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In addition to being the world's largest privately held cruise company, employing about 23,500 people worldwide and with offices in 45 countries as of 2017, [1] MSC Cruises is the third-largest cruise company in the world, after Carnival Corporation & plc and Royal Caribbean Group, with a 10.2% share of all passengers carried in 2021.
The Fiat A.14 was an Italian 12-cylinder, liquid-cooled, V aero engine of World War I. The A.14 held the distinction at the end of World War I of being the largest and most powerful aircraft engine in the world. First produced in 1917, 500 were built by the end of the war.
Around 1921, Hall-Scott dropped its aero engine and rail car product lines, and expanded into building engines for tractors, trucks, boats, and stationary applications. The firm produced several hundred thousand two-speed rear axles, the Ruckstell Axle, for Ford's Model T through the mid-1920s.
Bombing during World War I at centennialofflight.gov; Boris Rustam-Bek-Tageev (1916). Aerial Russia: The Romance of the Giant Aeroplane. Рипол Классик. ISBN 978-5-87787-214-1. The United States Air Service in World War I – usaww1.com; The League of World War I Aviation Historians and Over the Front Magazine – overthefront.com ...
The Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation (abbreviated MSC) was an American corporation established in 1917 by railroad heir W. Averell Harriman to build merchant ships for the Allied war effort in World War I. The MSC operated two shipyards: the former shipyard of John Roach & Sons at Chester, Pennsylvania, and a second, newly established ...
During World War II Air-cooled Motors was very successful producing helicopter and airplane engines. Several aircraft carried its engines, including the Aero-Flight Streak , Bartlett Zephyr , Bell 47 , Bellanca Cruisair , Brantly B-1 , Goodyear Duck , H-23 Raven , Hiller 360 , Piper J-3F Cub , Seibel S-4 , Sikorsky S-52 , Stinson Voyager ...
The D.III line of engines would find themselves eclipsed in performance by the BMW IIIa of 138 kW (185 hp) and then 150 kW (200 hp)(British rated it at 170 kW (230 hp)) in 1918, however, the small number of BMW's produced ensured that the Mercedes D.III series would be the primary German fighter engine up to the last month or two of the war and ...
A World War I poster for the US Shipping Board, ca. 1917–18.. The Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) was established by the United States Shipping Board, sometimes referred to as the War Shipping Board, on 16 April 1917 [1] pursuant to the Shipping Act (39 Stat. 729) to acquire, maintain, and operate merchant ships to meet national defense, foreign and domestic commerce during World War I.