The Falcon project began in 1959 to design a new, lightweight diesel-electric Type 4 locomotive for a British Railways ' requirement for second generation diesel locomotives.

Sea Wolf was not designed as a particularly lightweight system, the original GWS-25 variant with Type 910 tracking required 13. 5 tonnes of tracking and below decks fire control equipment, reduced to 5 tonnes with the upgraded Type 911 tracker.

The railways archive-Retrieved on 2007-06-15 </ ref > They therefore required a large build of lightweight Type 4 locomotives to achieve this aim.

The earlier Type 11 Light Machine Gun was a lightweight machine gun, which could be easily transportable by an infantry squad into combat.

The D600s were the result of power politics within the BTC and the WR: the former was unwilling to sanction radical, stressed-skin lightweight construction locomotives at the time, while the latter was equally insistent that at least some of the new Type 4 power range locomotives on order be equipped with hydraulic transmission.

At around this time Tony Rudd, who had by then joined BRM after his previous period of secondment from Rolls-Royce, suggested that they build a lightweight, short-wheelbase, version of the car for this sort of race, and this subsequently became the Mark II or Type 30.

June 29, 1968, proved to be Ortiz's last day as a world champion, as he lost his world lightweight title to Dominican Carlos Cruz on a 15 round decision in the Dominican Republic.

The astronauts also evaluated a new lightweight spacesuit, which proved uncomfortable if worn for a long time in Gemini's hot, cramped quarters.

Criticism over his oeuvre is severely divided between some English-speaking critics, who despise his literary style as poor, lightweight and superficial, and some of those more attached to the European tradition, who praise his humanism, simplicity and effective style.

FMS, the Fortran Monitor System, was a more lightweight but still very effective system optimized for batch FORTRAN and assembler programming.

The requirement for the new firearm called for a compact, lightweight defensive weapon with an effective range of 300 yards, with greater range, firepower, and accuracy than the pistol, while weighing half as much as the Thompson submachine gun or M1 rifle.

However, they are also frequently taken into major combat engagements, as they are both lightweight and extremely effective in the hands of a skilled crew.

For objects that need to be hung ( and that may require more protection than lightweight polyester film ), matting would be an effective alternative.

From the beginning, the main drawback of the M163 was its small caliber and lightweight shells, which limited its effective range.

A bivy sack at its barest is a thin waterproof fabric shell ( for example, made from lightweight silnylon ) designed to slip over a sleeping bag, providing an additional 5 to 10 ° F ( 2 to 5 ° C ) of insulation and forming an effective barrier against wind chill and rain.

Author Pier Dominquez of A Star is Made called the song " a lightweight but pleasant Pop / R & B confection " and stated Aguilera performed " vocal acrobatics " and labelled it a " less effective " Mariah Carey style vocal performance.

It is generally accepted that kites were first developed approximately 2, 800 years ago in China, where materials ideal for kite building were readily available: silk fabric for sail material ; fine, high-tensile-strength silk for flying line ; and resilient bamboo for a strong, lightweight framework.

The simplest form of fuse is the burning fuse, believed to date back to the 10th century and originating in China, this simple fuse consisted of lightweight paper filled with loose gunpowder, and served as a means of delaying ignition in fireworks.

Dizi produced in southern Chinese regions such as Chaozhou are often made of very slender, lightweight, light-colored bamboo and are much quieter in tone.

The soft, lightweight seeds were commonly used as a packing material by Chinese porcelain exporters in the 19th century, before the development of polystyrene packaging.

The artist's lightweight gags and sometimes moralistic tone were roughly satirized by the National Lampoons 1971 Mad parody, which included a hard-hatted conservative and a longhaired hippie finding their only common ground by choking and beating Berg.

According to the United States National Association of Rocketry ( NAR ) Safety Code, model rockets are constructed of paper, wood, plastic and other lightweight materials.

Immediately Kevlar was incorporated into a National Institute of Justice ( NIJ ) evaluation program to provide lightweight, concealable body armor to a test pool of American law enforcement officers to ascertain if everyday concealable wearing was possible.

He also labelled National Party senator Barnaby Joyce a " lightweight " for arguing in favour of foreign ownership restrictions to be placed upon Medibank Private after privatization.

The Youth National Championship features more than 1, 250 high school athletes competing for titles in the men ’ s and women ’ s eight ( Newport Aquatic Center has won the men's eight back to back in 2008 and 2009, while Marin has won the women's eight in 2008 and 2009 as well ), lightweight eight, quadruple sculls, four with coxswain, lightweight four with coxswain, double sculls, lightweight double sculls and single sculls.

Although NCAA National Championships only provide races for the aforementioned varsity boats, head races and regattas such as Head of the Charles, Pac-10 Championships and others allow a wide variety of competition for less-prominent boat classifications such as pair, sculls, and lightweight racing.

On May 3, 1940, the 5-8 fighter gained recognition from the National Boxing Association ( NBA ) as its world lightweight champion when he outpointed Davey Day over 15 rounds.

The Abuja National Stadium main bowl is designed to accommodate 60, 491 spectator seats covered by a lightweight roof construction.

In 1939, both Republic and Curtiss participated in an Army competition to develop a lightweight interceptor.

Lieutenant Colonel R. E. Evans, Royal Engineers, Assistant Director Army Postal Service Middle East Force ( MEF ), proposed that a lightweight self-sealing letter card that weighed only 1 / 10 oz be adopted by the British Army for air mail purposes.

The XM8 was the U. S. military designation for a lightweight assault rifle system under development by the United States Army from the late 1990s to early 2000s.

Field reports from the Panama Experimental Platoon on the new lightweight boots were positive, and M-1942 Jungle boots were later issued to a number of U. S. Army and Marine forces for use in tropical or jungle environments, including U. S. Army forces in New Guinea and the Philippines, and in Burma with Merrill's Marauders, the 1st Air Commando Group and the Mars Task Force ( 5332nd Brigade, Provisional ).

Apart from the helicopters, the Guards also utilize The Spider Light Strike Vehicle ( LSV ), a lightweight vehicle that is extremely mobile and agile procured by the Army to replace the jeeps which formerly carried their 106 mm recoilless guns.

In 1915, the need for lightweight automatic arms led the Russian Army to order the manufacture of Fedorov automatic rifles with larger-capacity detachable magazines.

This was reinforced by the first-hand observations of European combat tactics by Japanese military attachés during the First World War, and the Army Technical Bureau was tasked with the development of a lightweight machine gun, which could be easily transportable by the infantry squad.

The M119 Howitzer is a lightweight 105mm howitzer used by the United States Army.

Army engineers were unable to design a lightweight motor.

In the 1980s and early 1990s XC mountain bikes typically consisted of a lightweight steel hardtail frame with rigid forks.

One variant &# 151 ; applied in Ireland to the martyr Dermot O ' Hurley &# 151 ; consisted of lightweight metal boots that were filled with cool water and heated with the feet inside over a fire until the water boiled aggressively.

The floors consisted of lightweight concrete slabs laid on a fluted steel deck.

The structure consisted of a steel frame on a square grid with lightweight pre-cast concrete floor slabs and reinforced concrete retaining walls and sub floors.

In 1938, the rolling stock delivered for the San Diegan consisted of all lightweight stainless steel cars built by the Budd Company.

In the years following World War II, passenger trains on the CPR consisted of a mixture of prewar heavyweight and pre-and post-war lightweight cars, even on their flagship transcontinental The Dominion and its eastern extension, The Atlantic Limited.