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An original single-seat Rutan Quickie.This example is in the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.. The Quickie Q2 or Q2 is a two-seat version of the unique Rutan Quickie, [2] produced in kit form by the Quickie Aircraft Corporation founded by Tom Jewett and Gene Sheehan.
By 1943 the new Boeing B-29 Superfortress was flying with R-3350s. The engines remained temperamental, and the rear cylinders tended to overheat, partially due to inadequate clearance between the cylinder baffles and the cowl. A number of changes were introduced to improve cooling, and the aircraft was rushed into service in the Pacific in 1944 ...
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The "aerial screw" was one of several aerial machines drawn by Leonardo, including an early parachute, an ornithopter and a hang glider. The pen-and-ink sketch outlines an idea for a flying machine similar to a modern helicopter , with a spiral rotor or "aerial screw" based on a water screw , but intended to push against the fluid of the air ...
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The following other wikis use this file: Usage on bg.wikipedia.org Леонардо да Винчи; Usage on fr.wikipedia.org Léonard de Vinci
The engine's first test run took place in a test rig at East Hartford, Connecticut, with the engine's first flight in June 1968 mounted on a Boeing B-52E which served as a JT9D flying testbed. [5] In 1968, its unit cost was $800,000, [ 6 ] $7.2 million today.
The Great Kite, Leonardo's flying machine in codex on flight. The Great Kite (Italian: il Grande Nibbio) was a wooden machine designed by Leonardo da Vinci.Leonardo realized it between the end of the 15th Century and the beginning of the 16th Century.