sponsored by Ford Motor...
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