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The F-16 has a cropped-delta wing incorporating wing-fuselage blending and forebody vortex-control strakes; a fixed-geometry, underslung air intake (with splitter plate [70]) to the single turbofan jet engine; a conventional tri-plane empennage arrangement with all-moving horizontal "stabilator" tailplanes; a pair of ventral fins beneath the ...
Worm-and-gear sets are a simple and compact way to achieve a high torque, low speed gear ratio. For example, helical gears are normally limited to gear ratios of less than 10:1 while worm-and-gear sets vary from 10:1 to 500:1. [45] A disadvantage is the potential for considerable sliding action, leading to low efficiency. [46]
Many elements change how fast the car can accelerate to 60 mph. [ii] [iii] Tires, elevation above sea level, weight of the driver, testing equipment, weather conditions and surface of testing track all influence these times. [3]
The duration from the eighth generation until the start of the ninth was one of the longest in history, having started in 2012 with the release of Nintendo's Wii U.Past generations typically had five-year windows as a result of Moore's law, [9] but Microsoft and Sony instead launched mid-console redesigns, the Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro. [10]
Prior to his disqualification, he had been in fourth place with a time of 9.80 seconds, the fastest fourth place in history. On 29 May 2016, former World Champion Kim Collins improved his personal record by running 9.93 +1.9 in Bottrop as a 40-year-old. He improved his own standing as the oldest man to break the 10-second barrier, the first ...
The longtime Subway slogan, "Eat Fresh", is intended to indicate that their toppings are indeed fresh. It was the fastest-growing franchise in the world in 2015 [11] and, as of September 2023, has over 68,000 locations in more than 102 countries and territories. More than half its locations (21,796 or 61.1%) are in the United States.
Thiel was born in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, on 11 October 1967, to Klaus Friedrich Thiel and his wife Susanne Thiel. [15] [16] The family emigrated to the United States when Peter was one year old and lived in Cleveland, Ohio, where his father worked as a chemical engineer. [17]
Linux is the leading operating system on servers (over 96.4% of the top one million web servers' operating systems are Linux), [48] leads other big iron systems such as mainframe computers, [clarification needed] [49] and is used on all of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers [h] (as of November 2017, having gradually displaced all competitors).