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  2. Square rig - Wikipedia

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    Square rig is a generic type of sail and rigging arrangement in which the primary driving sails are carried on horizontal spars which are perpendicular, or square, to the keel of the vessel and to the masts. These spars are called yards and their tips, outside the lifts, are called the yardarms. [1] A ship mainly rigged so is called a square ...

  3. Clewlines and buntlines - Wikipedia

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    Clewlines and buntlines are lines used to handle the sails of a square rigged ship. The leechlines are clearly visible running inwards and upwards from the edges of the sail. The buntlines up the front of the sail can be seen too, but their run to the blocks on the shrouds is obscured because the sail is set on a lifting yard.

  4. Rickenbacker International Airport - Wikipedia

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    Rickenbacker ranks as one of the world's top 20 fastest growing cargo airports in July 2006 with 112,888 tons, a 15.3% increase from the previous year. This is mainly due to the transfer of AirNet Systems operations from Port Columbus International Airport to Rickenbacker. This number is expected to increase with the introduction of the new ...

  5. DynaRig - Wikipedia

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    Maltese Falcon masts. The DynaRig is a conceptualization of a square-rigged form of rigging, designed in the 1960s by the German engineer Wilhelm Prölß.While having the appearance of the rigging of a 19th-century clipper ship, it was not actually implemented on a sailing vessel until several decades after its design because of a lack of adequate construction materials.

  6. Rigging - Wikipedia

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    Rigging comprises the system of ropes, cables and chains, which support and control a sailing ship or sail boat's masts and sails. Standing rigging is the fixed rigging that supports masts including shrouds and stays. Running rigging is rigging which adjusts the position of the vessel's sails and spars including halyards, braces, sheets and ...

  7. Transportation Research Center - Wikipedia

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    Basalt & Ceramic Tile Low Mu Surfaces: Contains a 10-meter x 300-meter basalt course with a .25 slide and a 7.5-meter x 100-meter ceramic surface with a .15 slide. Both of these facilities can handle up to 80,000 lbs. and have their own self-contained watering systems. TRC also offers basalt and ceramic tile facilities as well as jennite surfaces.

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