* Formula One racing is one of the most revered sports in the world. In the auto-racing world it is second to none in class‚ prestige‚ history‚ and skill. The level of competition is immense and the window of entry is miniscule. This brings up one question: (what is the question?) Formula One racing’s history dates back to the 1950s when racecars were simple front engine‚ drum brake cars. Compared to the cars of today‚ they are dinosaurs‚ but they were the best of their time and a wonder to many
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2. General Electric uses a multifaceted approach to help make them one of the industries leaders in engine production. This approach includes resources both financially and managerially. Financially General Electric has invested $50 million in new engine technology‚ with an additional $1.2 billion to $1.4 billion being required to help them bring new engine designs to the forefront. General Electric has also received a $20 million grant from NASA in order for them to create the first tester UDF
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Bombardier Reassessing CSeries Flight-Test Schedule Emerging from a hiatus in new-product development in 2008‚ Bombardier took on its biggest challenge yet—to enter a new market with a clean-sheet design‚ its largest aircraft ever and its first with fly-by-wire flight controls‚ carbon-fiber composite wing and geared-turbofan engines. The Canadian manufacturer crossed its first hurdle on Sept. 16‚ when the CSeries narrowbody airliner made its delayed first flight from Mirabel‚ near Montreal. But
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parts? When its once-siloed business units find a way to harvest innovations in the white space between them. That’s exactly what happened at heavy-equipment manufacturer United Technologies Corporation. Each of UTC’sfivedominant business units-Pratt & Whitney‚ Sikorsky Aircraft‚ and Hamilton Sundstrand in aerospace; and Otis Elevator and Carrier on the commercial side-had
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Airbus and Boeing: A comparison By Aben Johnson Boeing and Airbus are the two largest manufacturers of large commercial airliners in the world. They have operated in this capacity since the early 1990’s. This is due to a series of consolidations in the European aerospace industry‚ As well as the acquisition of McDonnell Douglas by Boeing in 1997. Another factor that led to this duopoly was the withdrawal of smaller competitors such as Lockheed Martin and Covair. William Boeing founded Boeing
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Its original designation‚ HU-1‚ gave rise to the nickname “Huey”. The official designation changed to UH-1‚ however the nickname stayed. The huey first saw mass production in 1958. The aircraft was powered by a single Pratt& Whitney T-400-CP-400(ultimate special forces) (American warplanes) Over 7‚000 Hueys were used during the war. (historyhuey) The huey was capable of a wide variety of configurations‚ including: troop transport‚ search and rescue‚ gunship‚ and casualty
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SR-71 “Blackbird” An Insight to Top Secret‚ Record Breaking‚ Cold War Technological Advances in Aviation A Brief Look into the SR-71 By JSoucy Introduction The Date is August 4 1955‚ and the U-2 “Dragonlady” Reconnaissance takes to the skies for the first time in history. The U-2 was built specifically to gather intelligence on foreign countries with the primary intention of flying over the Soviet Union and photographing sites of strategic interest. The U-2 was soon to have a
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International Marketing AD655 International Business‚ Economics‚ and Cultures Introduction The last two decades‚ probably after World War II the economic growth have speeded up by multinational enterprise. In the 1990s foreign direct investment made by these firms grew as faster arte than both international trade and GDP (Cieslik & Ryan‚ 2011). The foreign direct investment already created lots of fortune for world economy; however‚ it is not luck to each international firm. Some of them
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F-15 Eagles vs. SU-27 Flankers Aircrafts 1 Comparison of F-15 Eagles vs. SU-27 Flankers Aircrafts Carlos E. Quinonez ENG 121 English Compositions I Instructor: Tiffany Young February 9‚ 2009
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The Pratt Truss was designed by Thomas and Caleb Pratt in 1844. It became popular for railway bridges because it made good use of iron. The Pratt has many variations‚ most with their own unique name. For instance‚ the Baltimore‚ Pennsylvania‚ and the Parker are all based off the Pratt. Pratt Truss How the forces are spread out Here are two diagrams showing how the forces are spread out when the Pratt Truss is under a load. The first shows the load being applied across the entire top
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