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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 ...
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The Sling TSi is a South African four-seat, single-engine, low-wing homebuilt aircraft sold in kit form by Sling Aircraft of Johannesburg South. [1] It was developed from the Sling 4 . The Sling TSi first flew in 2018, [ 2 ] with kits being shipped to builders [ 3 ] in fall 2018.
Formula DRIFT (also known as Formula D or FD) is an American drifting series, and was co-founded by Jim Liaw and Ryan Sage in 2003 as a sister company to Slipstream Global Marketing, the same partnership that introduced D1 Grand Prix to the United States. The new entity would solely own, operate and launch the first official drifting series in ...
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 ...
Drift Masters (also known as DM) is a European drifting series founded in 2014. [1] The championship was originally called Drift Masters Grand Prix until aligning with Zigen Promotions (parent company of the Irish Drift Championship and British Drift Championship) to create an official partnership and rebranding to Drift Masters European Championship. [2]
Some drift meters were purely optical (e.g., USAAF Type B-5 drift meter), while others included electrically powered gyroscope (e.g., USAAF Type B-3 drift meter). [2] USAAF Type B-5 drift meter was also equipped with a simple flight computer (a rotating wheel) to calculate the ground speed from the measured time that takes for a ground object ...
Saito debuted a 1,200 hp Nissan GTR in April 2015 at the Formula DRIFT Streets of Long Beach event, and campaigned the car for the 2015 Formula DRIFT USA season. [citation needed] Saito did not participate in Formula Drift 2016, concentrating (and winning) on D1 Grand Prix series instead. He did the same in 2017. [citation needed]