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unusual facts about Fitting-out



A Plane Is Born

Mark takes on the delicate task of fitting the engine to the fuselage as well as connecting fuel lines, the Plenum chamber and exhaust manifold .

Additive model

Fitting the AM (i.e. the functions f j(x {ij})) can be done using the backfitting algorithm proposed by Andreas Buja, Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani (1989).

Airspeed Oxford

(He received the Fellowship of the Royal Aeronautical Society for his innovative fitting of a retractable undercarriage to the aircraft.)

Amiga 3000

"Fast RAM" can be increased by fitting DIP (up to 4 MB) or ZIP DRAM chips (up to 16 MB) available in two varieties, Page Mode or Static Column.

Analyse-it

Analyse-it provides a range of standard parametric and non-parametric procedures, including Descriptive statistics, ANOVA, Mann–Whitney, Wilcoxon, chi-square, correlation, linear regression, logistic regression, polynomial regression and advanced model fitting.

Bartolomeo Zaccaria

As the eldest son of "King" Martin, born into the Genoese Zaccaria family which rule Chios, Bartolomeo was a fitting match for the highborn Frankish heiress, who co-ruled with her mother, Maria dalle Carceri, and stepfather, Andrea Cornaro.

Battle of Tel Hai

The words attributed to Trumpeldor are clearly a variant of the well known saying "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" ("It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country"), derived from the Odes of the Roman poet Horace - lines with which Trumpeldor, like other educated Europeans of the time, may have been familiar with.

Bespoke

Cad & the Dandy, a modern Savile Row tailor, describes true bespoke as having a full floating canvas, basted fitting and detailed hand finishing.

British Rail Class 170

The Class 170 were refurbished in 2008 with the three-carriage units repainted at Marcroft Engineering, Stoke on Trent, the two-carriage units at EWS' Toton depot and the interiors done by Transys Projects, Clacton-on-Sea including the fitting of first class seating to the Class 170/5s and 170/6s.

Charles W. Chipp

Jeannette was fitting out for her mission, which would be to attempt to sail to the North Pole via the Bering Strait.

Comand APS

In late 2011, Mercedes starting fitting the new COMAND-APS NTG4.5 to its W204 cars, and then to other models such as the W212, W207 and R172 SLK.

Cormorant-class gunvessel

The first 6 ships were ordered from commercial yards (Money Wigram & Son, C J Mare & Co and J Scott Russell), with fitting out to be done in the Royal Dockyards at Chatham (first pair) and Woolwich (last 4).

Cosmos Engineering

The factory on Lodge Causeway was subsequently taken over by Parnall & Sons for shop and ship fitting and aircraft component manufacturing.

Daniel Arsham

:In 2005, Arsham was commissioned by legendary fashion designer Hedi Slimane to design the fitting rooms for Dior Homme's Los Angeles shop.

Dulcie and Decorum

The title is a play on the first words of Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, the Latin phrase meaning "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country."

Electric Transit, Inc.

With both the Dayton and San Francisco orders, the chassis/body-frame (or shell) and motors of each vehicle were fabricated at Škoda's plant in Ostrov nad Ohří, Czech Republic, then shipped to a facility in Hunt Valley, Maryland (near other AAI facilities) for initial fitting-out.

Eve Tokimatsuri

Her wardrobe varies, but in her hidden chamber within Bahamut her holographic avatar wears a loose fitting robe reminiscent of a Sibylline oracle.

GWR 4900 Class 4936 Kinlet Hall

The fitting of OTMR has allowed it to provide motive power for various mainline excursions, including Vintage Trains' Shakespeare Express and the Three Choirs Express excursion, double-heading with 5029 'Nunney Castle'.

Jagdgeschwader 400

A number of solutions were tried out, the most innovative being fitting a battery of six 50mm mortars, firing upwards.

John Boyd Dunlop

In 1887, he developed the first practical pneumatic or inflatable tyre for his son's tricycle, fitting it to a wooden disc 96cm across in the yard of his home in Belfast.

Kathak

The design is akin to a chudidaar kameez, but is somewhat tighter fitting above the waist, and the 'skirt' portion explicitly cut on the round to enhance the flare of the lower half during spins.

Lioré et Olivier LeO H-246

The German Luftwaffe took over the three seized ex-Air France aircraft, fitting them with five MG 15 machine guns as a defensive armament and carrying up to 21 soldiers or 14 stretchers.

Marine canvas

The design of these covers requires the fabricator to either pattern the object being covered, by creating templates out of disposable paper or plastic that are laid directly onto the area or object, or by laying the fabric to be used directly onto the object and fitting it.

Mass of Paul VI

In his 1962 apostolic constitution Veterum sapientia on the teaching of Latin, Pope John XXIII spoke of that language as the one the Church uses: "...the Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular."

Messier-Bugatti-Dowty

Querétaro: manufacturing of major landing gear components for: A320 main landing gear fitting, A330 main landing gear bogie beam and B787 nose landing gear inner cylinder.

Miles Messenger

The production aircraft were built at Newtownards in Northern Ireland and flown to Woodley for final fitting out.

Nikolai Kolomeitsev

Kolomeitsev supervised the fitting out of the Zarya in Larvik, Norway.

NYC Mohawk

It was known as the Mountain type on other roads, but the mighty New York Central didn't see the name to be fitting on its famous Water Level Route, so it instead picked the name of one of those rivers its rails followed, the Mohawk River, to name its newest type of locomotive.

