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  2. Marble-Swift - Wikipedia

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    The Marble-Swift was a friction-drive runabout with a 16-hp twin-cylinder engine. In 1905 it was enlarged to a four-cylinder 22-hp touring car with the friction transmission, selling for $1,500 (equivalent to $50,867 in 2023). [1] [2] In 1905 Marble-Swift was succeeded by the Windsor Motor Car Company. [1]

  3. Pterodactyl Ascender - Wikipedia

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    The model was called the Pterodactyl Pfledge OR (Oshkosh Replica) and was powered by a Sachs SA-340 336 cc direct drive two-stroke engine. [ 4 ] Construction of all Pterodactyl aircraft was predominantly of anodized 6061-T6 aluminum tubing, braced with swaged steel cables supported by a king post and with a sewn Dacron sail for wing covering.

  4. Quad City Challenger - Wikipedia

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    Challenger I (Challenger UL) Single seat, 31.5 ft (9.6 m) wingspan gives lower stall speed. Can be fitted with a variety of engines. Qualifies as a US "Experimental - Amateur-Built", Light sport aircraft or with the 22 hp (16 kW) Hirth F-33 engine as a US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicle, 800 reported completed and flown by the fall of 2011.

  5. MythBusters (2008 season) - Wikipedia

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    A person can make a working two-seater ultralight plane out of makeshift materials. Busted Taking footage from the show, the Build Team built an ultralight plane out of bamboo, duct tape, trash bags, and a cement mixer engine. The show depicted the plane MacGyver built as not being powerful enough to achieve flight on its own, but it was able ...

  6. Carlson Sparrow - Wikipedia

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    The Carlson Sparrow is a family of American, high wing, strut-braced, single engine, ultralight aircraft that was designed by Ernst W. Carlson and produced by Carlson Aircraft of East Palestine, Ohio and later Skyline Technologies of Salem, Ohio for amateur construction.

  7. Timken Company - Wikipedia

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    The Timken Company is a global manufacturer of bearings and power transmission products. [4] Timken operates from 42 countries. The Timken Company brands include: Timken bearings; GGB bearings; American Roller Bearing and Engineered Solutions Group (iMECH); Lagersmit sealing solutions; Rollon, Nadella and Rosa Sistemi linear motion products; Philadelph

  8. XPO (XPO) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript - AOL

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    Image source: The Motley Fool. XPO (NYSE: XPO) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Feb 06, 2025, 8:30 a.m. ET. Contents: Prepared Remarks. Questions and Answers. Call Participants ...

  9. Friction drive - Wikipedia

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    The large disk closer to the top is connected to the engine, the smaller one drives the wheels via chains (missing here). A friction drive [1] [2] or friction engine is a type of transmission that utilises the static friction of two smooth surfaces (instead of contact pressure of meshing teeth) to transfer torque between two rotating parts.