English military engineer and mathematician Benjamin Robins ( 1707 – 1751 ) invented a whirling arm apparatus to determine drag and did some of the first experiments in aviation theory.

Sir George Cayley ( 1773 – 1857 ) also used a whirling arm to measure the drag and lift of various airfoils.

The Reach Cast involves casting the fly over flowing water, such as a stream, and then just before the fly lands, moving the arm and fly rod in the upstream direction to arrange the fishing line so that it produces less apparent drag in the water.

is a suicidal forbidden Sealing Jutsu where the user summons an entity called the behind him, thrusting its arm through the user's chest to grab the soul of the target and drag it into the user's body.

An arm drag performed where the attacking wrestler grabs an opponent's arm, runs up the corner ring ropes and springboards, usually off the top rope, over the opponent.

This arm drag sees the wrestler being held in a wheelbarrow hold by the opponent, and then going for an over the shoulder arm drag as he frees his legs off the opponent's waist.

The move can be described as an arm drag as a wheelbarrow counter.

A riot ensued when a drag queen threw the contents of a cup of coffee in the face of a police officer in response to the officer's grabbing of her arm.

For example, Anne could drag steel girders that theoretically weighed a ton or more, and swing them around or toss them several feet with little difficulty, but could not use this same arm to pull herself over a high embankment.

Since the torque is the cross-product of the drag force magnitude and the moment arm, torque can be maximized without increasing drag force by increasing the moment arm.

It was elegantly simple, with just three links holding the wheel in place-the strut itself, the single-piece transverse lower arm, and the anti-roll bar that doubled as a drag link for the wheel hub.

:* Springboard arm drag

** Double arm drag transitioned into a backbreaker

The Pitman arm is supported by the sector shaft and supports the drag link or center link with a ball joint.

This was also a corpse -- a male, judging from the coral arm bands, the tribal scars still discernible on the maggoty face, the painted bone of the warrior caste which still pierced the septum of the rotting nose.

The following items may be specified in actual or symbolic form in the operands of those instructions which refer to the particular items: channel, unit, combined channel and unit, combined arm and file, unit record synchronizers, inquiry synchronizers, and alteration switches.

The famous Apollo of Mantua and its variants are early forms of the Apollo Citharoedus statue type, in which the god holds the cithara in his left arm.

The Apollo held the cythara against his extended left arm, of which in the Louvre example, a fragment of one twisting scrolling horn upright remains against his biceps.

Their therapy consisted of constraint-induced movement therapy which resulted in improvements of their arm function.

Renan's head was turned away from the building, while Athena, beside him, was depicted raising her arm, which was interpreted as indicating a challenge to the church during an anti-clerical phase in French official culture.

In 1857, on a return trip from Washington, his train derailed causing serious damage to his right arm which would plague him in the future.

However, the energy must be imparted over a limited distance ( determined by arm length ) and therefore ( because the projectile is accelerating ) over a limited time, so the limiting factor is not work but rather power, which determined how much energy can be added in the limited time available.

The facility is also home to The Raider Image, the merchandise arm of the franchise, which the public can visit.

Lara suffered a fractured arm against the Leeward Islands in St Maarten on 19 January, which kept him out of the ICL season.

In 1913, the Conservative Movement founded its congregational arm, the United Synagogue of America, which would later become the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.

* Crank ( mechanism ), in mechanical engineering, a bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it

The nearest CND has come to having an electoral arm was the Independent Nuclear Disarmament Election Campaign ( INDEC ) which stood candidates in a few local elections during the 1960s.

In many modern armies, the term cavalry is still often used to refer to units that are a combat arm of the armed forces which in the past filled the traditional horse-borne land combat light cavalry roles.

It has a telescoping crane arm which can lift between 5 and 11 metric tons and utilizes a pincers for uprooting trees.

* Vash the Stampede from Trigun has a prosthetic left arm, which he acquired after his brother Millions Knives shot it off.

His robotic parts include an eye with enhanced vision, an arm with tools and weapons stored inside, a leg which stores a mini cannon, and a device where his ear should be.

With the third-party funds, North created an organization called " The Enterprise " which served as the secret arm of the NSC staff and had its own airplanes, pilots, airfield, ship, operatives and secret Swiss bank accounts.

Rogers, having relinquished his regular shield to Barnes, carried a variant of the energy shield which can be used with either arm, and used to either block attacks or as an improvised offensive weapon able to cut through metal with relative ease.

When one arm is moved up and the other is moved down ( like turning a big steering wheel ), the body reacts by tilting to the side, which then begins the twisting rotation.

At the completion of the required number of twist rotations, the arm motion is reversed ( the steering wheel is turned back ), which removes the body's tilt and stops the twisting rotation.

Conservation of angular momentum in the Earth-Moon system requires that the angular momentum lost by the Earth due to tidal friction be transferred to the Moon, increasing its angular momentum, which means that its moment arm ( its distance from the Earth ) is increased ( for the time being about + 3. 8 cm / year ), which via Kepler's laws of planetary motion causes the Moon to revolve around the Earth at a slower rate.

