enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Optimist (dinghy) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimist_(dinghy)

    It was the biggest hull Clark Mills could make from two 4 ft by 8 ft sheets. Just in front of a bulkhead, which partitions the boat nearly in half, is the daggerboard case. Right behind it on the centerline of the hull floor are attached a block and a ratchet block. These anchor the sheet and a block on the boom directly above.

  3. Hummel Bird - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummel_Bird

    Fuselage: The plans state that a builder can increase the width and/or height of the bulkheads in an effort to make the fuselage more hospitable for larger pilots. Engines: The standard engine for the design is the four-stroke, 1/2 VW engine , an engine literally made by cutting the block of a standard four-cylinder VW engine in half.

  4. Aft pressure bulkhead - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aft_pressure_bulkhead

    The aft pressure bulkhead is the white circular component; its web-like structure led a NASA technician to attach a large model spider to it for comedic effect. The aft pressure bulkhead or rear pressure bulkhead is the rear component of the pressure seal in all aircraft that cruise in a tropopause zone in the Earth's atmosphere. [1]

  5. A barge, a bulkhead and $3.3 million: How the Mississippi ...

    www.aol.com/barge-bulkhead-3-3-million-110547322...

    The bulkhead, left, prevents water from entering at Lock and Dam No. 2 so work can be done on the gates to the chamber, right, Jan. 30 on the Mississippi River in Hastings, Minnesota.

  6. Ship stability - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_stability

    Ship stability illustration explaining the stable and unstable dynamics of buoyancy (B), center of buoyancy (CB), center of gravity (CG), and weight (W) Ship stability is an area of naval architecture and ship design that deals with how a ship behaves at sea, both in still water and in waves, whether intact or damaged.

  7. Compartment (ship) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartment_(ship)

    A compartment is a portion of the space within a ship defined vertically between decks and horizontally between bulkheads.It is analogous to a room within a building, and may provide watertight subdivision of the ship's hull important in retaining buoyancy if the hull is damaged.

  8. Strength of ships - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strength_of_ships

    The strength of ships is a topic of key interest to naval architects and shipbuilders. Ships which are built too strong are heavy, slow, and cost extra money to build and operate since they weigh more, whilst ships which are built too weakly suffer from minor hull damage and in some extreme cases catastrophic failure and sinking.

  9. Torpedo bulkhead - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo_bulkhead

    In multi-bulkhead systems, the innermost bulkhead is commonly referred to as the "holding bulkhead", [5] and often this bulkhead would be manufactured from high-tensile steel that could deform and absorb the pressure pulse from a torpedo hit without breaking. If the final bulkhead was at least 37 mm thick, it may also be referred to as an ...