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This word usage is a metaphor derived from the idea of a dog (animal) biting and holding on, the "dog" name derived from the basic idea of how a dog jaw locks on, by the movement of the jaw, or by the presence of many teeth. In engineering the "dog" device has some special engineering work when making it – it is not a simple part to make as ...
Sledding huskies wearing X-back style sled dog harnesses A dog participating in a weight-pull competition, wearing a weight-pull style sled harness. A military dog wearing tactical vest (tacvest) An assistance dog wearing a harness with a rigid handle. A dog harness is a piece of equipment consisting in part of straps that surround the dog’s ...
Safety harnesses designed for use in an automobile restrain the animal in a car seat using the car's seat belt. These harnesses are marketed as reducing the risk of injury to a pet that is riding in a vehicle during a traffic collision. The harnesses are also said to keep the pet from distracting the driver, or escaping from a vehicle. [1]
Audio recording of Spitfire fly-past at the 2011 family day at RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire Supermarine Spitfire G-AWGB landing at Biggin Hill Airport, June 2024. The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during, and after World War II.
Burton, gone for a – a widely used term, but in RAF slang meaning someone who has gone missing, or more likely, had been killed on operations. [21] Bus driver – a slang term used by fighter pilots to describe bomber pilots. [22]
Swing dogs or point dogs are directly behind the leader (one dog if the team is in single hitch). They swing the rest of the team behind them in turns or curves on the trail. (Some mushers use the term swag dog to denote a team dog.) Team dogs are those between the wheelers and the swing dogs, and add power to the team. A small team may not ...
Dogcart with horses in tandem. A dogcart (also dog-cart or dog cart) is a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle pulled by a single horse in shafts, or driven tandem.With seating for four, it was designed for sporting shooters and their gun dogs, with a louvred box under the driver's seat to contain dogs.
In a full-power dive in the Hawker Hawfinch, a fuselage bay collapsed at about terminal-velocity speed; the anchorage for the Sutton harness was in the tail and this pulled him back and nearly broke his neck. While testing the first Bulldog, Summers spun down from 10,000 to 2,000 feet (3,050 to 610 m), having tried to abandon the machine at ...