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2. Demolition derby - Wikipedia

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   Competition at the West End Fair Demolition Derby, Gilbert, Pennsylvania. This annual event is held on three successive nights each August, with approximately 100 automobiles entered each night. Attendance at the event ranges from 2,000-4,000 spectators. Demolition derby is a type of motorsport, usually presented at county fairs and

3. Islip Speedway - Wikipedia

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   Islip Speedway was a .2-mile (320-meter) oval race track in Islip, New York which was open from 1947 until 1984. [1] [2] It is the smallest track to host NASCAR's Grand National Series, [3] [4] from 1964 to 1971. [1] [3] The first demolition derby took place at Islip Speedway in 1958. [5] The idea was patented by Larry Mendelsohn, who worked at ...

4. Two-stroke engine - Wikipedia

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   (A four-stroke engine requires four strokes of the piston to complete a power cycle, in two crankshaft revolutions.) In a two-stroke engine, the end of the combustion stroke and the beginning of the compression stroke happen simultaneously, with the intake and exhaust (or scavenging) functions occurring at the same time.

5. Rolls-Royce Crecy - Wikipedia

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   The open end uncovered the exhaust ports high in the cylinder wall at the bottom of the sleeves' stroke, leaving the ports cut into the sleeve to handle the incoming charge only. The sleeves had a stroke of 30% of the piston travel at 1.950 in (49.5 mm) and operated 15 degrees in advance of the crankshaft . [ 5 ]

6. Scavenging (engine) - Wikipedia

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   The uniflow method of scavenging has been often used for two-stroke diesel engines in motor vehicles, marine vessels, railway locomotives and as stationary engines. Its drawback is the additional complexity, mass, volume, and cost required to implement the poppet valvetrain (or the additional crankshaft or rocker arms required to control a ...

7. Crosshead - Wikipedia

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   A crosshead as part of a reciprocating piston and slider-crank linkage mechanism. Cylindrical trunk guide Hudswell Clarke Nunlow; crosshead and two slide bars. In mechanical engineering, a crosshead [1] is a mechanical joint used as part of the slider-crank linkages of long stroke reciprocating engines (either internal combustion or steam) and reciprocating compressors [2] to eliminate ...

8. The NBA has a 'missing stars' problem with injuries piling up ...

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   In Year 2 of the NBA’s Player Participation Policy, star players are on pace to miss over 1,000 games this season, with games missed by star players up 24 percent in the early going compared to ...

9. Dead centre (engineering) - Wikipedia

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   Top dead center in a gasoline engine. In a reciprocating engine, the dead centre is the position of a piston in which it is either farthest from, or nearest to, the crankshaft. The former is known as top dead centre (TDC) while the latter is known as bottom dead centre (BDC). [1] Position of pistons