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Foam core/prepreg carbonfiber flybridge sloop Polaris: 50.42 m (165 ft) Lürssen: 1977: auxiliary steel schooner, converted from the 1954 torpedo boat hull of HMS Polaris: Blue Gold: 50.00 m (164 ft) Benetti: Laurent Giles Naval Architects: 1982: Flybridge staysail auxiliary steel ketch, originally White Gull: Phryne: 50.00 m (164 ft) Perini ...
Being derived from the F-86, the Sabreliner is the only business jet authorised for aerobatics and is used by two California companies: Flight Research Inc. and Patriots Jet Team, for inflight upset-recovery training to reduce loss-of-control, involving full stalls, fully inverted flight, and 20-40° descents in a 2.8g envelope, within its 3g ...
42-104751/NZ3147 – restoration to flying with Pioneer Aero Ltd, Ardmore Airfield for Brett Nicholls. Rebuild will include rear seat and dual controls [citation needed] 42-104746/NZ3143 – restoration to airworthy by Chris Evans at Napier, New Zealand. Stored P-40K. 42-10178/A29-183 – stored pending restoration by Graham Orphan in Blenheim ...
A bridge (also known as a command deck), or wheelhouse (also known as a pilothouse), is a room or platform of a ship, submarine, airship, or spaceship from which the ship can be commanded.
The owner specifications combined fast sailing with motoryacht amenities. [4] M5 has achieved speeds in excess of 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) in 8 1/2 ft seas. [1] To achieve the amenity requirements, a single mast was preferred to other rig types in order to maximize interior volumes in keel-stepped sailing yachts; To achieve the performance requirements, the higher aspect ratio of the single ...
Bayesian was a flybridge sloop designed by Ron Holland [1] and built by Perini Navi with a 56 m (184 ft) long aluminium hull and superstructure and a single-masted cutter rig. One of the world's largest sailing yachts , it was one of a number of similar vessels from this designer and shipyard, though the only one of their ten 56-metre series ...
The Cold War developed between the Soviet bloc and the United States, Canada, and Western European nations. [5] Tensions were highest between the United States and the Soviet Union in the regions bordering the Iron Curtain, notably West Germany and East Germany, and relations between the two superpowers were characterized by hostile attitudes, spying, and numerous incidents resulting in loss ...
USS Wichita was a unique heavy cruiser of the United States Navy built in the 1930s. The last American cruiser designed to meet the limits of the London Naval Treaty, she was originally intended to be a New Orleans-class heavy cruiser, accordingly with the maximum main armament of three triple 8-inch (203 mm) gun turrets.