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  2. Airspace class (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Class C airspace is denoted by a heavy magenta border. Each distinct segment of class C airspace contains figures indicating the upper and lower altitude limits of that segment in units of one hundred feet, shown as a fraction, e.g., 100 over 40 indicates a ceiling of 10,000 feet (3,000 m) MSL and a floor of 4,000 feet (1,200 m) MSL.

  3. List of Class B airports in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Class B airspace areas are designed to improve aviation safety by reducing the risk of midair collisions in the airspace surrounding airports with high-density air traffic operations. [1] Aircraft operating in these airspace areas are subject to certain operating rules and equipment requirements. [1] Class B airspace protects the approach and ...

  4. Top-shelf liquor - Wikipedia

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    Top-shelf liquor (or "premium liquor") is a term used in marketing to describe higher-priced alcoholic beverages, typically stored on the top shelves within bars. [1] This contrasts to a "rail" or well drink , which are lower cost beverages typically stored on the lower shelves of the bartender's rack.

  5. Special flight rules area - Wikipedia

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    Long established in the Los Angeles basin is the Los Angeles SFRA. Los Angeles International Airport is surrounded by extensive Class B airspace, which is difficult for VFR traffic to navigate. In particular, the airport has four large runways running east/west that have airspace protection from 10,000 feet (3050 metres) down to the surface ...

  6. Los Angeles-class submarine - Wikipedia

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    The Los Angeles class of submarines are nuclear-powered fast attack submarines in service with the United States Navy. Also known as the 688 class (pronounced "six-eighty-eight") after the hull number of lead vessel USS Los Angeles (SSN-688) , 62 were built from 1972 to 1996, the latter 23 to an improved 688i standard.

  7. Mode C veil - Wikipedia

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    This airspace extends horizontally to a circle of 30 NM radius centered on the airport, and extends vertically from the surface up to 10,000 feet MSL. [1] The name refers to the mode of transponder operation which is required within this airspace — that is, with very limited exceptions, all aircraft operating within this airspace must have an ...

  8. Alcoholic beverage - Wikipedia

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    Drinking hard liquor was common occurrence in early nineteenth-century United States. [29] The Whiskey Rebellion (also known as the Whiskey Insurrection) was a violent tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a ...

  9. USS Norfolk (SSN-714) - Wikipedia

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    Class and type: Los Angeles-class submarine: Displacement: 5,751 tons light, 6,126 tons full, 375 tons dead: Length: 110.3 m (361 ft 11 in) Beam: 10 m (32 ft 10 in) Draft: 9.7 m (31 ft 10 in) Propulsion: S6G nuclear reactor: Complement: 12 officers, 98 enlisted: Armament: 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes