* Contour Aerospace, a seat and aircraft fittings builder

For Zodiac, this first major international diversification — strengthened by the purchase of Pioneer ( 1988 ), Weber Aircraft LLC ( 1992 ), Sicma Aero Seat, and Contour Aerospace ( 2011 )— heralded the start of a new entrepreneurial adventure.

1998 – 2000 Ford Contour SVTAlso included with the SVT Contour was new bodywork, seats and trim, white-faced gauges, larger wheels with ultra high performance tires, upgraded brakes and a retuned suspension.

* Mystique's interior also received new fabric choices ( leather seating, previously optional, became standard on LS models ) and faux wood trim to make it more upscale than the Contour.

In the early 1990s, Ford chose to develop a new platform for the aforementioned Contour rather than redesign the Tempo in the mid 1990s to meet new safety standards ( dual airbags, etc .).

Ford has also added an SVT version for the Contour, which utilized a specially tuned and modified version of the 2. 5 L V6 that produced ( 1998 MY ) / ( 1999 / 2000 MY ) and was only available with a 5-speed manual transmission.

Production ended for the Mystique on December 23, 1999 but Contour production continued into late fall of 2000 to support rental fleets.

* The last Ford Contour rolled off the assembly line on October 19, 2000

The initial generation of the Mondeo was developed as a " world car ", along with North American models marketed as the Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique until 2000, and as the Ford Fusion from model year 2013 and on.

In this image, red lines are Contour line # Temperature and related subjects | isotherms, solid green lines are the potential temperature, and dashed green lines are the equivalent potential temperature ; these three all use the temperature scale at the horizontal 1000 mb level near the bottom.

Some people considered it a failure, however, as many of the resulting products ( like the Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique designs based on the European Ford Mondeo platform ), were not very competitive in the American market in the long term, and the major restructuring was disruptive to the company.

Contour plot of the Electrostatics # Electrostatic potential | electrostatic potential of a horizontally oriented electrical dipole of finite size.

Shown as a colored Contour line | contour plot is the z-component of the field.

Contour ploughing mitigates soil erosion by ploughing across a slope, along elevation lines.

Contour and pattern are more in the province of the linear artists, while dynamism is the most common trait of painterly works.

This screenshot is of a structure map generated by Contour map software for an 8500ft deep gas & Oil reservoir in the Erath field, Vermilion Parish, Erath, Louisiana.

* Discussion of Emperor Jones from Travus Bogard's book Contour in Time, on O ' Neill.

Boundary for 20 ° C Contour line | isotherms.

For example, some of Raquel Welch's titles included " Maid of San Diego County ", " Maid of California " " Miss Photogenic " and " Miss Contour.

This caused many major sites such as the Warwick Mall, Contour Dental Laboratories, and the CLCF Building to be shut down and repaired.

* Functions are easy to produce, visualize and interpret, due to the pictorial nature of the graph of a function ( i. e. curves, Contour lines, and surfaces ).

Contour canals require only a small water supply since no water is lost to locks, but this method of construction would make the canal longer than it need have been.

* Contour powder / creams, used to define the face.

Figure 2: Contour map of Figure 1.

#* Contour slope – describes the tendency of the frequency change over time, it can be rising, falling or level.

* Deutsch, D. Hamaoui, K. Henthorn, T. The Glissando Illusion: A Spatial Illusory Contour in Hearing.

The Ford Contour, and its sister, the Mercury Mystique, were compact cars that were derived from the first-generation, globally marketed Ford Mondeo.

The Contour and Mystique replaced the Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz in the U. S., and were based on Ford's CDW27 platform.

Development of the European Mondeo and its derivatives, the Contour and Mystique, was a major project for Ford Motor Company.

Initially, three trim levels were available for the Contour a base GL, a more luxurious LX and a sporty SE.

From the 1930s when de Havilland opened a factory until the 1990s when British Aerospace closed, Hatfield was associated with aircraft design and manufacture, which employed more people than any other industry.

Later that year, the University opened a new Institute of Aerodynamics ( now the Institute for Aerospace Studies ) under the direction of Dr Gordon Patterson.

* The University of Texas at Arlington ( where Chawla obtained a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering in 1984 ) opened a dormitory named in her honor, Kalpana Chawla Hall, in 2004.

Soon after it opened, the sheltered private location attracted early aviators and aeroplane designers such as Roe and Sopwith and the centre of the track soon became one of Britain's first aerodromes and later played a major part in aviation worldwide during much of the 20th century, most notably with the British Aerospace, British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker, Sopwith and Vickers aircraft companies.

