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  2. Miss Shilling's orifice - Wikipedia

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    The Rolls-Royce Merlin engine originally came with a direct carburettor, prone to cut-out due to fuel flooding in negative G. Miss Shilling's orifice was a very simple technical device created to counter engine cut-outs experienced during negative G manoeuvres in early Spitfire and Hurricane fighter aeroplanes during the Battle of Britain.

  3. Restrictor plate - Wikipedia

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    Artist rendering of a NASCAR restrictor plate. A restrictor plate or air restrictor is a device installed at the intake of an engine to limit its power. This kind of system is occasionally used in road vehicles (e.g., motorcycles) for insurance purposes, but mainly in automobile racing, to limit top speed to provide equal level of competition, and to lower costs; insurance purposes have also ...

  4. File:Standard Form 86 - "Questionnaire for National Security ...

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    Standard Form 86 - Questionnaire for National Security: Image title: Questionnaire for National Security: Author: OPM: Software used: Adobe LiveCycle Designer 11.0: Conversion program: Adobe LiveCycle Designer 11.0: Encrypted: no: Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter) Version of PDF format: 1.7

  5. Geared continuous hinge - Wikipedia

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    A geared continuous hinge is a type of continuous hinge used mostly on doors in high-traffic entrances and features gear teeth that mesh together under a cap that runs the length of the hinge. The hinges use a number of fasteners to attach the door to the frame from top to bottom to distribute a door’s weight more evenly along the frame to ...

  6. Hinge - Wikipedia

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    An ornate brass door hinge A barrel hinge. A hinge is a mechanical bearing that connects two solid objects, typically allowing only a limited angle of rotation between them. Two objects connected by an ideal hinge rotate relative to each other about a fixed axis of rotation, with all other translations or rotations prevented; thus a hinge has one degree of freedom.

  7. Dihedral synchro-helix actuation doors - Wikipedia

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    The dihedral synchro-helix actuation door system is a type of door with a hinge mechanism which allows the doors to rotate 90° by sweeping outwards and upwards at the hinge. [1] It was designed and developed by Christian von Koenigsegg on behalf of high-performance sports cars manufacturer, Koenigsegg Automotive AB . [ 2 ]

  8. Helicopter rotor - Wikipedia

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    The horizontal hinge, called the flapping hinge, allows the blade to move up and down. This movement is called flapping and is designed to compensate for dissymmetry of lift . The flapping hinge may be located at varying distances from the rotor hub, and there may be more than one hinge.

  9. File:EUR 2013-86.pdf - Wikipedia

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