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A crash cushion installed on a motorway exit in Italy. An impact attenuator, also known as a crash cushion, crash attenuator, or cowboy cushion, is a device intended to reduce the damage to structures, vehicles, and motorists resulting from a motor vehicle collision. Impact attenuators are designed to absorb the colliding vehicle's kinetic energy.
The Northrop F-89 Scorpion is an all-weather, twin-engined interceptor aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Northrop Corporation.It was the first jet-powered aircraft to be designed for the interceptor role from the outset to enter service, [1] as well as the first combat aircraft to be armed with air-to-air nuclear weapons in the form of the unguided Genie rocket.
F-89H Scorpion, Fourth (and last) production model; adaptation of the missile-armed F-89D to carry the new AIM-4 Falcon air-to-air missile, 156 produced. First assigned to the 445th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, Wurtsmith AFB, Michigan in March 1956. [1] All transferred to Air National Guard by September 1959. [5]
Attenuator (electronics), an electronic device that reduces the amplitude of an electronic signal. Optical attenuator, an electronic device that reduces the amplitude of an optical signal. Attenuator (genetics), a specific regulatory sequence transcribed into RNA. Impact attenuator, used on highways as a crumple zone in case of a car crash.
The 1957 crash was discussed on the May 19, 1957, episode of The CBS Radio Workshop (entitled "Heaven Is In the Sky"). [10] [11] The program described when and how both planes took off from their respective airfields, and included discussion of how the Pacoima Junior High School was having the 7th-grade students outside for exercise. It also ...
A Lockheed T-33A-1-LO Shooting Star, 49-917, of the 5th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 52d Fighter-Interceptor Group, crashes on take off from McGuire Air Force Base into a scrub pine forest at adjacent Fort Dix, New Jersey, killing the two crew and spraying burning fuel over a group of 54 U.S. Army soldiers assigned to B battery of the Ninth ...
The Scorpion is designed to cheaply perform armed reconnaissance using sensors to cruise above 15,000 ft, higher than most ground fire can reach, and still be rugged enough to sustain minimal damage. [26] The Scorpion is designed to be affordable, costing US$3,000 per flight hour, with a unit cost expected to be below US$20 million. [22]
The RotorWay Scorpion Too at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. The Scorpion Too, or Scorpion II, was the first two-seater manufactured by RotorWay. It took about 2,000 hours to complete. Gross weight: 1,125 lb (510 kg) Useful load: 435 lb (197 kg) Range: 125 miles (201 km) Cruise speed: 75 mph (121 km/h) Rate of climb: 1,000 ft/min at sea level