X-Nico

unusual facts about G-Craft



Alaska Airlines Flight 261

In 2012, the film drama Flight, directed and co-produced by Robert Zemeckis, featured an airplane crash of a craft resembling an MD-83, though the film's version recorded just six fatalities (four passengers, two crew) of the 102 persons aboard.

Assisted take-off

This allows the daughter craft to be designed with fewer weight and aerodynamic restrictions allowing for exotic configurations to be used or tested, for example the recent SpaceShipOne, and previously the Bell X-1 and other X-planes.

Brew Masters

Sam travels to New Zealand and collaborates with Epic Brewing Company to brew a special indigenous tamarillo and pōhutukawa brew for Beervana, an annual craft beer competition.

BrewDog

On September 2013 a TV show titled Brew Dogs premiered on the US television channel, Esquire Network where James and Martin travel across America visiting different American beer towns, celebrating distinctive craft beers and creating their own locally-inspired brews.

Chris-Craft

For the NASA flight director, see Christopher C. Kraft, Jr.

Chris-Craft Boats

Chris-Craft sold high end powerboats to wealthy patrons such as Henry Ford and William Randolph Hearst.

Cochrane's Craft

Cochrane’s Craft, which is also known as Cochranianism, is a tradition of the Neopagan religion of Witchcraft founded in 1951 by the English Witch Robert Cochrane, who himself claimed to have been taught it by some of his elderly family members, a claim that is disputed by some historians such as Ronald Hutton and Leo Ruickbie.

Common Craft

Common Craft is a small instructional video company owned by Sachi and Lee LeFever

Conrad Coates

He appeared in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief as Hephaestus, God of Craft and husband to Aphrodite, Unnatural History as Samuel Tolo & a guest appearance in the Fringe episode What Lies Below as Vincent Ames.

Craft Lake City

The festival partnered with the Salt Lake Film Festival to continue festivities a second day, August 15, with a screening of Faythe Levine’s film “Handmade Nation” followed by a question and answer session with some Craft Lake City artists.

Deemi

Her song of choice was Whitney Houston's "Greatest Love of All." She was accepted into Manhattan's Talent Unlimited High School to perfect her craft.

Drive-In Massacre

A score of two out of four was given by TV Guide, which wrote "Obviously inspired by Peter Bogdanovich's masterful Targets, Drive-In Massacre has none of its predecessor's insight, intelligence, or craft. Instead, it's an ultracheap slice-and-dice effort that even boasts the tired 'They're coming to get you!' ending designed to make drive-in audiences uncomfortable. Needless to say, the effect is greatly diminished on home video".

Experimenter Publishing

The April 1958 Radio-Electronics (formerly Radio Craft) has a 16-page story on Gernsback's 50 year publishing history.

Fernspählehrkompanie 200

There is a brief mention of the FLSK200 in the XCOM: Enemy Unknown video game, where they lead the first reconnaisance of an alien landing craft, before the player takes over.

For sale: baby shoes, never worn

In a 1992 letter to Canadian humorist John Robert Colombo, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke recounts it thus: While lunching with friends at a restaurant (variously identified as Luchow's or The Algonquin), Hemingway bets the table ten dollars each that he can craft an entire story in six words.

Force d'action navale

This force also operates five smaller craft which are based in Fort de France, Toulon, Papeete, Nouméa, and La Réunion.

Fuel economy in aircraft

As over 80% of the fully laden take-off weight of a modern aircraft such as the Airbus A380 is craft and fuel, there remains considerable room for future improvements in fuel efficiency.

Gary Scott Thompson

Spending much of his childhood in American Samoa, Thompson first gained exposure to the world of entertainment as an actor, studying the craft from such actors as Powers Boothe.

Gershom Craft House

Craft planted over 100 different species of fruits on the farm and named it after the Roman goddess of fruit trees, Pomona.

Gray Marine Motor Company

The marine engine division continued operations for over forty years, and is most known for converting automotive engines for fishboats, cruisers and World War II Landing Craft, such as the Canadian Ramped Cargo Lighter and the famed Higgins Boats.

