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  • Thumbnail for Fokker Dr.I
    from wing failures. On 3 February 1918, Leutnant Hans Joachim Wolff of Jasta 11 successfully landed after suffering a failure of the upper wing leading...
    21 KB (2,504 words) - 08:00, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of aircraft structural failures
    The list of aircraft accidents and incidents caused by structural failures summarizes notable accidents and incidents such as the 1933 United Airlines...
    27 KB (414 words) - 17:27, 14 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Albatros D.III
    pilot suffered a failure of the lower right wing spar. On the following day, Manfred von Richthofen suffered a crack in the lower wing of his new D.III...
    17 KB (1,992 words) - 10:22, 22 September 2024
  • Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition...
    69 KB (7,256 words) - 16:57, 31 October 2024
  • catastrophic failure is a sudden and total failure from which recovery is impossible. Catastrophic failures often lead to cascading systems failure. The term...
    7 KB (832 words) - 14:26, 9 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1994 San Marino Grand Prix
    the previous lap, the front wing gave way to the air pressure (most likely due to failure of two bolts attaching the wing to the nose's underside) and...
    75 KB (6,994 words) - 13:48, 6 November 2024
  • the fastest lap of the race, Kimi Räikkönen suffered a high-speed rear wing failure at the end of the start-finish straight on lap 14 and crashed into the...
    82 KB (3,899 words) - 10:40, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Structural integrity and failure
    Structural integrity and failure is an aspect of engineering that deals with the ability of a structure to support a designed structural load (weight...
    37 KB (4,122 words) - 13:14, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boeing 747 hull losses
    freighter, crashed near Madrid on May 9, 1976, due to the structural failure of its left wing in flight, killing the 17 people on board. The accident investigation...
    37 KB (4,557 words) - 01:25, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Turbine engine failure
    A turbine engine failure occurs when a gas turbine engine unexpectedly stops producing power due to a malfunction other than fuel exhaustion. It often...
    27 KB (3,274 words) - 23:56, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aerial firefighting
    liability concerns and an inability to safely manage the fleet after the wing failure and resulting crash of a C-130A Hercules in California and a PB4Y-2 in...
    46 KB (4,559 words) - 02:38, 3 September 2024
  • diverged significantly from the established Wing Commander universe, and was a critical and commercial failure. The Wing Commander: Collectible card game was...
    27 KB (3,420 words) - 18:51, 28 October 2024
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    Paragliding (section Wing)
    Low-altitude wing failure can result in serious injury or death due to the subsequent velocity of a ground impact whereas a higher altitude failure may allow...
    70 KB (9,376 words) - 06:05, 26 October 2024
  • Wing Commander is a 1999 science fiction film loosely based on the video game series of the same name. It was directed by Chris Roberts, the creator of...
    17 KB (2,066 words) - 07:17, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Williams FW15C
    the rear of the grid. Prost fought his way up to fourth before a rear wing failure ended his bid for a points finish, but a retirement for Senna meant there...
    24 KB (2,656 words) - 17:35, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Autorotation
    of flight in which the main rotor system of a helicopter or other rotary-wing aircraft turns by the action of air moving up through the rotor, as with...
    14 KB (1,693 words) - 23:31, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for McCoy Air Force Base
    51-2177, of the 447th Bombardment Squadron, 321st Bombardment Wing, which suffered wing failure northwest of downtown Orlando, Florida while taking part in...
    52 KB (6,616 words) - 05:08, 24 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Imola Circuit
    after a tyre failure and missed the race due to injury. In 1989, Gerhard Berger crashed his Ferrari at Tamburello after a front wing failure. The car instantaneously...
    75 KB (4,824 words) - 21:55, 26 October 2024
  • A wing engine is a subsidiary engine installed in a motor boat alongside the main engine. The primary purpose of a wing engine is to provide redundancy...
    4 KB (598 words) - 19:11, 22 October 2021
  • Thumbnail for Mitsubishi A6M Zero
    Mitsubishi A6M Zero (category Low-wing aircraft)
    but stiffened at speeds above 348 km/h (216 mph) to safeguard against wing failure. The Zero could not keep up with Allied aircraft in high-speed maneuvers...
    92 KB (10,924 words) - 08:58, 7 November 2024
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