Old Folks at Home

The first suggestion was "Yazoo" (in Mississippi), which despite fitting the melody perfectly, Foster rejected.

Paddington, New South Wales

The clock was officially set in motion on Wednesday, 30 August 1905, by Mr. J.H. Carruthers, the Premier of New South Wales, who mentioned in passing that "he thought that the day on which peace had been declared between Russia and Japan was a fitting time to set it in motion" and that "he hoped there would be peace and goodwill on earth as long as the clock continued to go".

Petroleum industry in Aberdeen

It is the worlds worst offshore disaster and there is a fitting memorial in Hazlehead Park.

Quest for Saddam

Fitting its genre, the goal is to fight Iraqi soldiers and eventually to kill the boss, Saddam Hussein.

Rachol Seminary

The chorus of Te Deum laudamus, sung by those gathered in the Basilica of Bom Jesus, Old Goa, was a fitting finale of thanksgiving to the Most Holy Trinity for the 400 years of service that Rachol has rendered to the Church in Goa and to humanity at large.

Revelle Inlet

It was resighted by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947–48, under Ronne, who named it for Roger Revelle, oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who gave technical assistance during the fitting out of the Ronne expedition.

RMS Queen Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth sat at the fitting-out dock at the shipyard in her Cunard colours until 2 November 1939, when the Ministry of Shipping issued special licences to declare her seaworthy.

Seahorse Seashell Party

When Lois tries to tell Meg that she is simply taking her own problems out on everyone else, Meg brings up her mother's delinquent past and tells her that she is far from the perfect parent, and harshly berates her for constantly and ruthlessly pointing out Meg's shortcomings and pointing out how she has neglected to protect her from harm and guide her through life in fitting in and being more like other people.

Shoe-fitting fluoroscope

A shoe-fitting fluoroscope can be seen near the beginning of the 1967 film Billion Dollar Brain, starring Michael Caine.

Sounds of Christmas

In the spoken patter at the outset of the Mathis/Bette Midler duet "Winter Wonderland/Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" from Midler's 2006 holiday album "Cool Yule", Midler is heard describing Mathis as "the king of Christmas", a fitting title given his many holiday albums.

Stott and Sons

As would be fitting for an upwardly mobile Manchester family, A. H. Stott bought the Pensychnant Estate, near Conway in Gwynedd.

Stuart Brisley

Recent works also include Brisley’s disarmingly sober watercolour landscapes from a series entitled Jerusalem, a fitting reference to William Blake’s lauded poem and substitute national anthem in which trees and foliage seem to sprout and grow from amidst the rubble.

TGV world speed record

The axles on 24049 and 24050 were removed and on 2 February, shipped to the Bischheim shops in eastern France for fitting with even larger 1090 mm (43 in) wheels.

The Fire Rose

Rose, fitting all the qualifications and having no other options, accepts the job and travels by train to his manor outside San Francisco.

Timeline of heat engine technology

c 1100s - China, the earliest depiction of a gun showing a metal body and a tight-fitting projectile which maximises the conversion of the hot gases to forward motion.

Toe socks

This provides a non-slip surface and provides for a more complete range of motion for form-fitting yoga, pilates, or Wii Fit exercises.

Torpedo net

In spite of fitting the major ships with anti-torpedo nets, and close danger of war, the Russians did not deploy the nets during the Japanese destroyer torpedo attack on the Imperial Russian Navy stationed on a roadside of Port Arthur on 8 February 1904, which was the opening shots of the Russo-Japanese War.

UNIQUAC

An alternative is to obtain activity coefficients with a method such as UNIFAC, and the UNIFAC parameters can then be simplified by fitting to obtain the UNIQUAC parameters.

Ute av verden

His time in upper secondary school was troubled, with difficulties fitting in socially and disastrous attempts to woo girls.

Valentyn Galunko

Education: secondary school (village of Slobodo-Shlyshkovetska, Vinnytsia Oblast, 1979), Fitting College (town of Mogyliv-Podilskyi, 1983); Higher Military Command and Engineering College (now Serpukhov Military Academy of Missile troops) (town of Serpukhov, Moscow Oblast, 1988), National Academy of Internal Affairs (city of Kiev, 1998); post-graduate studies at the National Academy of Internal Affairs (2003); doctorate at Kharkiv National Academy of Internal Affairs (2009).

Viral phylodynamics

Because computing likelihoods for genealogical data under complex simulation models has proven difficult, an alternative statistical approach called Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) is becoming popular in fitting these simulation models to patterns of genetic variation, following successful application of this approach to bacterial diseases.

Women's association football

In September 2008, FC de Rakt women's team (FC de Rakt DA1) in the Netherlands made international headlines by swapping its old kit for a new one featuring short skirts and tight-fitting shirts.


see also

Capitani Romani-class cruiser

Cornelio Silla, named after Lucius Cornelius Sulla, built by Ansaldo Genoa, launched 28 June 1941; captured in Genoa by the Germans while fitting out; never completed.

Tacoma-class frigate

Ice prevented patrol frigates built on the Great Lakes from transiting the Soo Locks on the St. Marys River between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan in the winter and spring, requiring them to be floated down the Mississippi River on pontoons to New Orleans or Houston for fitting out, often doubling their construction time.