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  2. List of United States Navy ratings - Wikipedia

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    Service ratings are established, changed, or removed depending on service requirements and changes in the way personnel are managed. 4 Compression ratings (AF, AV, CU, CB): Identify the combining of several general or service ratings at paygrade E-9 (E-8 for CU) to form broader career fields when the occupational content is similar.

  3. Emergency brake (train) - Wikipedia

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    Driver's brake handle in a class 317 electric multiple unit. On trains, the expression emergency brake has several meanings: . The maximum brake force available to the engine driver from the conventional braking system, usually operated by taking the brake handle to its furthest position, through a gate mechanism, or by pushing a separate plunger in the cab.

  4. Brake - Wikipedia

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    However, brakes are rarely applied at full throttle; the driver takes the right foot off the gas pedal and moves it to the brake pedal - unless left-foot braking is used. Because of low vacuum at high RPM, reports of unintended acceleration are often accompanied by complaints of failed or weakened brakes, as the high-revving engine, having an ...

  5. Press brake - Wikipedia

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    A press brake bending a sheet of steel. A press brake is a type of brake, a machine used for bending sheet metal and metal plate. [1] It forms predetermined bends by clamping the workpiece between a matching top tool and bottom die.

  6. Cooper–Harper rating scale - Wikipedia

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    The Cooper-Harper Handling Qualities Rating Scale [1] (HQRS), sometimes Cooper-Harper Rating Scale (CHRS), is a pilot rating scale, a set of criteria used by test pilots and flight test engineers to evaluate the handling qualities of aircraft while performing a task during a flight test. The scale ranges from 1 to 10, with 1 indicating the best ...

  7. Global NCAP - Wikipedia

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    Global NCAP logo, 2017 revision. Global New Car Assessment Programme (Global NCAP) is a project of the Towards Zero Foundation, a UK-registered charity. The programme serves as an umbrella organisation encouraging co-operation between the various New Car Assessment Programmes around the world, [1] and a consumer test for vehicle safety in markets that are weakly regulated or do not yet have ...

  8. Activity relationship chart - Wikipedia

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    An activity relationship chart (ARC) is a tabular means of displaying the closeness rating among all pairs of activities or departments. [1] In an ARC there are six closeness ratings which may be assigned to each pair of departments, as well as nine reasons for those ratings (each is assigned by a reason code).

  9. Brake (sheet metal bending) - Wikipedia

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    Manually driven bending brake Cornice brake Hydraulic press - 400T. A brake is a metalworking machine that allows the bending of sheet metal.A cornice brake only allows for simple bends and creases, while a box-and-pan brake also allows one to form box and pan shapes.