BCIT opened a new Aerospace Technology Campus in 2007, at the gateway to Vancouver International Airport for its aerospace programs.

Training is conducted at the Aerospace Technology Campus, opened in September 2007.

Ent Air Force Base ( named for Major General Uzal Girard Ent, commander of the Ninth Air Force during World War II ) was a United States Air Force facility opened in 1951 on the site of a closed sanatorium in conjunction with the move of the United States Air Force's Air Defense Command, later Aerospace Defense Command ( ADC ), to Colorado Springs, Colorado.

On 1 May 1976, the Cosford Aerospace Museum was opened at RAF Cosford, one of the RAF stations which had been used to store the museum's collection of aircraft.

Further Dash 8s were acquired as the airline became successful and British Aerospace 146 jets were introduced as routes opened up in Canada and the USA.

Eclipse Aerospace was confirmed as the new owner of the assets of the former Eclipse Aviation on 20 August 2009 and opened for business on 1 September 2009.

His accomplishments from 1989 to 1992 included testing the F / A-18 and A-7 aircraft ; performing research work with NASA on pitch control margin simulation and flight ; completing the first military flight of F / A-18 enhanced performance engines ; piloting the first flight test of the National Aerospace Plane external burning hydrogen propulsion engine ; developing a new handling qualities rating scale for high angle-of-attack test ; and participating in the F / A-18 out-of-control recovery test program.

With the new role and the addition of missiles, the 92d Bomb Wing was re-designated the 92d Strategic Aerospace Wing.

Apprenticeship programs such as the Aerospace Joint Apprenticeship Council ( AJAC ) work in collaboration with Washington state aerospace employers and community colleges to train new manufacturing employees to keep the industry supplied.

In 1990 ownership of the airport was privatised, with British Aerospace taking a 76 % shareholding in the new company.

In 2003, the assets of Fairchild were purchased by M7 Aerospace and the new company was relocated to San Antonio.

In 1988 it was renamed the Royal Aerospace Establishment before merging with other research entities to become part of the new Defence Research Agency in 1991.

BMW had acquired the Rover Group from British Aerospace in 1994 and had since sold the Land Rover business to Ford, and split-off the MINI business as a new BMW subsidiary based in Cowley.

The Autonomous University of Baja California and CETYS, a private not-for-profit university located in Mexicali, have started new programs such as Aerospace Engineering, Semiconductors and Microelectronics Engineering, Renewable Energy Engineering, Bioengineering, History and Sociology to prepare the required human capital for potential high-tech firms.

More recently the branding has been dropped, and new projects from all of Bombardier's various aircraft divisions are now known simply as Bombardier Aerospace.

In 1948 Hughes created a new division of the company, the Aerospace Group.

Although China's space program has existed since 1956, CNSA is a relatively new agency created in 1993 when the Ministry of Aerospace Industry was split into CNSA and the China Aerospace Corporation ( CASC ).

Aerospace companies, like Boeing and Beechcraft, used transparencies for years in management meetings in order to brief engineers and relevant personnel about new aircraft designs and changes to existing designs, as well as bring up illustrated problems.

Armadillo Aerospace, Masten Space Systems, PlanetSpace, Rocketplane Limited, Inc., and XCOR Aerospace pledged flights to the new Teachers in Space project.

On 23 July 1999, CFB Cold Lake ( Alberta ) Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment named its new facility, the " Żurakowski Building ", and in September 2000, he became an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test pilots, joining the ranks of Charles Lindbergh, Neil Armstrong, and Igor Sikorsky, among numerous other luminaries.

Activation of the Continental United States North American Aerospace Defense Regions on 1 October 1986, resulted in a new structure for the 30-year-old, binational North American Aerospace Defense Command ( NORAD ).

As part of ADCOM's new emphasis on defenses against the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile ( ICBM ) and Submarine-launched ballistic missile ( SLBMs ), the mission of the 14th Aerospace Force it was responsible for detecting foreign missile launches, tracking missiles and satellites in space, providing space vehicle launch services, maintaining a satellite data base of all man-made objects in space and performing anti-satellite action.

The project is a combination of two separate missile defense efforts: the Aerospace Relay Mirror System and a new, high-altitude airship.

Also in this year, the company ’ s name changed to Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. to reflect its worldwide scope, and a new plane, the Gulfstream IV, was conceived.

British Aerospace had previously sought to merge its missile business with Thomson-CSF, the companies announced their plan to create a new combined company called Eurodynamics in 1989.