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  2. AN/FLR-9 - Wikipedia

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    The array is centered on a ground screen 1,443 feet (439.8 m) in diameter. The arrangement permits accurate direction finding of signals from up to 4000 nautical miles (7408 km) away. AN/FLR-9 antenna array at Misawa Air Base c. 1980. FLR-9s were constructed at the following places: [3] USASA Field Station Augsburg (Gablingen Kaserne), Germany

  3. List of track gauges - Wikipedia

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    5 ft 8 in: England Babbacombe Cliff Railway and Fisherman's Walk Cliff Railway: 1,740 mm 5 ft 8 1 ⁄ 2 in United States Gualala River Railroad [101] 1,750 mm 5 ft 8 + 7 ⁄ 8 in: France Ligne de Sceaux Paris to Limours via Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse, until 1891 1,800 mm 5 ft 10 + 7 ⁄ 8 in: Germany Oberweißbacher Bergbahn (funicular section ...

  4. Crane (rail) - Wikipedia

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    Rail Crane Rail SPA Crane (750 mm) Czech PW maintenance crane Electric crane replacing track on the Toronto streetcar system (1917). A railway crane (North America: railroad crane, crane car or wrecker; UK: breakdown crane) is a type of crane used on a railway for one of three primary purposes: freight handling in goods yards, permanent way (PW) maintenance, and accident recovery work.

  5. C. Crane Company - Wikipedia

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    The "C" is Crane's middle initial, as well as his wife's and children's. [1] The company was initially a furniture design and manufacturing company and only switched to being an electronics distributor in 1983, upon the Cranes' relocation to Fortuna. C. Crane's first electronics product was the "Select-A-Tenna", an antenna manufactured by ...

  6. Weeks 533 - Wikipedia

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    The floating barge-crane, originally named Marine Boss, was built for Murphy Pacific Marine.The barge was assembled by Zidell Explorations from scrapped ship steel in Oregon [2] in 1966 and fitted in San Francisco with a heavy 500-ton revolving crane made by Clyde Iron Works [3] to perform the heavy girder and deck-section lifts for construction of the 1967 San Mateo-Hayward Bridge.

  7. Berne gauge - Wikipedia

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    The contiguous rail network in North America has a minimum width of 3,250 mm (10 ft 8 in) and a minimum height of 4,620 millimetres (15 ft 2 in). The standard gauge rail network in Eastern Asia is built to a minimum width of 3,400 millimetres (11 ft 2 in), and the Chinese CRH2 as well as the Japanese 0 Series Shinkansen have a width of 3,380 ...

  8. Naples Sabot - Wikipedia

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    The Naples Sabot is an 8-foot (2.4 m) sailing dinghy. [1] The Naples Sabot was designed by Roy McCullough and R.A. Violette and the first two were built in Violette's garage during WW II, [2] although official designs were not made available until 1946.

  9. Overhead crane - Wikipedia

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    Single Girder Overhead Crane. The single girder type overhead crane is the most common overhead crane. It is generally used for light applications, normally up to 10 tonnes. Double Girder Overhead Crane. The double girder overhead crane structure is used for heavier applications up to 125 tons and reaching over 100 feet of span.