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  • Thumbnail for Flap (aeronautics)
    A flap is a high-lift device used to reduce the stalling speed of an aircraft wing at a given weight. Flaps are usually mounted on the wing trailing edges...
    32 KB (4,043 words) - 06:09, 26 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Breechblock
    can be employed. The breechblock in a sliding block slides across the face of the breech to close it. The sliding action is perpendicular to the axis of...
    30 KB (3,745 words) - 12:34, 17 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Okazaki fragments
    proposed to process Okazaki fragments: the short flap pathway and the long flap pathway. In the short flap pathway in eukaryotes the lagging strand of DNA...
    33 KB (4,435 words) - 14:24, 7 June 2024
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    Sluice (redirect from Slide gate)
    hydraulically powered. A flap sluice, however, operates automatically, without external intervention or inputs.[citation needed] Flap sluice gate A fully automatic...
    13 KB (1,426 words) - 17:06, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Leading-edge slat
    the slat lies flush with the rest of the wing. A slat is deployed by sliding forward, opening a slot between the wing and the slat. Air from below the...
    11 KB (1,377 words) - 21:44, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nasal cartilages
    Onur; Uygur, Safak; Ayhan, Suhan; Atabay, Kenan (2009). "Sliding Alar Cartilage (SAC) Flap: A New Technique for Nasal Tip Surgery". Annals of Plastic...
    16 KB (1,953 words) - 17:20, 28 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for High-lift device
    facilitate operations from smaller aircraft carriers. Another approach is to use the airflow from the engines directly, by placing a flap so that it deploys...
    9 KB (1,240 words) - 16:01, 11 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Spanair Flight 5022
    cockpit recordings revealed that the pilots omitted the "set and check the flap/slat lever and lights" item in the After Start checklist. In the Takeoff...
    50 KB (4,538 words) - 22:56, 3 August 2024
  • complexity of the operation, leading to prolonged operation times, the need for specialised personnel, and the chance for total flap necrosis due to microvascular...
    22 KB (2,299 words) - 05:00, 5 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Psychological operations (United States)
    Psychological operations (PSYOP) are operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their motives and objective reasoning...
    90 KB (10,396 words) - 23:36, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Overwing exits
    continue off the trailing edge, either by sliding down the extended Flaps or by using an evacuation slide that deploys when the exit is opened. Overwing...
    8 KB (1,131 words) - 20:16, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Trapdoor
    A trapdoor is a sliding or hinged door that is flush with the surface of a floor, ceiling, or roof. It is traditionally small in size. It was invented...
    6 KB (590 words) - 18:40, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Evacuation slide
    Widebody aircraft. Slides and slide/rafts can be detached from the aircraft. This may, for example, involve lifting up the flap on the girt bar, and pulling...
    22 KB (3,123 words) - 21:57, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for SIG Sauer M17
    chamber indicator. Improved slide sub-assembly to capture small components when disassembled. Improved trigger "mud flap" to prevent foreign debris from...
    22 KB (2,311 words) - 03:10, 29 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Delta Air Lines Flight 1141
    remained airborne for another 400 feet (120 m) before it struck the ground, sliding sideways and leaving a trail of wreckage 800 feet (240 m) long before finally...
    25 KB (2,581 words) - 04:52, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mandala Airlines Flight 091
    to a failure of the flap system. Examination of the wreckage could not identify faults that could affect the flap actuator and flap position indicator...
    43 KB (4,595 words) - 12:51, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pan Am Flight 845
    reference speeds (V1, Vr and V2), which had been calculated for the lesser flap setting and were thus too high for their actual takeoff configuration. Consequently...
    18 KB (2,020 words) - 23:13, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for All-purpose Lightweight Individual Carrying Equipment
    EVA and the top flap is secured by means of two metal snap fasteners. It attaches to the individual equipment belt by means of two slide keepers. The intrenching...
    45 KB (5,962 words) - 00:48, 30 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Killing of Osama bin Laden
    as DEVGRU). The operation, code-named Operation Neptune Spear, was carried out in a CIA-led mission, with the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) coordinating...
    237 KB (24,757 words) - 01:04, 4 August 2024
  • a hinged flap Line blind valve: a thin sheet oriented perpendicular to the pipe. The sheet has a solid end and a flow-through end; sliding it from one...
    11 KB (1,410 words) - 14:49, 11 July 2024
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