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    hours to many days. Sea trials are conducted to measure a vessel's performance and general seaworthiness. Testing of a vessel's speed, maneuverability, equipment...
    10 KB (1,507 words) - 12:10, 9 November 2024
  • points (Caudron C.278 biplane and Mauboussin M.12). The first trial was a minimal speed trial, to evaluate the aircraft safety, which was new in Challenge...
    20 KB (1,992 words) - 01:56, 1 November 2024
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    Originally, two tracks were prepared; a 10-mile (16 km) long straightaway for speed trials and an oval or circular track for distance runs, which was typically...
    20 KB (1,424 words) - 20:27, 30 June 2024
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    The Lewes Speed Trials were speed trials held on a defunct course in Lewes, Sussex, England, sometimes known as "The Motor Road." The first meeting took...
    9 KB (808 words) - 12:31, 15 April 2024
  • Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials (BMST) (AMA Land Speed Grand Championship / FIM Land Speed World Records) is a motorcycle land speed racing event, held...
    59 KB (935 words) - 21:50, 12 August 2024
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    six-cylinder Napier motorcar, a 75 kW (100 hp) development of the K5, in a speed trial in Blackpool. in 1963, Paula Murphy drove a Studebaker Avanti to 262 km/h...
    39 KB (2,241 words) - 01:38, 19 October 2024
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    Mickey Thompson (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
    demonstrated his Ford-powered Harvey Aluminum Special dragster at the Brighton Speed Trials. It was then displayed at the Racing Car Show in London in January 1964...
    21 KB (2,378 words) - 07:51, 25 October 2024
  • following Heatmiser's dissolution. Book-ended by its two singles, "Speed Trials" and "Ballad of Big Nothing", Either/Or did not chart in the US, but...
    23 KB (1,655 words) - 20:54, 13 November 2024
  • speed limits were gradually replaced by absolute limits. An absolute speed limit of 70 mph (113 km/h) was introduced to Victoria in 1971, as a trial.: 31 ...
    34 KB (3,586 words) - 23:59, 19 September 2024
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    50.817°N 0.123°W / 50.817; -0.123 The Brighton Speed Trials, in full The Brighton National Speed Trials, is commonly held to be the oldest running motor...
    37 KB (3,618 words) - 01:51, 16 July 2024
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    Vande Bharat (trainset) (category Higher-speed rail)
    Chennai. The train achieved a maximum speed of 183 km/h (114 mph) during its trial runs but the operational speed of the train is restricted to 160 km/h...
    55 KB (4,775 words) - 13:31, 15 November 2024
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    John Cobb (racing driver) (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
    Scotland for the speed trial. On 29 September 1952 he was killed at the age of 52 whilst attempting to break the world Water Speed Record at Loch Ness...
    12 KB (1,308 words) - 02:54, 26 August 2024
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    developed by Charles Algernon Parsons. During speed trials, these engines caused significant vibration at high speeds; in response, Mauretania received strengthening...
    43 KB (4,743 words) - 17:25, 1 November 2024
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    the line began trial operation with passengers on 7 September 2023 and commercial operations on 17 October 2023. The Whoosh high speed train has served...
    58 KB (5,301 words) - 14:57, 12 November 2024
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    extremely long lives [citation needed]. In May 1902, Baker took part in a speed trial on a public road on Staten Island, New York. The vehicle was built specially...
    14 KB (1,310 words) - 02:20, 17 April 2024
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    Bernie Ecclestone (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
    crisis, and stated: "They have a lot of influence everywhere." In a 2012 trial against the former BayernLB chief risk officer Gerhard Gribkowsky, the public...
    66 KB (6,917 words) - 23:05, 7 November 2024
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    industrial partners. The high-speed trials are intended to expand the limits of high-speed rail technology, increasing speed and comfort without compromising...
    28 KB (4,074 words) - 08:25, 11 November 2024
  • a video presentation by Tony Oursler. Speed Trials was followed by the short-lived after-hours audio art Speed Club that was established by Nechvatal...
    31 KB (3,613 words) - 21:18, 10 November 2024
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    Motorcycle trials, also known as observed trials, often called simply trial or trials, is a non-speed event on specialized motorcycles. The sport is most...
    9 KB (1,145 words) - 08:23, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Challenge International de Tourisme 1934
    contest, it consisted of three parts: technical trials, a rally over Europe and a maximum speed trial, but there were changes in details. Since one of...
    24 KB (2,591 words) - 12:34, 31 October 2024
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