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The design used an improved version of the Whirlwind I magnetic core memory and was an extension of the Whirlwind II computer program, renamed AN/FSQ-7 in 1953 to comply with Air Force nomenclature. It has been suggested the FSQ-7 was based on the IBM 701 but, while the 701 was investigated by MIT engineers, its design was ultimately rejected ...
The Whirlwind exhibited excellent handling characteristics and proved to be very easy to fly at all speeds. The only exception was the inadequate directional control during take-off which necessitated an increased rudder area above the tailplane. [11] Whirlwind I undergoing fighter-bomber trials at the A&AEE.
The Butterworth Westland Whirlwind was a 2/3 scale flying replica of the British Westland Whirlwind fighter aircraft of World War II that was built in the United States in the 1970s. The aircraft was based on the wings and horizontal tail of a Grumman American AA-1A modified and mated to an all-new fuselage .
Critchlow's comic book career began in the early 1980s, when he contributed to fanzines and informal publications. [1] His professional career began in 1983 when his work was published in Issue 45 of Games Workshop's White Dwarf magazine, [2] where Critchlow first portrayed his fantasy barbarian character, Thrud the Barbarian, in a regular, page-long, black and white, ink-drawn strip of the ...
The Westland Whirlwind helicopter was a British licence-built version of the U.S. Sikorsky S-55/H-19 Chickasaw.It primarily served with the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm in anti-submarine and search and rescue roles.
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H-19 at National Museum of the United States Air Force, showing unusual mounting of engine. Major innovations implemented on the H-19 were the forward placement of the engine below the crew compartment and in front of the main cabin, the use of offset flapping hinges located nine inches (230 mm) from the center of the rotor, and the use of hydraulic servos for the main rotor controls.
Lin Carter calls Brak the Barbarian "a splendid job," "one of the best Sword and Sorcery books of the year, and marvelous entertainment." He notes "[t]he Brak stories are unabashedly Conanesque in style and flavor: Howard's hero formed the pattern for the genre and John Jakes has limited himself to working in strict traditional confines.