Marat's body was to be placed upon a Roman bed, his wound displayed and his right arm extended holding the pen which he had used to defend the Republic and its people.

In Canadian football, if the passer drops the ball while his arm is moving forward it is an incomplete pass ( unless someone catches the ball before it hits the ground in which case it is a completed pass or an interception ).

At Kurtz's station Marlow sees a man on the river-bank waving his arm, urging them to land.

Mike sees the needle tracks on his arm, a sign of drug abuse.

He guards his stables and sees a mysterious clawed beast coming to take the foal ; Teyrnon cuts off the beast's arm and found the child outside the stable.

With Random and Ganelon watching him from mount Kolvir, he ascends to Tir-na Nog ' th, and in the throne room sees Dara as queen, flanked by Benedict wearing a metallic arm.

: Your letter of yesterday is received & I hasten to answer as fully as I can -- Joseph Smith Jr first come to my notice in the year 1824 in the summer of that year I contracted with his father to build a fence on my property in the corse of that work I approach Joseph & ask how it is in a half day you put up what requires your father & 2 brothers a full day working together he says I have not been with out assistance but can not say more only you better find out the next day I take the older Smith by the arm & he says Joseph can see any thing he wishes by looking at a stone Joseph often sees Spirits here with great kettles of coin money it was Spirits who brought up rock because Joseph made no attempt on their money I latter dream I converse with spirits which let me count their money when I awake I have in my hand a dollar coin which I take for a sign Joseph describes what I seen in every particular says he the spirits are grieved so I through back the dollar in the fall of the year 1827 I hear Joseph found a gold bible I take Joseph aside & he says it is true I found it 4 years ago with my stone but only just got it because of the enchantment the old spirit come to me 3 times in the same dream & says dig up the gold but when I take it up the next morning the spirit transfigured himself from a white salamander in the bottom of the hole & struck me 3 times & held the treasure & would not let me have it because I lay it down to cover over the hole when the spirit says do not lay it down Joseph says when can I have it the spirit says one year from to day if you obay me look to the stone after a few days he looks the spirit says bring your brother Alvin Joseph says he is dead shall I bring what remains but the spirit is gone Joseph goes to get the gold bible but the spirit says you did not bring your brother you can not have it look to the stone Joseph looks but can not see who to bring the spirit says I tricked you again look to the stone Joseph looks & sees his wife on the 22d day of Sept 1827 they get the gold bible -- I give Joseph $ 50 to move him down to Pa Joseph says when you visit me I will give you a sign he gives me some hiroglyphics I take then to Utica Albany & New York in the last place Dr Mitchel gives me an introduction to Professor Anthon says he they are short hand Egyption the same what was used in ancient times bring me the old book & I will translate says I it is made of precious gold & is sealed from view says he I can not read a sealed book -- Joseph found some giant silver specticles with the plates he puts them in an old hat & in the darkness reads the words & in this way it is all translated & written down -- about the middle of June 1829 Joseph takes me together with Oliver Cowdery & David Whitmer to have a view of the plates our names are appended to the book of Mormon which I had printed with my own money -- space and time both prevent me from writing more at present if there is any thing further you wish to inquire I shall attend to it

This move sees the attacker kneel behind a sitting opponent and wrap around one arm under the opponent's chin and lock his / her hands.

The Japanese naval air arm sees no further combat during World War I.

A swinging variation of the normal fisherman suplex, this move sees a wrestler, with their opponent in a front facelock with the near arm draped over their shoulder, hook the opponent's near leg with their free arm and roll over to one side, flipping the opponent over onto their back.

A front facelock suplex, which sees the attacker apply a front face lock to his / her opponent, draping the opponent's near arm over his / her shoulder, the attacker stomps down hard and suplexes the opponent stiffly, resulting in a quicker throw.

Also called a suplex driver or a falcon arrow, this sees an attacker apply a front facelock to the opponent and drapes the opponent's near arm over their shoulder.

Also called a front suplex or a gourdbuster, this move sees attacker apply a front face lock to the opponent and drape the opponent's near arm over his / her shoulder.

Also known as a reverse suplex & sometimes classified as a type of cutter, this move sees the attacker stands behind an opponent and applies an inverted facelock with one arm, and uses the other arm to aid in elevating the opponent so that he / she is lifted and held upside-down before the attacker falls to his back driving the opponent down to the mat face first, behind the attacker.

Alex walks out of the fire and sees an arm hanging out of the rubble with the scar on it.

Alex then sees Walsh's body hanging from the ceiling, his arm cut off.

Another variation of this move sees the executor use their whole arm as a lariat instead of just the elbow.

One variation of the stomp sees a wrestler perform a series of stomps all over the body of a fallen opponent in the order of left arm, left chest, left stomach, left upper leg, left lower leg, right lower leg, right upper leg, right stomach, right chest, right arm, and finally the jaw.

A shoulder block sees a wrestler strike an opponent with their shoulder usually ramming their shoulder, by keeping their arm down by their side, into the opponent's shoulder or abdomen of an opponent running towards them.