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"WIN350" was the name given to the 500-900 series (500系900番台) 6-car experimental high-speed Shinkansen train developed in 1992 by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) in Japan to test technology to be incorporated in next-generation shinkansen trains expected to operate at speeds of 350 km/h (217 mph) from 1994. [2]
coupled Ha-40 engines Mitsubishi: Ha-211: MK9 A20 Ha-43: Mitsubishi: Ha-214: MK10 Nakajima: Ha-219: NK11A BH Ha-44 Nakajima: Ha-315: Nakajima: Ha-505: D-BH Ha-54 projected 5,000 hp 36-cyl radial engine Aichi: AE1 Atsuta: license-built Daimler DB 601A Aichi: Ha-70: Coupled Atsuta engines Hiro: Hiro Type 14 500 hp Water Cooled W-12 Type 14: Hiro ...
FedEx Express Flight 80 was a scheduled cargo flight from Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in China, to Narita International Airport in Narita, Chiba Prefecture (near Tokyo), Japan. On March 23, 2009, the McDonnell Douglas MD-11F (N526FE) [ 2 ] operating the flight crashed at 6:48 am JST (21:48 UTC , March 22), while attempting a landing ...
A two-winged wheel on a Deutsche Bahn (German railways) building in Dresden. A winged wheel or flying wheel is a symbol used on monuments by the ancient Greeks and Romans and more recently as a heraldic charge. The symbol is mostly formed with one or two wheels and one, two, or three wings—with one wheel and two wings being the most common form.
A design fault of the DC-8 had caused the thrust reverser of #4 engine to engage when the thrust lever was rapidly set to idle. [1] 13 August 1966 An Aeronaves de Mexico DC-8-51 (XA-PEI, named Tenochtitlan) crashed 21 mi from Acapulco after a descent was made while turning during a training flight, killing the six crew. [1] 24 December 1966
Following an engine shutdown, a precautionary landing is usually performed with airport fire and rescue equipment positioned near the runway. The prompt landing is a precaution against the risk that another engine will fail later in the flight or that the engine failure that has already occurred may have caused or been caused by other as-yet unknown damage or malfunction of aircraft systems ...
Kyushu J7W1 Shinden fuselage at the National Air and Space Museum Washington, DC. The two prototypes were the only examples of the Shinden ever completed. After the end of the war, one was scrapped; the other was claimed by a U.S. Navy Technical Air Intelligence Unit in late 1945, dismantled, and shipped to the United States.
Japan Airlines Flight 350 (日本航空350便, Nihonkōkū 350 Bin) was a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61, registered JA8061, on a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, to Tokyo in Japan. [2] The airplane crashed 9 February 1982 on approach to Haneda Airport in Tokyo Bay, resulting in 24 fatalities. [3]