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The Ferrari SP-8 is a one-off sports car based on a Ferrari F8 Spider and built for a Taiwanese customer. The SP-8 inherits the same layout, chassis and engine from the F8 Spider but opting for a roadster format (entirely without a roof). The headlights and front end are completely redesigned with a longer, more assertive splitter.
The Vought F7U Cutlass is a United States Navy carrier-based jet fighter and fighter-bomber designed and produced by the aircraft manufacturer Chance Vought.It was the first tailless production fighter in the United States as well as the Navy's first jet equipped with swept wings and the first to be designed with afterburners.
The first of these was a concept study built by the head of the racing department, and the second was built as a 60th birthday present for the company chairman. [ 19 ] Although Porsche never produced any road cars with a flat-eight engine, a prototype of such an engine was built in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
With production shuttered on the F8 Tributo, the gasoline-electric V-6 296GTB now serves as Ferrari's most affordable mid-engine coupe (affordable being relative, as the 296GTB starts north of ...
The F7 was powered by a 7.0 L LS7 V8 engine, which had a capacity of 7 liters and a power of 629 HP, transferring power to the rear axle in cooperation with a 6-speed manual transmission. The car reached 0–60 mph (0–97 km/h) in 3.3 seconds, and the maximum speed was about 200 mph (320 km/h).
The first Spey-powered A-7D (67-14854) flew for the first time on 26 September 1968. The seventeenth production aircraft introduced a provision for boom flight refueling in place of the Navy's retractable starboard-side probe/drogue system, with the boom receptacle being on the top of the fuselage behind the cockpit and offset to port.
If half a billion years is assumed as the amount of time it took for life to evolve, [1] then the highest spectral type considerable for life-bearing planets' stars is ~B8 (12,300 K, 3.3 M ☉︎, 2.8 R ☉︎, ~160 L ☉︎), making F-type stars habitable in terms of lifetime.
1795 (): Boulton and Watt open their Soho Foundry, for the manufacture of steam engines; 1799 (): Richard Trevithick builds his first high-pressure engine at Dolcoath tin mine in Cornwall. 1800 (): Watt's patent expires. By this time about 450 Watt engines (totaling 7,500 hp) [13] and over 1,500 Newcomen engines have been built in the UK.