" The RFB is a gas-operated semi-automatic rifle with tilting breech block locking mechanism, loads the 7. 62 × 51 NATO cartridge and uses metric FAL magazines ; the RFB " family " consists in a series of Bullpup rifles with three barrel lengths ( 18 " barrel carbine, 24 " sporter and 32 " target versions ), and a patented forward-ejection system via a tube placed over the barrel that ejects the spent case forwards, over the handguard of the rifle.

Flexion ( tilting towards the palm, so called palmar flexion ) and extension ( tilting towards the back of the hand, so called dorsiflexion ) is possible with a total range of 170 degrees.

For instance, in Bahia the girls tend to dance tilting their legs towards the outside instead of keeping their knees close to each other as in Rio de Janeiro.

The flat, tilting primary mirror consists of ten panels, each 20 m long and 40 m ( 131 ft ) high ; it reflects radio waves towards the fixed secondary mirror 460 m away.

There are yokes where roll is controlled by rotating the yoke clockwise / counterclockwise ( like steering a car ) and pitch is controlled by tilting the control column towards you or away from you, but in others the pitch is controlled by sliding the yoke into and out of the instrument panel ( like most Cessnas, such as the 152 and 172 ), and in some the roll is controlled by sliding the whole yoke to the left and right ( like the Cessna 162 ).

On April 23, 2009 it was announced that the focus had been successfully optimized by moving the primary mirror 40 micrometers ( 1. 6 thousandths of an inch ) towards the focal plane and tilting the primary mirror 0. 0072 degree.

Also, the Bengal Basin is slowly tilting towards the east due to neo-tectonic movement, forcing greater freshwater input to the Bangladesh Sundarbans.

Another instance of wall jumping in a fighting game is in Super Smash Bros. Melee where the characters Mario, Samus, Sheik, Captain Falcon, Fox, Falco Lombardi, Pichu and Young Link can wall-jump off solid obstacles by tilting the analog stick towards and away from a wall once rapidly.

The frustration from seeing the ball follow a path towards the gap between the flippers can lead to the player physically tilting the machine ( in an attempt to guide the ball towards the flippers ).

This Fiat-inspired configuration not only enabled neat engine bay packaging, but also, by tilting the engine 20 degrees rearwards, the Lancia engineers achieved improved weight transfer over the driven wheels and towards the centre of the car, as well as lowering the centre of gravity.

Todies sit quietly on high perches and scan the surface below with fast, jerky motions of its bill which it has the habit of tilting towards the sky.

alt = Front profile of a blond woman, tilting her whole body towards the back.

He did this by tilting the landscape up against the picture plane, so that frequently the only indicator of horizontal recession is the presence of a horizon line, or where clumps of trees huddle closer together towards the horizon, suggesting recession.

The result is a tilting of the direction of the incoming light which is independent of the distance between object and observer.

Rail transport is fairly developed, with dual track and electrification not very common, although high-speed tilting trains are used on some routes.

These layers do not show the tilting and distortion associated with mountain building, therefore, the likeliest explanation is a " regression ", that is, a drop in sea level.

The tilting is done by the arms, which are outstretched to the sides just before the twist.

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.

The index finger is also used to apply an upward torque to the frog when tilting the bow.

In Poor Little Rich Girl ( 1917 ) a camera shot tilting sideways is intended to convey delirium, and by 1918 the idea had got to Russia, in Baryshnya i khuligan ( The Lady and the Hooligan ), where the Hooligan's infatuation with the Lady is conveyed by his Point of View of her splitting into a multiply superimposed image.

The slide angle is another dynamic measure of hydrophobicity and is measured by depositing a droplet on a surface and tilting the surface until the droplet begins to slide.

This means that the lake bed is gradually tilting southward, inundating the south shore and turning river valleys into bays.

In a tilting or pivoting block action, the breechblock is hinged at the rear.

The efficiency of solar panels rapidly decreases when they are not pointed directly at the sun, so some way of tilting the arrays while under way is very advantageous.

Rolling the plane is accomplished by turning the yoke in the direction of the desired roll, or by tilting the control stick in that direction.

Since it is always positioned on the macula, there is no way to make it move laterally, but it can be made to rotate, by viewing a white surface through a rotating polarizer, or by slowly tilting one's head to one side.

A hopper window is a bottom-pivoting casement window that opens by tilting vertically, typically to the inside.

This is the source of the phrase tilting at windmills.

* CAF is to supply 17 non-tilting diesel multiple-units based on the RENFE Series 598 tilting trains.

Pitch control of the autogyro is by tilting the rotor fore and aft ; roll control is by tilting the rotor laterally ( side to side ).

British Rail ran an extensive experimental program on active tilt systems in the 1960s that was highly influential, and followed these studies in the 1970s with a new tilting train design, the Advanced Passenger Train ( APT ), consisting of an experimental APT-E and three prototype APT-Ps.

A new radial drill press with a 16 inch capacity has a tilting head that allows drilling to be done at any angle.

He reflected that the event was a prophecy that he would be " tilting at the sun and always catching the fall.

Recently Croatian Railways introduced a series of modern tilting trains produced by the German branch of Bombardier Transportation.

The previous service used to take 9 hours, whereas the tilting trains take no more than 5. 5 hours.

There are plans to expand the tilting train service since they turned out to be very profitable on longer routes.

He suggested that it arose from four trends: weak national parties and strong political representation of individual districts, the large U. S. military establishment after World War II, big corporate money financing election campaigns, and globalization tilting the balance away from workers.

Double-barreled shotguns, often known as doubles, are almost universally break open actions, with the barrels tilting up at the rear to expose the breech ends of the barrels for unloading and reloading.

The phrase " tilting at windmills " to describe an act of attacking imaginary enemies derives from an iconic scene in the book.

Hutton reasoned that there must have been innumerable cycles, each involving deposition on the seabed, uplift with tilting and erosion then undersea again for further layers to be deposited.

This causeway was called the Tiltyard, as it was used for tilting, or jousting, in medieval times.

Both north and south shores experience shoreline erosion, but the tilting amplifies this effect on the south shore, causing loss to property owners.

During this northward migration of the sun as a result of the earth tilting along its axis, the sun crosses the equator ( around March ), moving over west Africa at this time on its journey to the northern hemisphere.

As a result, for the first time the English-speaking population of Canada West surpassed the French-speaking population of Canada East, tilting the representative balance of power.