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The Flying Scot is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass with a balsa core. It has a fractional sloop rig with aluminum spars. The hull has a raked stem, a plumb transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable centerboard that weighs 105 lb (48 kg) and is raised with a 6:1 mechanical advantage assist.
The boiler and cylinder parts from Flying Scotsman 's scrapped sister engine, 60041 Salmon Trout were also purchased. [39] [40] On 1 May 1968, the locomotive completed a non-stop London to Edinburgh run, marking the 40th anniversary of the inaugural non-stop Flying Scotsman service and the year steam traction officially ended on British ...
Graeme Obree (born 11 September 1965 [1]), nicknamed The Flying Scotsman, after the famous steam train, is a Scottish racing cyclist who twice broke the world hour record, in July 1993 and April 1994, and was the individual pursuit world champion in 1993 and 1995.
The Flying Scotsman is an express passenger train service that operates between Edinburgh and London, the capitals respectively of Scotland and England, via the East Coast Main Line. The service began in 1862 as the Special Scotch Express until it was officially adopted in 1924.
The Flying Scot bikes were first built in 1901 by David Rattray and Co. in Glasgow. Rattray was probably the largest maker of lightweight bicycles in Scotland. Rattray went out of business in 1982. In 1982, Dave Yates at M. Steel Cycles in England purchased the "Flying Scot" name. M Steel built bikes under this name until 1991.
Introduced in the autumn of 1940 for the 1941 Nash 600, it was originally designed to be an economy engine by Nash Motors, who initially called it the "Flying Scot" engine. [1] Nash went on to merge with Hudson to form AMC in 1954.
Flying Scot may refer to: Flying Scot (dinghy), a class of day sailer dinghy designed in 1957; The Flying Scot, a 1957 British crime film directed by Compton Bennett; Flying Scot (bicycles), a marque used by Scottish bicycle manufacturer, David Rattray and Co. Scottish Formula One competitor, Jackie Stewart.
Names of sailing dinghy parts. Some dinghies come into more than one category, either because boundaries overlap or because different categories are measuring different things; e.g. both "one design" boats and boats of much freer design can be found in each of the main categories below.