* VOR the Maelstrom

Rights to the miniatures game VOR the Maelstrom reverted to the designer Mike " Skuzzy " Nielsen, but it has not been republished in any form due partly to legal difficulties.

In the VOR universe, the Earth has been sucked into a pocket universe known as the Maelstrom.

A Vor 2. 0 game was announced in 2008: see Official VOR: The Maelstrom 2. 0 website.

# REDIRECT VOR: The Maelstrom

# REDIRECT VOR: The Maelstrom

* A unit type in the game VOR: The Maelstrom.

This is called the vestibulo-ocular reflex ( VOR ).

Biggin Hill is the location of a VOR navigational beacon, codenamed " BIG ", which anchors the South East Arrival Stack for London Heathrow Airport.

The Grand Rapids VOR is located in Caledonia, used by aircraft navigating to nearby Gerald R. Ford International Airport.

The airport is equipped with an ILS Cat II landing system and offers the following radio navigation aids: VOR – DME – NDB.

The modern VOR system is based on the same principles.

VHF omnidirectional range, or VOR, is an implementation of the reverse-RDF system, but one that is more accurate and able to be completely automated.

Instead of a single signal, the VOR transmitter sends out three signals-one is a simple voice channel that sends morse code to identify the station, another is a continuous signal sent in all directions, and the last is a signal that is rotated at 30 RPM.

ILS is essentially a combination of the beam system's narrow fan-shaped broadcasts with a modulation scheme that allows automated display, similar to VOR.

DME is almost always used in conjunction with VOR, and is normally co-located at a VOR station.

Nystagmus ( flickering of the eye, related to the VOR ) is often seen in patients with an acute peripheral cause of dizziness.

This is called the vestibulo-ocular reflex ( VOR ).

A busy directional radio beacon ( VOR ), identifier " DTY ", for aircraft is situated approximately 4 miles ( 6. 4 km ) south of the town.

VOR is a more sophisticated system, and is still the primary air navigation system established for aircraft flying under IFR in those countries with many navigational aids.

A runway equipped with NDB or VOR ( or both ) as the only navigation aid is called a non-precision approach runway ; if it is equipped with ILS it is called a precision approach runway.

In practice, the older Radio Range procedures were so widely used and standardized that VOR was used to produce a similar set of airways that remain in use today.

The United States forest Service ( USFS ) uses visual obstruction readings ( VOR ) to set stocking densities for cattle based on the current years standing residual vegetation.

The pilot can follow this course manually ( much like following a VOR radial ), or the autopilot can be set to follow the course.

Avionics can use satellite-based systems ( such as GPS and WAAS ), ground-based systems ( such as VOR or LORAN ), or any combination thereof.

Some airports are equipped with a VHF omnidirectional range ( VOR ) to help pilots find the direction to the airport.

VORs are often accompanied by a distance measuring equipment ( DME ) to determine the distance to the VOR.

Common uses for VHF are FM radio broadcasting, television broadcasting, land mobile stations ( emergency, business, private use and military ), long range data communication with radio modems, amateur radio, marine communications, air traffic control communications and air navigation systems ( e. g. VOR, DME & ILS ).

* 108 – 118 MHz: Air navigation beacons VOR and Instrument Landing System localiser.

VAR was later redeveloped into VOR.

As the LF / MF signals used by NDBs can follow the curvature of earth, NDB has a much greater range than VOR which travels only in line of sight.

As VOR required two VHF receivers as well as a conventional radio for station identification, the system did not become popular until the era of miniaturized electronics, first with small tubes in the 1950s, and then transistorized systems in the 1960s.

Although the system could be used anywhere, as opposed to the beams which were only broadcast in certain directions, in theory the VOR system could be used for free navigation from any to any point.

It differed from VOR primarily in its modulation system, adding a Lorentz-like signal to accurately define the center of the rotating beam.

The rapid miniaturization of electronics during and after WWII made systems like VOR practical, and most beam systems rapidly disappeared.

The low frequency radio range ( LFR ), also known as the four-course radio range, LF / MF four-course radio range, A-N radio range, Adcock radio range, or commonly " the Range ", was the main navigation system used by aircraft for instrument flying in the 1930s and 1940s in the U. S. and other countries, until the advent of the VOR in the late 1940s.

However, certain cosmic entities, such as Galactus, In-Betweener, Maelstrom, or The Stranger have demonstrated personality, motivations, or ( except for the first mention ) even ambitions beyond their functions, but often maintain the perspective that morality is entirely relative, or that destroying civilisations of " lesser " beings is no more evil than if these beings destroyed an anthill.

The plot revolves around a newly promoted captain who is assigned to investigate an explosion of a star in the Maelstrom.

Phelgethon is the location of a number of godly realms, including the Queen of Air and Darkness's realm of the Unseelie Court, Zeboim's realm of The Maelstrom, and the derro deity Diirinka's realm of Hidden Betrayal.

" McLuhan ( 1951 ) found inspiration in Edgar Allan Poe's short story, " A Descent into the Maelstrom ," in which a shipwrecked sailor is trapped within a whirlpool, but escapes death by finding the pattern hidden within the vortex.

Dr. Gunnar Maelstrom ( pronounced goonar ) is a hostile & extremely violent criminal whose archenemy is Carmen Sandiego.

During a series of extended battles between cosmic hero Quasar and the villain Maelstrom ( the avatar of the entity Oblivion ), Eternity is revealed to have a " twin " entity-Infinity, with the pair representing the space-time continuum and the living force of the universe.

* Bloth ( voiced by Brock Peters ): The ox-sized, humanoid captain of the feared pirate ship Maelstrom, he is after the Thirteen Treasures of Rule to control all the Dark Water in the world, and in effect, Mer itself.

The original Maelstrom ( described by Poe and others ) is the Moskstraumen, a powerful tidal current in the Lofoten Islands off the Norwegian coast.

The Maelstrom is formed by the conjunction of the strong currents that cross the straits ( Moskenstraumen ) between the islands and the great amplitude of the tides.

The fictional depictions of the Maelstrom by Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Verne describe it as a gigantic circular vortex that reaches the bottom of the ocean, when in fact it is a set of currents and crosscurrents with a rate of 18 km / h.

In Spanish and other languages, Maelstrom is used as a synonym for whirlpool.

In the Act 5 of Gears of War 3, the main objective is to deactivate a Maelstrom device.

In the film Maelstrom, Lofoten is where the ashes of Annstein Karson are distributed.

The ship loses control in the storm, and is trapped by the Maelstrom in the Blood Sea of Istar.

However, Quasar is recreated in an energy form by the cosmic being Infinity and battles Maelstrom and Oblivion.

Maelstrom is destroyed by the Quantum-bands and Quasar resurrects himself.

Critic Matt Smith of Maelstrom wrote that it is one of best Opeth albums, and " it set the tone for the albums to come.

Maelstrom is a role-playing game by Alexander Scott, originally published in 1984 by Puffin Books as a single soft cover book ( ISBN 0140318119 ; ISBN 978-0-14-031811-1 ).

The herbal pharmacopoeia present at the end of the book, representing herbal knowledge of the time, has become legendary in roleplaying circles and is believed to have been a major source document for many subsequent RPG herbals ( only some of which credit Maelstrom ).

Age is a very important characteristic to a character in Maelstrom, unlike many RPGs where aging is not a major consideration in character generation.

Following is a partial list showing a range of the Livings a character may choose from, from both the core rulebook and the Maelstrom Companion.