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The Sling 4 is an all-metal, low-wing, fixed tricycle gear kit aircraft, developed in 2011. The canopy was modified to include gull-wing doors. The aircraft has flaps with 40 degrees of travel. [2] [3] It has been estimated that building a Sling 4 requires 900-1,200 man-hours of work. The aircraft can be supplied as a kit, or built by the ...
Burton Rubin came up with the idea for E-Z Wider in 1969 while attending Law School in Miami. Rubin noticed his "smoking" classmates were putting two leaves together to make double wide papers. Some time later Rubin met Bob Stiller through Rubin's then wife. In 1971, Rubin wrote to over 11 European companies in hopes of beginning production.
Development of the Sling 2 commenced in 2006. The Sling is a two-seat, low wing, all metal aircraft with tricycle landing gear made from composites. The aircraft is powered by an 80 hp (60 kW) Rotax 912UL,100 hp (75 kW), a Rotax 912ULS, or a 912iS engine, or optionally a turbocharged 115 hp (86 kW) Rotax 914 UL, driving a 3-bladed Warp Drive Inc propeller.
October 9, 2005 — EZ-Rocket second and third Las Cruces flights, at Countdown to X PRIZE Cup. Third and fourth rocketplane air show flights in the United States. December 3, 2005 — Set the point-to-point distance record for a ground-launched, rocket-powered aircraft, flying 16 km from Mojave to California City in just under ten minutes ...
Weekend World is the British drum and bass group E-Z Rollers' second album. It was released in 1998. In 1999, the album was re-released with two bonus tracks and slightly altered track listing and cover art. The song "Short Change" was used as the main menu music for the 1999 game Grand Theft Auto 2.
The H-16-66 was a 1,600 horsepower (1.2 MW) locomotive, with a C-C wheel arrangement that was manufactured by Fairbanks-Morse from January, 1951 until October, 1958 as a smaller alternative to their better known FM H-24-66 "Train Master" locomotive. With an 8-cylinder prime mover developing 1600 hp compared to the H-24-66's 2400 hp from as 12 ...
This sense of drift is not to be confused with the four wheel drift, a classic cornering technique established in Grand Prix and sports car racing. [citation needed] As a motoring discipline, drifting competitions were first popularized in Japan in the 1970s and further popularized by the 1995 manga series Initial D. Drifting competitions are ...
The design's stall resistance did not appear to translate to a lower accident rate than for other homebuilts; a review of the NTSB database [4] from 1976 to 2005 shows 130 total accidents and 46 fatal accidents out of a fleet of about 800 (691 registered in 2005). Precise comparisons are difficult, however, because of the haphazard nature of ...