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  2. Vertical launching system - Wikipedia

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    The system in question contained 4 revolving drums of 48 tubes for 5V55RM missiles A Tomahawk missile canister being offloaded from a VLS aboard the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur. A vertical launching system (VLS) is an advanced system for holding and firing missiles on mobile naval platforms, such as surface ships and submarines.

  3. USS Curtis Wilbur - Wikipedia

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    USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54) is the fourth Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer. Curtis Wilbur was named for Curtis D. Wilbur, forty-third Secretary of the Navy, who served under President Calvin Coolidge. In 2016, she was based at Yokosuka, Japan, as part of Destroyer Squadron 15. [4]

  4. Curtiss-Wright - Wikipedia

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    The Curtiss-Wright Corporation is a manufacturer and services provider headquartered in Davidson, North Carolina, with factories and operations in and outside the United States. [3]

  5. Curtis D. Wilbur - Wikipedia

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    Curtis Dwight Wilbur (May 10, 1867 – September 8, 1954) was an American lawyer, California state judge, 43rd United States Secretary of the Navy and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

  6. Ray Lyman Wilbur - Wikipedia

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    Ray Lyman Wilbur (April 13, 1875 – June 26, 1949) was an American politician, physician, and eugenicist. [1] He was a medical doctor who served as the third president of Stanford University and as the 31st United States Secretary of the Interior under President Herbert Hoover , also a Stanford alum.

  7. Dwight Wilbur - Wikipedia

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    Dwight Wilbur may refer to: Curtis D. Wilbur (1867–1954), American lawyer and judge Dwight Locke Wilbur (1903–1997), medical doctor and president of the American Medical Association

  8. Piping and instrumentation diagram - Wikipedia

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    Piping and instrumentation diagram of pump with storage tank. Symbols according to EN ISO 10628 and EN 62424. A more complex example of a P&ID. A piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) is defined as follows: A diagram which shows the interconnection of process equipment and the instrumentation used to control the process.

  9. Wright brothers patent war - Wikipedia

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    [7] [8] [9] Even after Wilbur Wright had died, and Orville Wright had retired in 1916 (selling the rights to their patent to a successor company, the Wright-Martin Corp.), the patent war continued, and even expanded, as other manufacturers launched lawsuits of their own—creating a growing crisis in the U.S. aviation industry. [8] [9]