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Anker Innovations Co., Ltd, [a] commonly known as Anker, [b] is a Chinese electronics manufacturer based in Changsha, Hunan, China. The company's product range includes phone chargers, power banks, earbuds, headphones, speakers, data hubs, 3D printers , charging cables, torches (flashlights), and screen protectors, among other products.
Australia II was designed by Ben Lexcen, built by Steve Ward, owned by Alan Bond and skippered by John Bertrand. [2] Lexcen's Australia II design featured a reduced waterline length and a short chord winged keel which gave the boat a significant advantage in manoeuvrability and heeling moment (lower ballast centre of gravity) but it was a significant disadvantage in choppy seas.
Since the introduction of the motor engine in the 1970s, the formerly widespread Philippine sailing traditions have mostly been lost. [28] Most modern bangka are motorized and are known as "pump boats" (or pambot) or lancha (lantsa). Smaller boats usually use gasoline or diesel engines, while larger boats can use recycled automobile engines. [29]
de Havilland Marine was a division of Hawker de Havilland Australia Pty. Ltd. which is now owned by Boeing Australia and known as Boeing Aerostructures Australia.. Following the downturn of aviation manufacturing in the late 1950s, the Australian subsidiary of de Havilland looked to produce products utilizing the skills and knowledge available to the company.
2 Two Island-class patrol boats are set to be donated by the United States as part of US Military Assistance following talks between US President Joe Biden and Philippine President Bongbong Marcos in May 2023. The deal also includes the potential transfer of 3 C-130 H transport planes and 2 Marine Protector-class patrol boats. [80] [81]
2007: The Wes Anderson-driven Banks "Sidewinder" S-10 with a 1250-hp, 6.6 litre Banks Power/Duramax engine becomes the "World's Quickest and Fastest Diesel Drag Truck" with a 7.72 second elapsed time and a top speed of 179+ mph in the quarter-mile, as recorded by the National Hot Rod Diesel Association.
A pump boat (usually variation as pambot in local languages) is an outrigger canoe (bangka 'boat') native to Southeast Asia powered by a small gasoline or diesel engine. Smaller pump boats might be powered by the sort of small single-cylinder engine used to drive a water pump. Larger ones are often powered by recycled automobile engines. [1]
Anker (automobile), manufactured in Germany Anker Innovations ( 安克 ), a Chinese electronics brand producing computer and smartphone peripherals Anker Beer , an Indonesian brand of pale lager