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glider glider
glider type of aircraft resembling an airplane but having at most a small auxiliary propulsion plant and usually no means of propulsion at all. The typical modern glider has very slender wings and a streamlined body. The unpowered variety is launched by an elastic shock cord, a rope, or a cable,... Read more
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FlightSafety International, Inc. Marine Air TerminalLaGuardia AirportFlushing, New York 11371U.S.A.(718) 565-4100Fax: (718) 565-4134Web site: http://www.flightsafety.com Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.Incorporated: 1951 as Flight Safety, Inc.Employees: 3,125Sales: $410.9... Read more
coot coot
coot common name for a migratory marsh bird related to rails and gallinules and found in North America and Europe. The American coot ( Fulica americana ), or mud hen, is slate gray with a white bill, black head and neck, and white wing edgings and tail patch. It has lobed toes and is a skillful... Read more
Spacesuit Spacesuit
Spacesuit A spacesuit is a pressurized garment worn by astronauts during space flights. It is designed to protect them from the potentially damaging conditions experienced in space. Spacesuits are also known as Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMUs) to reflect the fact that... Read more
Archaeopteryx Archaeopteryx
Archaeopteryx [Gr.,=primitive wing], most primitive known bird , a 150 million-year-old fossil of which was first discovered in 1860 and described the following year in the late Jurassic limestone of Solnhofen, Bavaria. All eight known fossils of Archaeopteryx, discovered between 1860 and 1992,... Read more
loon loon
loon common name for migratory aquatic birds found in fresh- and saltwater in the colder parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Its strange, laughing call carries for great distances. Like the grebes , loons float low in the water and their legs are placed far back. They are expert swimmers and divers,... Read more
Christopher Paolini Christopher Paolini
Paolini, Christopher 1984 Author Author Christopher Paolini not only writes about fantasy, he lives it. When he was a mere fifteen years old, he penned a sweeping epic called Eragon,which was eventually discovered by a New York publisher—and by thousands of... Read more
Arthur Chichester 1st Baron Arthur Chichester 1st Baron
Chichester, Arthur, 1st Baron [I] (1563–1625). Lord deputy of Ireland. Chichester came from a Devon family, his mother being a Courtenay of Powderham. After serving against the Armada and taking part in the expedition against Cadiz in 1596, he went to Ireland and was appointed governor of... Read more
Intercontinental ballistic missiles Intercontinental ballistic missiles
ICBM Need ICBM stands for intercontinental ballistic missile—a long-range missile that takes advantage of the scientific laws of flight trajectory. The concept was born in the cold war, when new atomic bombs, or warheads, were developed in an attempt to maintain ... Read more
Black Box Black Box
Black Box Background Black box is a generic term used to describe the computerized flight data recorders carried by modern commercial aircraft. The Flight Data Recorder (FDR) is a miniaturized computer system which tracks a variety of data regarding the flight of the plane,... Read more

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