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The new rules permit experimental technology such as rotating wing masts – which are most commonly found on high-performance catamarans – light weight materials such as carbon fiber and epoxy resins, along with more established technologies like water ballast, swing keels, and asymmetric spinnakers.
The 20th Maine charged down the hill, with the left wing wheeling continually to make the charging line swing like a hinge, thus creating a simultaneous frontal assault and flanking maneuver, capturing 101 of the Confederate soldiers and successfully saving the flank.
A variable-sweep wing, colloquially known as a " swing wing ", is an aeroplane wing that may be swept back and then returned to its original position during flight.
Notable swing man ( also known as wing players ) include Evan Turner, Stephen Jackson, and Tracy McGrady.
In severe cases ( particularly if the ground surface is soft ), the inside wing can dig in, causing the aircraft to swing violently or even cartwheel.
Unwilling to take advantage of Vedel's presence to engage in a trial of strength with Castaños — a successful attack on the Arjonilla might have turned the Spanish line in return and allowed Dupont to swing across the rear of Coupigny and Reding — Dupont hunkered down at Andújar and ordered Vedel's weary division back to Bailén to prevent the collapse of the right wing.

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Renard and German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz explored the wing loading ( weight to wing-area ratio ) of birds, eventually concluding that humans could not fly under their own power by attaching wings onto their arms.
At high speeds the ailerons could apply more torque than the Spitfire's thin wings could handle, and the entire wing would twist in the opposite direction.
It was discontinued as a rank in these services during the postwar period, but as an appointment, the title " commodore " was then used to identify senior U. S. Navy captains who commanded squadrons of more than one vessel or functional air wings or air groups that were not part of a carrier air wing or air group.
The wings were only in length and the longest wing feathers were only long.
The name refers to the heavy wings of the insects, and is derived from the Ancient Greek ὑμήν ( hymen ): membrane and πτερόν ( pteron ): wing.
Pileateds normally have no white on the trailing edges of their wings and when perched normally show only a small patch of white on each side of the body near the edge of the wing.
A large woodpecker was videotaped on 25 April 2004 ; its size, wing pattern at rest and in flight, and white plumage on its back between the wings were cited as evidence that the woodpecker sighted was an Ivory-billed Woodpecker.
The Kuomintang had a left wing and a right wing, the left being more radical in its pro Soviet policies, but both wings equally persecuted merchants, accusing them of being counterrevolutionaries and reactionaries.
Jagdgeschwader ( Fighter wings ) ( JG ) was a fighter Geschwader ( literally " hunting wing "), typically equipped with Bf 109 or Fw 190 aircraft flying in the fighter or fighter-bomber roles.
Lift is commonly associated with the wing of a fixed-wing aircraft, although lift is also generated by propellers, kites, helicopter rotors, rudders, sails and keels on sailboats, hydrofoils, wings on auto racing cars, wind turbines and other streamlined objects.
The wings reach a span of about 2 metres ( 6. 6 ft ), with the wing chord measurement of being around the same size as those of the largest flying birds.
The wings were long, and the wing membranes appear to have lacked the furry covering of pycnofibres present in some other pterosaurs ( such as Pterorhynchus and Jeholopterus ).
While most of a Pteranodon flight would have depended on soaring, like long-winged seabirds, it probably required an occasional active, rapid burst of flapping, and studies of Pteranodon wing loading ( the strength of the wings vs. the weight of the body ) indicate that they were capable of substantial flapping flight, contrary to some earlier suggestions that they were so big they could only glide.
The Capitol building is marked by its central dome above a rotunda and two wings, one for each chamber of Congress: the north wing is the Senate chamber and the south wing is the House of Representatives chamber.
In resolving economic policy issues, he had to manage the conflict between two wings of his party, the agrarian wing led by Bryan and the pro-business wing.
A laughing gull with its wings extended in the gull wing profile
Usually, aircraft wings have various devices, such as flaps or slats that the pilot uses to modify the shape and surface area of the wing to change its operating characteristics in flight.
The concept of wild type is useful in some experimental organisms such as fruit flies Drosophila melanogaster, in which the standard phenotypes for features such as eye color or shape and wing form are known to be altered by particular gene mutations that produce distinctive phenotypes, such as " apricot " " bar eyes " or " vestigial wings ".
Although the rule still applies, the visible fuselage " waisting " can only be seen on a few aircraft, such as the B-1B Lancer, Learjet 60, and the Tupolev Tu-160 ' Blackjack ' — the same effect is now achieved by careful positioning of aircraft components, like the boosters and cargo bay on rockets ; the jet engines in front of ( and not directly below ) the wings of the Airbus A380 ; the jet engines behind ( and not purely at the side of ) the fuselage of a Cessna Citation X ; the shape and location of the canopy on the F-22 Raptor ; and the image of the Airbus A380 above showing obvious area rule shaping at the wing root, which is practically invisible from any other angle.

