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  2. Push-pull configuration - Wikipedia

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    Push-pull designs have the engines mounted above the wing as Dornier flying boats or more commonly on a shorter fuselage than conventional one, as for Rutan Defiant or Voyager canard designs. Twin boomers such as the Cessna Skymaster and Adam A500 have the aircraft's tail suspended via twin booms behind the pusher propeller.

  3. Pusher configuration - Wikipedia

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    1871 Planophore A Farman MF.11, showing the classic Farman configuration with engine between tail booms Buhl A-1 Autogyro, the first pusher autogyro The post-WWII Convair B-36 was unusual in its size, era, number of engines, and combining both propeller and jet propulsion, with six radial piston and four jet engines Typical of many UAVs, the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper has a propeller at the ...

  4. Rotating locomotion in living systems - Wikipedia

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    A wheeled buffalo figurine—probably a children's toy—from Magna Graecia in archaic Greece [1]. Several organisms are capable of rolling locomotion. However, true wheels and propellers—despite their utility in human vehicles—do not play a significant role in the movement of living things (with the exception of the corkscrew-like flagella of many prokaryotes).

  5. Why Public Bathrooms Are So Rare in America - AOL

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    The U.S. has eight public toilets per 100,000 people. Public toilets were a fact of life in the U.S. and elsewhere for centuries — at least as far back as the Roman Empire. As leaders began to ...

  6. Why Robert Pattinson Wants Life to Be Like 'Clueless': 'I'm ...

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    Just because Robert Pattinson has done some daring things on screen doesn't mean he's a fan of taking risks in real life. The 38-year-old actor recently opened up to Vogue, in an interview ...

  7. Aquatic locomotion - Wikipedia

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    When they push water directly backwards, this moves their body forward, but as they return their limbs to the starting position, they push water forward, which will thus pull them back to some degree, and so opposes the direction that the body is heading. This opposing force is called drag. The return-stroke drag causes drag swimmers to employ ...

  8. Here's what you didn't see in some of the best picture Oscar ...

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    What scenes from 'Wicked,' 'Anora,' 'Conclave,' 'Nickel Boys' and 'I'm Still Here' were cut from the finished films?

  9. List of pusher aircraft by configuration - Wikipedia

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    A pusher aircraft is a type of aircraft using propellers placed behind the engines and may be classified according to engine/propeller location and drive as well as the lifting surfaces layout (conventional or 3 surface, canard, joined wing, tailless and rotorcraft), Some aircraft have a Push-pull configuration with both tractor and pusher engines.