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The Roman mile of 5000 feet (1480 m) was introduced into England during the occupation. Queen Elizabeth I (reigned from 1558 to 1603) changed, by statute, the mile to 5280 feet (~1609 m) or 8 furlongs, a furlong being 40 rod (unit)s (~201 m) of 5.5 yards (~5.03 m) each.
The Super Hornet is an enlarged redesign of the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet.The wing and tail configuration trace its origin to a Northrop prototype aircraft, the P-530, c. 1965, which began as a rework of the lightweight Northrop F-5E (with a larger wing, twin tail fins and a distinctive leading edge root extension, or LERX). [4]
The plane's starboard engine failed at about 9,000 feet (2,700 m), and Hofman bailed out over Normandy (with extensive bruising, since he deployed the parachute at high speed). The aircraft was one of two conversions carrying Rheinmetall BK-5 50 mm anti-tank guns in its nose for a bomber attack, although they were never used. An American ...
This led to the requirement that the TSR-2 must be able to carry four WE.177As, two internally and two on external underwing stores pylons —the width of the TSR-2 bomb bay (originally designed to accommodate a single Red Beard weapon) necessitating reducing the diameter to 16.5 in (42 cm), the bomb's width and fin span being constrained by ...
They displaced 19,180 long tons (19,490 t) normally and 22,560 long tons (22,922 t) at deep load. They had a metacentric height of 6 feet (1.8 m) at deep load and a complete double bottom. [5] Their half-sister Furious was the same length, but had a beam of 88 feet (26.8 m) and a draught of 24 feet 11 inches (7.6 m) at deep load. She displaced ...
As an avid track and field athlete, he high jumped 6 feet, 6 inches, ran the 440 yards in 49.0 seconds and the 880 yards in 1:58.3, put the shot 53 feet, 4 inches, and long jumped 22 feet. [10] Chamberlain was the star player for the Overbrook Hilltoppers basketball team, wearing jersey number five.
During a brief check-out flight on 6 July by the Flight Section of Materiel Command at Wright Field, with a gross takeoff weight of 56,000 pounds (25,000 kg) and after speed, power and stability tests at 10,000 feet (3,000 m) the test crew concluded the aircraft performance was "essentially the same as other B-24 airplanes", but with an ...