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The Robinson R22 has a "teetering" cyclic design connected to a central column located between the two seats. Helicopters with fly-by-wire systems allow a cyclic-style controller to be mounted to the side of the pilot seat. The cyclic is used to control the main rotor in order to change the helicopter's direction of movement. In a hover, the ...
The Boeing AH-64 Apache (/ ə ˈ p æ tʃ i / ə-PATCH-ee) is an American twin-turboshaft attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear and a tandem cockpit for a crew of two. Nose-mounted sensors help acquire targets and provide night vision.
Glenn Curtiss, unlikely to have been aware of the prior uses of the twist grip, used it in his 1904 motorcycle land-speed record machine, and is sometimes credited as the inventor of the device. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] Indian claimed in their advertisements, also for their 1904 models , to have invented the twist grip. [ 4 ]
The Querecho Indians were an historical band of Apache people living on the Southern Plains. [1] In 1541 the Spanish conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and his army journeyed east from the Rio Grande Valley in search of a rich land called Quivira. Passing through the Texas Panhandle, he met a people he called the Querechos.
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Drawing of an Apache revolver Deleaxhe Apache pistol 7mm. The Apache operates on the principle of a pepperbox revolver using a pinfire cartridge and incorporates a fold-over knuckle duster forming the grip and a rudimentary foldout dual-edged knife. [3] Due to the lack of a barrel, the revolver's effective range is very limited.
A cable grip is a device for propelling a vehicle by attaching to a wire rope (called a haul rope) running at a (relatively) constant speed. The vehicle may be suspended from the cable, as in the case of aerial lifts such as a gondola lift ( télécabine ), may be guided by rails , as in a cable traction railway , or may be self-guiding, as in ...
The Western Apache language is a Southern Athabaskan language spoken among the 14,000 Western Apaches in Mexico in the states of Sonora and Chihuahua and in east-central Arizona.