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unusual facts about Booster


Snecma Silvercrest

The engine architecture includes a solid wide-chord swept fan with a 4-stage booster, followed by a 4 axial stage + 1 centrifugal stage high pressure compressor.


2011 Miami Hurricanes football team

The Hurricanes faced adversity even before the first down of football as twelve players were forced to pay restitution and eight players were suspended for accepting money and gifts from former booster Nevin Shapiro, a convicted Ponzi schemer serving a 20-year prison sentence.

A Winner Never Quits

A Winner Never Quits is a 1986 TV movie based on the true story of baseball player Pete Gray, the first one-armed man ever to play major league baseball, hired in 1943 as a "freak attraction" and wartime morale-booster by the Memphis Chicks, Class-A minor league ball club.

Alastair Burnet

Sir James William Alexander Burnet, known as Sir Alastair Burnet (12 July 1928 – 20 July 2012), was a British journalist and broadcaster, best known for his work in news and current affairs programmes, including a long career with ITN as chief presenter of the flagship News at Ten for eighteen years; Sir Robin Day described Burnet as "the booster rocket that put ITN into orbit".

Big dumb booster

The BDB (Big Dumb Booster) plays a significant role in Stephen Baxter's Manifold series.

Bird Technologies

Channelized and Digital Signal Booster III series, offering user programmable center frequencies and filter characteristics and intuitive user interfaces and the RescueLine Signal Booster, designed to comply with the new International Fire Code and National Fire Protection Association standards.

Booster engine

In Great Britain, the Gresley P1 2-8-2 locomotives for the London and North Eastern Railway, of which only two were built, were equipped with booster units.

Bryce Brown

Brown, along with his brother Arthur, were named in a report from Yahoo! Sports alleging that student-athletes, coaches and administrators were aware and received impermissible benefits from an ex-booster Nevin Shapiro.

Chronology of Pakistan's rocket tests

The Suparco's spaceflight missions and tests were the unmanned space missions of the Space Research Commission (SUPARCO) that was aimed for developing high-altitude rockets and space booster for the development of the country's space programme.

Derf Scratch

Belushi loved Fear and was their biggest booster; the two became good friends and cocaine abusers—this period is well documented in the Bob Woodward book 'Wired'.

Digital Command Control

A DCC command station, in combination with its booster, modulates the voltage on the track to encode digital messages while providing electric power.

Doodlez

Dood gets himself in and out of various Duck Amuck-esque situations, with the aid of Hand, a disembodied hand that uses his pencil to draw (sometimes) helpful things onto the screen for Dood's use, such as helping Dood cheat in a skating race against his rival by drawing a booster behind Dood.But usually Hand draws very bad things.

Dudley Dean

The play was intended as a morale booster and fundraiser for the Army Emergency Relief Fund.

Energia

Unlike the Energia, which was planned to be semi-reusable (like that of the U.S. Space Shuttle), the Uragan design would have allowed the complete recovery of all Buran/Energia elements, like that of the original totally reusable Orbiter/Booster concept of the U.S. Shuttle.

Gary Parris

Parris has served as president on several local committees and organizations including Indian River County Little League, Fighting Indians Football Booster Club, Fighting Indians Baseball Booster Club, the March of Dimes Fundraising Committee, Cubmaster of Cub Scout Pack 515 and District Chairman for Boy Scouts of America Indian River District of the Gulf Stream Council.

Gift of a Lifetime

OSU Athletics Inc. was formerly titled "OSU Cowboy Golf" and its board members included influential booster T. Boone Pickens, who gave $165 million to OSU Athletics in January 2006, the largest gift in National Collegiate Athletic Association history.

KFLA-LD

KFLA was originally owned by the Indian Wells Valley TV Booster, providing over-the-air reception of KCAL-TV to the Indian Wells Valley.

KISZ-FM

The station also has a low-power translator, K249DE in Durango, Colorado, and a booster, KISZ-FM1 in Farmington, New Mexico.

Lance Stephenson

This may have constituted a recruiting violation, as Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank is a Maryland graduate and on the university's board of trustees, and by NCAA rules, "representative of the institution's athletics interests" or a booster.

Lighthouse Point, Florida

Nevin Shapiro, University of Miami football booster who is currently imprisoned for orchestrating a $930 million Ponzi scheme.

