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  2. Fairey Fulmar - Wikipedia

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    The Fulmar has its origins in the Fairey P.4/34, which had been developed in response to the issuing of Specification P.4/34 by the British Air Ministry. P.4/34 had sought a light bomber that would be capable of being used as a dive bomber; in addition to Fairey's entry, competing submissions came in the form of the Hawker Henley and an unbuilt Gloster design.

  3. Private Use Areas - Wikipedia

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    In Unicode, a Private Use Area (PUA) is a range of code points that, by definition, will not be assigned characters by the standard. [1] Three private use areas are defined: one in the Basic Multilingual Plane (U+E000–U+F8FF), and one each in, and nearly covering, planes 15 and 16 (U+F0000–U+FFFFD, U+100000–U+10FFFD).

  4. Fairey Firefly - Wikipedia

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    Firefly TT.Mk 4/5/6 Small numbers of AS.4/5/6s were converted into target tug aircraft. Firefly AS.Mk 7 The Firefly AS.Mk 7 was an anti-submarine aircraft, powered by a Rolls-Royce Griffon 59 piston engine. Firefly T.Mk 7 The Firefly T.Mk 7 was an interim ASW training aircraft. Firefly U.Mk 8

  5. Range coding - Wikipedia

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    Suppose we want to encode the message "AABA<EOM>", where <EOM> is the end-of-message symbol. For this example it is assumed that the decoder knows that we intend to encode exactly five symbols in the base 10 number system (allowing for 10 5 different combinations of symbols with the range [0, 100000)) using the probability distribution {A: .60; B: .20; <EOM>: .20}.

  6. Fire for effect - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This point should be an equal range from the battery as the target point but ...

  7. Fairey Rotodyne - Wikipedia

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    The Fairey Rotodyne was a 1950s British compound gyroplane designed and built by Fairey Aviation and intended for commercial and military uses. [1] A development of the earlier Fairey Jet Gyrodyne, which had established a world helicopter speed record, the Rotodyne featured a tip-jet-powered rotor that burned a mixture of fuel and compressed air bled from two wing-mounted Napier Eland turboprops.

  8. Fairey Gannet - Wikipedia

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    The Fairey Gannet is a carrier-borne aircraft that was designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer the Fairey Aviation Company.It was developed for the Royal Navy, being the first fixed-wing aircraft to combine both the search and strike portions of anti-submarine warfare (ASW) operations to be operated by the Fleet Air Arm (FAA).

  9. Incendiary ammunition - Wikipedia

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    Though deadly, the effective range of these bullets was only 350 yards (320 m), as the phosphorus charge burned quickly. [1] Incendiary bullets called "Buckingham" ammunition were supplied to early British night fighters for use against military zeppelins threatening the British Isles.