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  2. Schempp-Hirth Standard Cirrus - Wikipedia

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    The Standard Cirrus was designed by Dipl. Ing. Klaus Holighaus and flew for the first time in February 1969. It is a Standard Class glider with a 15-metre span, and laminar-flow airfoil section designed by Professor Franz Wortmann .

  3. Specialized Bicycle Components - Wikipedia

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    A 2008 Specialized Stumpjumper with full suspension A 2008 Specialized S-Works Transition carbon triathlon/time trial bike. In 1995, Specialized launched the Full Force brand. [13] Full Force was a lower-end mountain bike brand sold through sporting goods stores and discount retailers such as Costco. [5] The move angered some Specialized dealers.

  4. Payload fraction - Wikipedia

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    Vehicle Liftoff Mass Payload Mass to LEO Mass ratio Payload fraction Falcon 9 Block 5: 549,054 kg + 22,800 kg 22,800 kg 25.1 3.99% Proton-M: 705,000 kg + 23,000 kg

  5. Slide rule - Wikipedia

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    Because pairs of numbers that are aligned on the logarithmic scales form constant ratios, no matter how the scales are offset, slide rules can be used to generate equivalent fractions that solve proportion and percent problems. For example, setting 7.5 on one scale over 10 on the other scale, the user can see that at the same time 1.5 is over 2 ...

  6. Calculator - Wikipedia

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    The first American-made pocket-sized calculator, the Bowmar 901B (popularly termed The Bowmar Brain), measuring 5.2 by 3.0 by 1.5 inches (132 mm × 76 mm × 38 mm), came out in the Autumn of 1971, with four functions and an eight-digit red LED display, for US$240, while in August 1972 the four-function Sinclair Executive became the first ...

  7. Baker percentage - Wikipedia

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    100% water: 3.5 kg: 3.5 kg ÷ 10 ... The flour's mass times the formula percentage equals the ... each ingredient's true percentage in order to calculate each ...

  8. Specific weight - Wikipedia

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    The specific weight, also known as the unit weight (symbol γ, the Greek letter gamma), is a volume-specific quantity defined as the weight W divided by the volume V of a material: = / Equivalently, it may also be formulated as the product of density, ρ, and gravity acceleration, g: = Its unit of measurement in the International System of Units (SI) is newton per cubic metre (N/m 3), with ...

  9. Hundredweight - Wikipedia

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    The long or imperial hundredweight of 8 stone or 112 pounds (50.80 kg) is defined in the British imperial system. [2] Under both conventions, there are 20 hundredweight in a ton, producing a "short ton" of 2,000 pounds (907.2 kg) and a "long ton" of 2,240 pounds (1,016 kg).