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Data from Pitts model 12.com General characteristics Capacity: 2 Length: 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m) Wingspan: 23 ft (7.0 m) Empty weight: 1,550 lb (703 kg) Gross weight: 2,250 lb (1,021 kg) Fuel capacity: 54 gal Powerplant: 1 × Vedeneyev M14P/PF, 360 hp (270 kW) Propellers: 3-bladed MT Propeller Performance Cruise speed: 150 kn (170 mph, 270 km/h) Stall speed: 56 kn (64 mph, 103 km/h) Range: 430 nmi ...
A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls.The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon.
From a flat bar of soft iron, hand forged into a gun barrel; laboriously bored and rifled with crude tools; fitted with a stock hewn from a maple tree in the neighboring forest; and supplied with a lock hammered to shape on the anvil; an unknown smith, in a shop long since silent, fashioned a rifle which changed the whole course of world history; made possible the settlement of a continent ...
The Town, now known as Robbins, North Carolina actually began in 1795 when gunsmith Alexander Kennedy and his family left Philadelphia to settle along Bear Creek. Kennedy set up a factory, which produced long rifles for American soldiers, near the site of the present day Robbins Water Plant.
The concept for Build or Bust was that host and custom motorcycle builder Russell Mitchell took in a member of the public who thought it would be easy to build a bike "just like the guys on TV." Russell gave the guy (or girl) access to all the tools and parts necessary to make a custom motorcycle , allowing the contestant one month to assemble it.
Sullivan served in the US Army, from 1953 to 1955, [1] although he was trained by the Army to be a telephone installer and repairman. [1] Due to his civilian training he went overseas to Korea in 1954, where he was assigned by the Army to be a diver to repair oil pipelines and other facilities damaged during the US invasion of Inchon Harbor.
The Woodstock was designed in the late 1970s by Maupin, with assistance from Irv Culver, who designed the airfoil for the wing. Culver's airfoil is of 18% thickness at the root, thinning to 13% thickness at the wing tip and incorporates no washout.
Jim Shockey (born 1957) is a Canadian outdoor writer, a professional big game outfitter and television producer and host for many hunting shows. Shockey is the former producer and host of Jim Shockey's Hunting Adventures and Jim Shockey's Uncharted on Outdoor Channel and Jim Shockey's The Professionals on Outdoor Channel and Sportsman Channel.