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Tamio "Tommy" Kono (Japanese: 高野 民夫, June 27, 1930 – April 24, 2016) was an American weightlifter of Japanese descent.A two-time Olympic gold medalist, Kono set world records in four different weight classes: [2] lightweight (149 pounds or 67.5 kilograms), middleweight (165 lb or 75 kg), light-heavyweight (182 lb or 82.5 kg) and middle-heavyweight (198 lb or 90 kg).
Skiing gained in popularity, and soon ski lifts became the major part of the Riblet Tramway Company's business. They built more than 400 lifts, particularly in Washington , Oregon , and California , and as far away as Australia , New Zealand and Chile ; one secondhand American lift has also been relocated to Pakistan . [ 3 ]
DARPA launched the project in mid-2022, wanting a plane that could lift large, heavy loads by skimming the water in ground effect, and capable of operating at mid-altitudes of up to 10,000 feet (3,000 m). Utilizing the ground effect, flying at an altitude equal to 5% of the wingspan can deliver 2.3 times more efficient flight performance.
Ski Lift International – United States, founded in 1965, acquired by Riblet in 1973 [citation needed] Ringer – Germany, founded in 1950, closed in 1953 [55] Sacif – Italy; Samson – Canada, manufactured ropeways between the 1960s and 1988 [59] Sakgiproshakht – Soviet Georgia, founded in 1946, closed in 1990 [N 17] Geospectrans ...
In 1996, Doppelmayr's European holding company purchased the ropeway department of Von Roll, a Swiss manufacturer which had been making lifts in North America since the mid-1980s. Von Roll owned Hall Ski-Lift, an American company that produced more than 400 lifts from 1960 to 1985. Doppelmayr now controlled all the spare parts sales for ...
Lift is a 2024 American heist comedy film directed by F. Gary Gray and written by Daniel Kunka. The film stars Kevin Hart (who was also a producer), Gugu Mbatha-Raw , Vincent D'Onofrio , Úrsula Corberó , Billy Magnussen , Jacob Batalon , Jean Reno , and Sam Worthington .
Mike Mentzer was born on November 15, 1951, in the Germantown section of Philadelphia and his father was of German descent and his mother was of Italian descent.In grammar school and Ephrata High School, he received "all A's."
Ski Lift International (SLI) [1] was an aerial lift manufacturer based out of Incline Village, Nevada. [2] SLI was established in 1965 [3] by co-founders Samuel G. Bonasso and Joseph Sugarman, with Bonasso as its first president. The company built 46 lifts, mainly double chairlifts, from 1965 until 1973. SLI had a prototype gondola and triple ...