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  • Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) was an executive agency granted trading fund status in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Transport...
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  • Thumbnail for Space Shuttle Main Propulsion Test Article
    The Main Propulsion Test Article (MPTA-098) was built by Rockwell International as a testbed for the definitive propulsion and fuel delivery systems for...
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  • The Fairchild J83 turbojet was developed starting in 1955 to power cruise missiles used as un-armed decoys for bomber aircraft. The engine's development...
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    USS Sprig (AM-384) was an Auk-class minesweeper acquired by the United States Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the...
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  • The Russian Research Module (RM) was to be a Russian component of the International Space Station (ISS) that provided facilities for Russian science experiments...
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  • Thumbnail for Quill drive
    A quill drive is a mechanism that allows a drive shaft to shift its position (either axially, radially, or both) relative to its driving shaft. It consists...
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    The Flores-class gunboats were a class of two gunboats built in the mid-1920s for the Royal Netherlands Navy. Flores and Soemba were intended to patrol...
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    SK-1 is an initialism of "Skafandr Kosmicheskiy" # 1 (Скафандр Космический = "diving suit for space") is a spacesuit that was developed specially for Yuri...
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  • Platform Name - Tern Alpha. The Tern oilfield is an oilfield situated 169 kilometres (105 mi) north east of Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland, in block...
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    The Townline Tunnel is an underwater tunnel in Welland, Ontario, Canada carrying Highway 58A as well as the Canadian Pacific Railway under the Welland...
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    The Buchli drive is a transmission system used in electric locomotives. It was named after its inventor, Swiss engineer Jakob Buchli. The drive is a fully...
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  • This list of traffic collisions records serious road crashes: those that have a large death toll, occurred in unusual circumstances, or have some other...
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  • Thumbnail for Fuel control unit
    A fuel control unit is a control system for gas turbine engines. Gas turbine engines are primarily controlled by the amount of fuel supplied to the combustion...
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  • Thumbnail for Cedar Island (Niagara River)
    43°04′38″N 79°04′39″W / 43.077142°N 79.0775°W / 43.077142; -79.0775 Cedar Island was a small, uninhabited and elongated island located in the Niagara...
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  • The Institute of Boiler and Radiator Manufacturers (IBR, I=B=R), in the United States, is currently incorporated into the Gas Appliance Manufacturers Association...
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  • Selat Lumut Bridge is the longest straits bridge in Klang Valley, Selangor, Malaysia. It connects mainland Port Klang to Pulau Indah. Federal Route 181...
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