The gap between the turret and hull was sealed with an inflatable hose while the main gun mantlet, commander ’ s cupola and radio operator ’ s machine gun were given special rubber coverings.

While the musical performance was more mainstream, the stage show was another over-the-top spectacle, featuring inflatable giraffes, dancers in eye ball masks illuminating the darkened stage with work lights, and a lead vocalist who seemed to change costumes throughout the show from wearing his eyeball mask to wearing a Richard Nixon mask, and at one point wearing only a wig and fake ears.

On 12 October 2000 she was attacked and damaged by suicide bombers using a small inflatable boat.

The deception was supported by fake planes, inflatable tanks and vans traveling about the area transmitting bogus radio chatter.

Solid or inflatable rubber balls meant that bounce juggling was possible.

Along with the inflatable bladder ( of which the whoopee cushion is a modern variant ), it was among the earliest special effects that a person could carry.

Contrary to popular belief, there was NO use of inflatable tanks, or other decoy equipment as part of Fortitude, with the exception of Dummy landing craft and dummy aircraft.

In 2009, Marysville became the first city in Central Ohio, as well as possibly the state of Ohio and multi-state region, to employ the use of inflatable dam technology, which was built on Mill Creek.

He was educated in Paris at the École Camondo and in 1968, he founded his first design firm, which specialized in inflatable objects.

The use of plastic pipe tethered with stakes became common, as it allowed for relatively easy reconfiguration of fields and at least some impact-absorption, and was the precursor to the modern inflatable bunker ( in fact, certain common features in inflatable fields, such as " can " and " snake " bunkers, were derived from similar features built with plastic drainage pipe ).

guitarist Chris Holmes was interviewed while drinking vodka on an inflatable raft in a swimming pool as his mother watched.

Armstrong, was one of the first designs combining a turtle-neck based on the popular Sealsuit with a flexible lightweight YKK horizontal zipper across the back shoulders similar in concept to the inflatable watertight Supersuit ( developed by Jack O ' Neill in the late 1960s ).

In the case of Voskhod 2, an inflatable exterior airlock was also added to the descent module opposite the entry hatch.

Vostok-based Voskhod 3KD spacecraft with two crew members on board, Pavel Belyaev and Alexei Leonov, was equipped with an inflatable airlock.

An inflatable exterior airlock was also added to the descent module opposite the entry hatch.

An experiment which was to provide atmospheric drag and color visibility data in space through deployment of an inflatable sphere was partially successful.

* Ecosystem ecology The " SolVin-Pretzel " because of its shape was the name given to the inflatable United Nations Global Canopy Programme's light weight research platform which is placed on top of the canopy of rainforests to study the ecology below.

" Dinghy " was Young's nickname, a reference to the fact that he had twice survived a crash at sea in an inflatable rubber dinghy.

Another memorable piece was her performance of Jim McWilliams ' Sky Kiss in many locations including New York and Sydney, Australia, which involved her hanging suspended from helium-filled weather balloons or the brightly colored inflatable sculptures of Otto Piene.

However, the most notorious of Gabriel's costumes was the Slipperman, a naked monster with inflatable genitalia and covered in lumps, who emerged onto the stage by crawling out of a phallus-shaped tube.

The inflatable Snoopy character was removed and it took several months before it was finally replaced by a generic tree house inflatable.

* 1820: Paul Lemaire d ' Augerville ( a Parisian dentist ) invented and made a diving apparatus with a copper backpack cylinder, and with a counter-lung to save air, and with an inflatable lifejacket connected.

The Baschet Brothers invented the inflatable guitar, the aluminum piano and many other experimental musical instruments.

He brought with him on his trip a guitar to help him earn a living, but wanting something more portable he invented an inflatable guitar using a balloon and a collapsible wood neck.

The inflatable and Bow kite designs were invented by Dominique and Bruno Legaignoux.

The Mae West was a common nickname for the first inflatable life preserver, which was invented in 1928 by Peter Markus ( 1885 – 1974 ) ( US Patent 1694714 ) with his subsequent improvements in 1930 and 1931.

Floating aboard an inflatable lifeboat, they are eventually spotted by a US Navy sea-plane.

The assault on the offshore platforms were carried out by SWCC's manned rigid-hulled inflatable boats ( RHIBs ) as well as SWCC manned Mk Vs carrying the GROM.

Boards similar to those known from windsurfing or wakeboarding are propelled by an inflatable or foil kite, allowing for high speeds and high jumps.

Chuck is able to escape the sinking plane and is saved by an inflatable life-raft but in the process, loses the raft's emergency locator transmitter.

In 2010, three children in an inflatable jump house were picked up by a dust devil and were carried over 10-feet ( 3 m ) high, over a fence and landed in a backyard three houses away, in east El Paso, Texas.

Egged on by Garbitsch, Hynkel has become obsessed with the idea of being Emperor of the world, dancing at one point with a large, inflatable globe, to the tune of the Prelude to Act I of Richard Wagner's Lohengrin.

Individual detachments often have smaller high-speed rigid-hulled inflatable boats and other purpose-built vessels for inland waters, some of which can be hauled by road to the nearest launching point.

Males and females are hard to distinguish visually, but can be differentiated by the types of loud sounds they emit by manipulating an inflatable neck sac.

His design had a pneumatic motion platform driven by inflatable bellows which provided pitch and roll cues.

Its lining is not padded but inflatable ; it has an inflation tube ending at the red nipple ( at the bottom of the image ), to inflate the lining by mouth to fit it firmly on the head.

A dinghy is useful to avoid the need for expensive dock or slip space, so owners of small yachts compromise by carrying a small rigid dinghy or deflated inflatable, or by towing a larger dinghy.

Typical catarafts are constructed from two inflatable pontoons on either side of the craft that are bridged by a frame.

* Moonwalk ( bounce house ), large inflatable used for entertainment, typically by young children

Two brothers, Bruno Legaignoux and Dominique Legaignoux, from the Atlantic coast of France, developed kites for kitesurfing in the late 1970s and early 1980s and patented an inflatable kite design in November 1984, a design that has been used by companies to develop their own products.

The head of the bed can be elevated by plastic or wooden bed risers that support bed posts or legs, a therapeutic bed wedge pillow, a wedge or an inflatable mattress lifter that fits in between mattress and box spring or a hospital bed with an elevate feature.

The females of this family also possess a unique vocal organ created by an enlarged trachea and inflatable bulb in the oesophagus, which they use to produce a booming call.

Blood pressure can be monitored either invasively through an inserted blood pressure transducer assembly ( providing continuous monitoring ), or noninvasively by repeatedly measuring the blood pressure with an inflatable blood pressure cuff.