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Aerospike

Drag-resistant aerospike, which helps reduce drag on missiles by creating a detached shock above the missile


1970 24 Hours of Le Mans

During tests in Zeltweg, Wyer's engineer John Horsmann had the idea to increase downforce to the expense of drag, a new tail was molded with aluminum sheets taped together.

Aquasco Speedway

Richard Petty, Shirley Muldowney, Don Prudhomme, Bunny Burkett are among some of the great drag racers who raced on the now defunct speedway.

ATDynamics

The TrailerTail device works by streamlining the air as it comes off the back of a semi-trailer, reducing low-pressure suction drag directly behind the trailer.

It is recognized for the TrailerTail rear-drag aerodynamics technology, around which the company was founded.

Aurel Persu

Persu, a specialist in airplanes aerodynamics and dynamics, implemented his idea in 1922–1923 in Berlin, building an automobile with an incredibly low drag coefficient of 0.28 (same as a modern Porsche Carrera) or even 0.22 (still not reached by almost any modern production cars), depending on the source.

Billy DeFrank Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center

The DeFrank Center is named after Billy DeFrank, the stage name of William Price (1936–1980), an African-American and prominent 1970s gay rights activist and a member of the Bay Area's drag community.

Billy doll

Billy and Carlos donned drag in 1999, with Billy dressed in a gingham checkered pantsuit as "Dolly" and Carlos as "Carmen" in a polka dot outfit reminiscent of those worn by Carmen Miranda.

Camden Airport

Camden Airstrip, a crop-dusting field now used for drag racing in Couva, Trinidad

Carmen Rupe

Taking the name of Dorothy Dandridge's role in Carmen Jones, Rupe became Australia's first Māori drag performer and from that time on lived as a woman.

Christeene Vale

Christeene Vale, known mononymously as Christeene, is an American drag queen, performance artist, singer-songwriter and rapper.

Clint Bowyer

Bowyer made a guest appearance on an episode of A&E's Duck Dynasty in 2012 on an episode titled "Drag Me To Glory".

Dam Vinh Hung

Activist Ly Tong dressed up in drag in order to slip through security, and under the pretext of giving Dam a flower, sprayed Dam in the face with pepper spray.

Danny the Street

His personality is based, at least partially, on British drag performer Danny La Rue.

Declan Hicks

Declan is involved in many various forms of motorsport, and was recently part of a team building and racing a Power Tool Drag Racer to race in the Silverline tools Challenge, soon to be seen on the Discovery Canada magazine show Daily Planet, with his team-mates Jon Lawes and Ben Short.

Donna Sachet

On September 29, 2009, Sachet became the first drag performer to sing the United States National Anthem at the opening of a Major League Baseball game.

Drag Pack

At the start of the 1970 model year, Ford began installing the Drag Pack on approximately 10% of Boss 302 Mustangs.

Drag-On

After leaving Interscope Records, which issued his debut alongside Ruff Ryders, Drag-On joined Virgin Records and released his second album Hell and Back, in 2004.

Garo Sparo

This collection was followed by fashion shows at NYC nightlife venues Limelight, Webster Hall, Click+Drag and Jackie 60.

GTK+

GDK – the GIMP Drawing Kit lies between the X server and the GTK+ library, handling basic rendering such as drawing primitives, raster graphics (bitmaps), cursors, fonts, as well as window events and drag-and-drop functionality

Hairdresser on Fire

The opening track for Ryan Adams' Heartbreaker is a recording of an argument between Adams and David Rawlings over the inclusion of Suedehead, the A-side of this track, on Bona Drag.

Jackson Burns

His fire drag stunt from a vehicle at 246 feet totally engulfed Burns in flames at one point and damaged his Nomex fire suit ; Burns took 22 squib hits at once, 22 total in 15 seconds; and as stunt double for George Kennedy on the motion picture The Man Who Came Back, was dragged from the back of a horse for a total distance of 282 feet.

John Epperson

In Winter 2004, Epperson (in a different drag role) played the role of the Wicked Stepmother in the New York City Opera's revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella in a cast with Eartha Kitt, Dick van Patten and fellow Wigstock veteran Renée Taylor.

Jonathan Emile

His performance achieved broad critical acclaim from both English & French media for his performance of André De Shields original role and his notable interpretation of “The Viper's Drag”.

Kalitta

Connie Kalitta (born 1938), a retired American drag racer and CEO of the eponymous Kallita Air.

Doug Kalitta (born 1964), an American drag racer, nephew of Connie Kalitta and owner of Kalitta Charters.

