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    An oil platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, etc.) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process...
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    In aviation, the term tractor configuration refers to an aircraft constructed in the standard configuration with its engine mounted with the propeller...
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    Soyuz 7 (Russian: Союз 7, Union 7) was part of an October, 1969, joint mission with Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 8 that saw three Soyuz spacecraft in orbit together...
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    Soyuz 8 (Russian: Союз 8, Union 8) was part of an October, 1969, joint mission with Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 7 that saw three Soyuz spacecraft in orbit together...
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  • ACDelco is an American automotive parts brand owned by General Motors (GM). Factory parts for vehicles manufactured by GM are consolidated under the ACDelco...
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    USS Stephen W. Groves (FFG-29), twenty-first ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry-class of guided missile frigates, was named for Ensign Stephen W. Groves (1917–1942)...
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  • The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) traces its history back to the Imperial Conference held in London in 1911, where it was decided aviation should be...
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    The Swiks (or Swix) was a three-masted schooner from Åland that sank in the Baltic Sea, off the island of Öland, Sweden, on 21 December 1926. Swiks was...
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    HMCS Micmac was a Tribal-class destroyer which served the Royal Canadian Navy from 1945 to 1964. Micmac was the first modern, high-performance warship...
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    The Kaohsiung Fisherman's Wharf (also Fishermen's Wharf, Chinese: 高雄港漁人碼頭; pinyin: Gāoxiónggǎng Yúrén Mǎtóu) was a wharf in Gushan District, Kaohsiung...
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  • Self-steering gear is equipment used on sail boats to maintain a chosen course or point of sail without constant human action. Mechanical or "wind vane"...
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  • Frank Miller (October 2, 1898 – December 3, 1949) was an American cartoonist. Born in Sheldon, Iowa, Miller was most famous for his comic strip Barney...
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    The Entpannungspanzer 65 (EntpPz 65) is a Swiss armored recovery vehicle developed by Eidgenoessische Konstruktionswerkstaette Thun in the late 1960s....
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    AeroGroup is an American private commercial company that offers military aircraft training. It was the first private commercial company to operate F-16...
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  • The Centrair 201 Marianne is a training glider seating two in tandem, designed and built in France in the 1980s. It was intended to replace the numerous...
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  • Dennis Kestell Yorath, MBE (April 30, 1905 – May 8, 1981) was an aviator and business executive who was a Member of the Order of the British Empire for...
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  • The International Radio Controlled Helicopter Association (IRCHA) is an organization created by radio control helicopter pilots. IRCHA works to promote...
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  • Diamond V–Eight (or DV8)[citation needed] is a city operation transport company in the Philippines and wholly owned by Villegas Group of Buses. It was...
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  • Operating capacity, or rated operating capacity (ROC), has to do with the calculated tipping load. The capacity (load) that one can safely pick-up and...
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