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  2. Wing (waltz) - Wikipedia

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    A wing is a ballroom dance move, in the silver syllabus of competition waltz.It is a transitional movement that repositions the follower to the leader's left side. Thus, while many dance moves can precede a wing, only a reverse movement can follow a wing, such as a reverse turn, double reverse spin, Telemark, fallaway reverse, or drag hesitation.

  3. International standard waltz - Wikipedia

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    Like all Standard category dances, waltz is a progressive dance, meaning that dancers travel along a path known as the line of dance, that is counter-clockwise around the floor. It is characterized by pendulum swing movements and incorporates general elements of ballroom technique such as foot parallelism, rise and fall , contra body movement ...

  4. Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 - Wikipedia

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    In developing the concept of rotary-wing flight, Sikorsky was the first to introduce a single engine to power both the main and tail rotor systems. The only previous successful attempt at a single-lift rotor helicopter, the Yuriev-Cheremukhin TsAGI-1EA [ ru ] in 1931 in the Soviet Union, used a pair of uprated, Russian-built Gnome Monosoupape ...

  5. Rotorcraft - Wikipedia

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    A Bell 47 helicopter, an early example of a powered rotorcraft. A rotary-wing aircraft, rotorwing aircraft or rotorcraft is a heavier-than-air aircraft with rotary wings that spin around a vertical mast to generate lift. The assembly of several rotor blades mounted on a single mast is referred to as a rotor.

  6. List of dances - Wikipedia

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    It is a non-categorized, index list of specific dances. It may also include dances which could either be considered specific dances or a family of related dances. For example, ballet, ballroom dance and folk dance can be single dance styles or families of related dances. See following for categorized lists: List of dance style categories

  7. Contra body movement - Wikipedia

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    One occurrence of CBM can be observed in a left rock (adlib) turn in American Foxtrot. As the leader takes their second step (the second "slow"), CBM occurs as the right leg moves backward and the left side of the body moves backward, causing the body to begin rotation to the left.

  8. List of dance styles - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of dance categories, different types, styles, or genres of dance. For older and more region-oriented vernacular dance styles, see List of ethnic, regional, and folk dances by origin .

  9. Rotor wing - Wikipedia

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    Conventional rotary wings as used by modern rotorcraft. Spanwise horizontal-axis. Wing rotor: an airfoil-section horizontal-axis rotor which creates the primary lift. Magnus rotor: a rotor which creates lift via the Magnus effect. Flettner rotor: a smooth cylindrical Magnus rotor with disc end plates.