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The term run-up alludes to engine checks that involve temporarily advancing the throttles to ensure that engines are capable of producing take-off thrust, although not all run-up procedures involve such checks. A run-up area is a location at an airport where pilots can perform run-up checks of their aircraft. They exist because air blast from ...
On 22 August 2006, after being re-fitted with 750 brake horsepower (560 kW) 'LSR' versions of the JCB444 engines, [2] the JCB Dieselmax car broke the official FIA diesel engine land speed record, attaining a speed of 328.767 mph (529.099 km/h). 24 hours later the JCB Dieselmax car broke its own record, achieving a speed of 350.092 mph (563.418 ...
Jax was raised in Atlantic Beach, New York, [2] [3] and moved with her family in 2005 to East Brunswick, New Jersey. [4] [5] She began singing at age 5. [6]Her father, John, a Catholic of Italian and Croatian descent, was a firefighter who was injured on duty during the September 11 attacks, and her mother, Jill, a Jewish woman, is a New York City school teacher. [7]
Jungle is a genre of electronic music that developed out of the UK rave scene and Jamaican sound system culture in the 1990s. Emerging from breakbeat hardcore, the style is characterised by rapid breakbeats, heavily syncopated percussive loops, samples, and synthesised effects, combined with the deep basslines, melodies, and vocal samples found in dub, reggae and dancehall, as well as hip hop ...
Jungle Cruise, formally named Jungle River Cruise, is a riverboat amusement ride located in the Adventureland themed section at various Disney theme parks worldwide. The attraction is a simulated riverboat cruise that travels along a waterway using a concealed guidance system through areas with Asian, African, and South American themes.
JAX is a machine learning framework for transforming numerical functions developed by Google with some contributions from Nvidia. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is described as bringing together a modified version of autograd (automatic obtaining of the gradient function through differentiation of a function) and OpenXLA's XLA (Accelerated Linear Algebra).
Jax is the stage name of Jackson McGoldrick (born April 5, 1997), [2] an American drag queen, dancer, and photographer. Jax competed on the fifteenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race . Early years
The Jaguar XK120 is a sports car manufactured by Jaguar between 1948 and 1954. It was Jaguar's first sports car since SS 100 production ended in 1939. The XK120 was launched in open two-seater or (US) roadster form at the 1948 London Motor Show as a testbed and show car for the new Jaguar XK engine designed by Jaguar Chief Engineer William Heynes.