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  2. Sea trial - Wikipedia

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    A sea trial or trial trip is the testing phase of a watercraft (including boats, ships, and submarines). It is also referred to as a "shakedown cruise" by many naval personnel. It is usually the last phase of construction and takes place on open water, and it can last from a few hours to many days. Sea trials are conducted to measure a vessel's ...

  3. Shakedown (testing) - Wikipedia

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    A shakedown is a period of testing or a trial journey undergone by a ship, aircraft or other craft and its crew before being declared operational. Statistically, a proportion of the components will fail after a relatively short period of use , and those that survive this period can be expected to last for a much longer, and more importantly ...

  4. National Wind Institute - Wikipedia

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    The National Wind Institute (NWI) at Texas Tech University (TTU) was established in December 2012, and is intended to serve as Texas Tech University's intellectual hub for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, commercialization and education related to wind science, wind energy, wind engineering and wind hazard mitigation and serves faculty affiliates, students, and external partners.

  5. China launches sea trials for next-generation aircraft carrier

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    CCTV reported the Fujian had set out to sea just after 8 a.m. (0000 GMT) on Wednesday. The sea trials are a final step before the aircraft carrier is put into service by China's navy. That process ...

  6. Ship commissioning - Wikipedia

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    Sea trials begin when the ship is floated out of its dry dock (or more rarely, moved by a vehicle to the sea from its construction hangar, as was the case with the submarine USS Virginia), at which time the initial crew for a ship (usually a skeleton crew composed of yard workers and naval personnel; in the modern era of increasingly complex ...

  7. Whitacre College of Engineering - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Technological College, present day Texas Tech University, School of Engineering was created in the fall of 1925. At that time the school consisted of 313 students and two faculty members, and was housed in the textile engineering building, now the mechanical engineering building. [5]

  8. Texas Tech ex Monae' Nichols advances to Olympic Trials final

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    Monae' Nichols from Texas Tech was 2nd at this World Championships and now is in the mix for Paris. Eight other area athletes also advanced Thursday

  9. List of Texas Tech University alumni - Wikipedia

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    Texas Tech University, often referred to as Texas Tech or TTU, is a public, coeducational, research university located in Lubbock, Texas. Established on February 10, 1923, and originally known as Texas Technological College, it is the leading institution of the Texas Tech University System and has the sixth largest student body in the state of ...