wing and allow
While the greatest players of the time, among them Alekhine, Emanuel Lasker and Capablanca, clearly did not allow their play to be hobbled by blind adherence to general concepts that the center had to be controlled by pawns, that development had to happen in support of this control, that rooks always belong on open files, that wing openings were unsound — core ideas of Tarrasch's chess philosophy as popularly understood — beginners were taught to think of these generalizations as unalterable principles.
Ex-Legionnaire Ferreira, along with the cívico ( civic ) wing of the Liberals, joined the government of Egusquiza, who left office in 1898, to allow a civilian, Emilio Aceval, to become president.
The controls may allow full or partial automation of flight, such as an autopilot, a wing leveler, or a flight management system.
With the help of the patchwork girl Scraps, Bungle the Glass Cat ( another of Dr. Pipt's creations ), the Woozy, Dorothy, the Shaggy Man, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman, Ojo gathers all of these supplies but the left wingthe Tin Woodman will not allow any living thing to be killed, even to save another's life.
Spoilers ( sometimes called lift dumpers ), however, are devices that are intentionally deployed to create a carefully controlled flow separation over part of an aircraft's wing to reduce the lift it generates, increase the drag, and allow the aircraft to descend more rapidly without gaining speed.
Perceiving the danger, three officers ( of noble rank ) stood shoulder-to-shoulder to allow their own troops to pass and block the passage of the enemy: Spurius Lartius and Titus Herminius Aquilinus, commanders of the right wing ( equivalent to colonels or lieutenant generals ), and Publius Horatius, a more junior officer of unspecified rank.
Lesley had a large wing added in 1870 to allow the kitchens to be relocated from the basement.
In the Battle of Zama ( 202 ) ( near modern-day Maktar, Tunisia ) Masinissa commanded the cavalry ( 6, 000 Numidian and 3, 000 Roman ) on Scipio's right wing, Scipio delayed the engagement for long enough to allow for Masinissa to join him.
It was built as an extension to the uncompleted east wing of Tree Court and was designed to allow maximum luminosity and energy efficiency.
Swallows have adapted to hunting insects on the wing by developing a slender streamlined body and long pointed wings, which allow great maneuverability and endurance, as well as frequent periods of gliding.
Their first attempt to improve the F-5 was the N-300, which featured much more powerful engines and moved the wing to a higher position to allow for increased ordnance that the higher power allowed.
The N-300 was further developed into the P-530 with even larger engines, this time featuring a small amount of " bypass " ( turbofan ) to improve cooling and allow the engine bay to be lighter, as well as much more wing surface.
Their heavier wing loadings, in comparison with surface-feeding procellariids, allow these shearwaters to achieve considerable depths below in the case of the Short-tailed Shearwater ).
He noticed that the detachment of the shock wave over the blunt leading edges of the wings of the Armstrong-Whitworth design would allow the air on the bottom of the craft to flow spanwise and escape to the upper part of the wing through the gap between the leading edge and the detached shock wave.
Their flight muscles are rather small to allow for the small cross section required for plunge-diving, and thus their wing loading is high.
The main change was reducing the wing span of the missile to allow it to be carried within the aircraft.
Some main gear struts on World War II aircraft, in order to allow a single-leg main gear to more efficiently store the wheel within either the wing or an engine nacelle, rotated the single gear strut through a 90 ° angle during the rearwards-retraction sequence to allow the main wheel to rest " flat " above the lower end of the main gear strut, or flush within the wing, when fully retracted.
On second generation Harriers, the wing is extended past the outrigger wheels to allow greater wing-mounted munition loads to be carried.
Thompson Hall, home of the sciences at the university, underwent a major renovation, including the construction of a new wing ( Harned Hall, completed 2006 ) on the building's western side against Union Avenue and extensive renovations to the current wings and courtyard to allow for upgraded labs and facilities.
One unusual feature was an offset wing design, with the right wing root attaching to the wing's tilted center section ( elevated above the fuselage, as on all parasol-wing designs ) and lower than the left wing root, to allow the wings to be quickly folded up.

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