Logan Young

Logan Young (1940–2006) was a Memphis, Tennessee businessman and a booster for the University of Alabama football program.

Magic: The Gathering formats

For example, a Magic 2010 sealed deck event consists of six Magic 2010 boosters, but a sanctioned Shards of Alara block sealed deck event consists of two Shards of Alara, two Conflux, and two Alara Reborn booster packs.

MGM-13 Mace

Mace was launched from a mobile trailer or a hardened bunker using a solid fuel booster rocket for initial acceleration and an Allison J33-A-41 turbojet for flight.

Michael Huyghue

On Aug. 16, 2011, Yahoo! Sports reported that Nevin Shapiro, a former University of Miami booster incarcerated for his role in a $930 million Ponzi scheme, was alleging that he had provided "thousands of impermissible benefits to at least 72 University of Miami athletes from 2002 through 2010."

Multistage rocket

The trio of rocket engines used in the first stage of the American Atlas I and Atlas II launch vehicles, arranged in a "row", used parallel staging in a similar way: the outer pair of engines existed as a jettisonable pair which would, after they shut down, drop away with the lowermost outer "skirt" structure of the booster, leaving the central "sustainer" engine to complete the first stage's engine burn towards apogee or orbit.

Orion Abort Test Booster

The Orion Abort Test Booster (ATB) is a small solid rocket launcher which will be developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation under contract by U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, Space Development and Test Directorate (SDTD).

Paul Dee

According to news reports, from 2002 through the end of Dee's tenure, booster Nevin Shapiro provided Miami football and basketball players with numerous benefits that violated NCAA rules including hundreds of thousands of dollars, gifts, prostitutes, access to yachts and housing, and expensive social events.

PC Magazine

PC Magazine was a booster of early versions of the OS/2 operating system in the late 1980s, but then switched to a strong endorsement of the Microsoft Windows operating environment after the release of Windows 3.0 in May 1990.

Randy Shannon

Perhaps most significantly, he was apparently untainted by the scandal that engulfed the program in the 2011 season, as he avoided contact with Nevin Shapiro, the rogue booster who admitted to providing massive amounts of improper benefits to Miami players from 2002 to 2010.

Retr0bright

#Approximately 1/4 teaspoonful (4.9 ml) per gallon (3.8 l) (1/3072) of Tetraacetylethylenediamine (TAED)-based laundry booster (concentrations of TAED vary).

Richard McIver

In his 2001 campaign, he defeated music critic, monorail booster and author Grant Cogswell.

Rintatolimod

In June 2009, The Street alleged Hemispherx was "seeking to divert investors' attention away from the delayed approval of rintatolimod as a treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome" by issuing three press releases in seven days about research from 2007 into possible applications for rintatolimod as a flu vaccine booster.

Route du Vin Half Marathon

The 2009 women's winner, Shitaye Gemechu, was disqualified after testing positive for the banned blood booster EPO (making her the first Ethiopian runner to be banned for abusing that substance).

Saturn IB-C

The booster would consist of an ordinary Saturn IB with four Minuteman first stages used as strap-on boosters.

SpaceX reusable launch system development program

Following the successful December 3 launch of Falcon 9 Flight 7 with the SES-8 payload, CEO Musk stated that depending on the data analysis from the SES-8 mission, SpaceX may try to recover the spent booster of the Thaicom 6 flight from the ocean.

Spellfire

The Artifacts, Powers, Underdark, Runes & Ruins, and Birthright booster series added many new dimensions to the game.

Stan Barrett

The solid fuel booster engine essentially came from a Sidewinder missile.

Super Buddies

The Super Buddies do not and cannot get along: Blue Beetle and Booster Gold, formerly the self-proclaimed "Abbott and Costello" of the JLI, now find themselves constantly arguing and fruitlessly attempting to prove to one another that they've matured.

Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System

Many Tracking and Data Relay Satellites were launched in the 1980s and 1990s with the Space Shuttle and made use of the Inertial Upper Stage, a two-stage solid rocket booster developed for the shuttle.

Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke

Afterwards, the ERNO/VFW descendant was active as the space infrastructure division of Astrium contributing parts to the European Ariane space booster system and the International Space Station.

Wenchang Satellite Launch Center

Furthermore, it will be capable of launching the new heavy lift Long March 5 booster currently under development.


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