Major Star

In spite of Bob's more convincing and better received 'drag' act, and Baldrick's now seemingly "feeble impression of Buster Keaton," Melchett proclaims the second night's show a disaster, recognising Bob and still not realising she is a female, and immediately stops any possibility of a tour (and Blackadder leaving).

Malice in Wonderland

Malice in Wonderland: The Dolls Movie, a 2011 American comedy starring the drag theater troupe The Dolls

Medea, the Musical

Before Medea, the Musical he wrote and directed Mary! (a musical take on Mary Stuart), Oresteia: The Musical, Cleopatra: the Musical, and Napoleon: The Camp-Drag-Disco-Musical Extravaganza (in which upon discovering that Joséphine de Beauharnais is actually a man, Napoeon decides he is gay and liberates Europe so that all gays can be free).

Men on...

Author J. L. King, whose writings explore the down low phenomenon within the African American male community, cited Blaine and Antoine, along with drag performer RuPaul, as images of what the word "gay" means to African American men who have sex with men to explain one reason why such men do not identify themselves as gay.

Michael Zarnock

Some of the drag cars were used by other people for illegal street races; Zarnock claims that at one such unsanctioned street race he was kidnapped for a time.

Neely O'Hara

Season 4 of RuPaul's Drag Race featured a Chicago born drag contestant who uses a portmanteau of Jacqueline Susann's famous character named "Phi Phi O'Hara".

Nissan 300ZX

The newer Z-car had a drag coefficient of 0.30 and was powered by Japan's first mass-produced V6 engine instead of an I6.

Paulhan-Tatin Aéro-Torpille No.1

The Aéro-Torpille No.1 created great interest during the 1911 Salon de l’Aéronautique, at the Grand Palais in Paris, due to its novel design and streamlined appearance, great care having been taken in the design to eliminate drag.

Propulsion

In terrestrial environments gravity must be overcome, though the drag of air is much less of an issue.

Racing fuel

Methanol fuel, formerly used in some open-wheel race cars, like IndyCar Series prior to 2007 and in Top Alcohol drag racing

Racism in the LGBT community

Chuck Knipp, a white gay male drag performer who is known for his blackface act "Shirley Q. Liquor", has been accused of racism.

Reform School Girl

Other AIP films in the same genre included Drag Strip Girl, Hot Rod Girl, and High School Hellcats.

Sailing on the Seven Seas

The song pays homage to two rock groups: firstly to The Velvet Underground, with the song "Sister Ray" being directly referenced (OMD had previously covered "I'm Waiting for the Man" as a B-side to 1980 single "Messages"); and secondly to The Who, with the line "people try to drag us down" being near-identical in melody and lyrical content to the opening line of "My Generation".

Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler

Predefined subgraphs defining different countries can be assembled with a drag and drop interface.

The S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M.

Visage went on to become a talk show host, along with RuPaul on the cable channel VH1 and can be seen as a current judge on the LOGO hit show RuPaul's DRAG RACE.

Thierry Paulin

There, he started a career as an artist, dressed in drag and singing tunes by his favourite singer, Eartha Kitt.

Tom Hammonds

Tom Edward Hammonds (born March 27, 1967) is a retired American professional basketball player and National Hot Rod Association drag racer.

Top Gear Australia: Ashes Special

Other challenges include a drag race between a Holden VE Commodore ute and a standard looking Ford Transit van customised (unknowingly to the Australian presenters) with a Jaguar XJ220 engine, and the double car race seen in Series 11 of Top Gear UK.

Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum

In 2008, the museum began hosting a special exhibition dedicated to Gale Banks and his contributions to the sport of drag racing.

Westfield, New Zealand

Portage Road is the location of one of the overland routes between the two harbours (and thus the Pacific ocean and the Tasman Sea), where the Maori would beach their waka (canoes) and drag them overland to the other coast, thus avoiding having to paddle around North Cape.

WYSIWYG

The phrase "What you see is what you get", from which the acronym derives, was a catchphrase popularized by Flip Wilson's drag persona "Geraldine" (from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the late 1960s and then on The Flip Wilson Show until 1974).

Z-drag

Trucker's hitch - another 3-fold advantage system using single loops

Zero4 Champ RR-Z

An example of a playable mini-story would involve a Back to the Future-type scenario about going back 300 years in time to the year 1995 in order to beat a record in drag racing using a machine this is similar to the DeLorean time machine driven jointly by Doctor Emmett Brown and Marty McFly.


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