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  2. Cuban eight - Wikipedia

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    A Cuban eight or Cuban 8 is a figure eight aerobatic maneuver for both full-scale and radio-controlled fixed-wing aircraft. Variations include the half Cuban eight and reverse half Cuban eight, intended as directional changes and which are listed below. Both the basic maneuver and its name are said to have been invented by Len Povey, an ...

  3. Radio-controlled aerobatics - Wikipedia

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    The Cuban 8 is a combination move involving both regular and inverted flight. The figure 8 maneuver is started from straight and level flight, and then pulling up and over into inverted flight. Rolling 180 degrees puts the airframe back to normal orientation to cross over in the middle of the eight and then pull back up into inverted flight again.

  4. Pressure point - Wikipedia

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    Muscular gouging techniques demonstration by a Marine Corps Martial Arts instructor. The earliest known concept of pressure points can be seen in the South Indian Varma kalai based on Siddha.

  5. Training manual - Wikipedia

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    A training manual is a document, a book or booklet of instructions and information, used as an aid to learning a task, skill, or job. [1] Training manuals are widely used, including in business and the military. [citation needed] A training manual may be particularly useful as: an introduction to subject matter prior to training

  6. List of equipment of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces

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    MP5A3 used by Black Wasp (Cuban Special Forces) Uzi [5] 9×19mm: Submachine gun Israel: Star Model Z-45 [6] 9×23mm: Submachine gun Spain: M3 Grease Gun [7] 9×19mm: Submachine gun United States: M3 and M3A1 Shotguns Browning Auto-5 [8] 12 gauge: Semi-automatic shotgun United States: Rifles SKS: 7.62×39mm: Semi-automatic rifle Soviet Union

  7. Cubana de Aviación accidents and incidents - Wikipedia

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    The An-24B was on a training flight, while the DC-8 was on a scheduled Montreal–Havana passenger flight as Flight 455. The first aircraft crashed, killing all five occupants on board; the DC-8 landed safely, despite having the outer portion of a wing and an engine sheared off. [20] [21] DC-8-43: CU-T1200 W/O 0 /29 6 October 1976: Bridgetown ...

  8. Guerrilla Warfare (Che Guevara book) - Wikipedia

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    Guerrilla Warfare is a manual for left-wing insurgency which draws upon Guevara's experience in the Cuban Revolution. It elaborates the foco theory (foquismo) of revolution in which the guerrilla operates as a vanguard, taking initiative to make revolution without waiting for ideal conditions to present themselves.

  9. Cuban cuisine - Wikipedia

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    A typical Cuban sandwich. A Cuban sandwich (sometimes called a mixto, especially in Cuba [6] [7]) is a popular lunch item that grew out of the once-open flow of cigar workers between Cuba and Florida (specifically Key West and the Ybor City neighborhood of Tampa) in the late 19th century and has since spread to other Cuban American communities.