Greenfly

Self-replicating spacecraft, a fictional self-replicating space craft in the science fiction novels by Alastair Reynolds.

Harry Darby

The plant built one craft a day and floated them more than 1,000 miles down the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans, Louisiana prompting their "Prairie Ships" nickname.

HMCS Prevost

In August 1949 one 112 foot Fairmile, HMCS Racoon, converted to diesel power, replaced the two Harbor Craft.

Iqbal Athas

On 26 July 2005, President Chandrika Kumaratunga told a meeting of 1,000 military officials that he was considering charging Athas under the Official Secrets Act after Athas wrote a column describing the purchase of a British logistics landing craft as a waste of money.

Japanese transport Oigawa Maru

She left Rabaul, New Britain on 1 March 1943, as part of Operation 81, carrying a cargo of troops, equipment, fuel, landing craft and ammunition for Lae, New Guinea.

KTXH

Channel 20 became an owned-and-operated station of the United Paramount Network (owned by Chris-Craft Industries in a programming partnership with Viacom, and later co-owned in a joint venture with Chris-Craft when it bought a 50% share in the network in 1996) upon the network's January 16, 1995 launch.

Langley Aerodrome

Aerodrome No. 5, the first Langley heavier-than-air craft to fly, is on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Aerodrome No. 6 is located at Wesley W. Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh, and was restored in part by the Pitt engineering students.

Larry Don

According to legend, it was built from a World War II landing craft that was quartered in St. Louis and trucked to the Lake of the Ozarks.

Manned Venus Flyby

As a "Plan B" in case the proposed Inspiration Mars fly-by of Mars missed its 2018 launch window, in November 2013 Dennis Tito proposed a different mission architecture whereby the mission craft would first fly-by Venus, using Venus in a gravitational slingshot to speed the craft's onward journey to Mars.

Marakkalage

The name Marakkalage derives from the type of craft Marakkar (Marakkalam in Tamil means Wooden Ship) used in trade and warfare by the rulers of the Kuru Mandala coast (the region of the Kurus) and Sri Lanka.

Marcella Craft

Craft graduated from Riverside High School in 1893.

Mario Fucini

On 16 February 1917, he brought back his flaming Voisin to a landing at Monfalcone; he received a Bronze Medal for Military Valor for saving the craft and himself.

Matt's Mood

Among the songs on the new album is "Ronnie's Samba": a collage of solo material by the late Ronnie Ross, a legendary baritone saxophonist, who also played on early Matt Bianco material, woven into a tribute to his immortal craft.

Matti Kovler

In September 2013 Matti was recognized by the Boston Foundation as one of the six winners of the 2013 Brother Thomas Fellowships, “no strings attached” $15,000 bi-annual awards designed to support 6 talented artists making outstanding contributions to their community through excellence in their craft.

MV Western Belle

She operated on all of the 'River Link' services of Dart Pleasure craft, including Dartmouth-Totnes, the Dartmouth-Kingswear Ferry and circular cruises from Dartmouth.

My Science Project

A man, (President Dwight D. Eisenhower), enters to see the craft and simply orders his men to "get rid of it."

NASA Pathfinder

The new center section was topped by more-efficient silicon solar cells developed by SunPower Corporation of Sunnyvale, California, which could convert almost 19 percent of the solar energy they receive to useful electrical energy to power the craft's motors, avionics and communication systems.

National Day Parade, 2009

Since the parade is held by the bay, waterways in the bay was out of bounds to the usual sea craft and bumboats ferrying tourists along Singapore River.

New Horizons

The craft was launched by a Lockheed Martin Atlas V 551 rocket, with an ATK Star 48B third stage added to increase the heliocentric (escape) speed.

Ninkasi

In ancient Mesopotamia the brewer's craft was the only profession which derived social sanction and divine protection from female deities/goddesses, specificially: Ninkasi, who covered the production of beer, Siris, who was used in a metonymic way to refer to beer, and Siduri, who covered the enjoyment of beer.

Psychotropica

Sage had Süin most highly follow the works of Goblin and Tangerine Dream for inspiration, while pushing Süin to take maximum freedom and musical liberties within the genre to craft the ultimate "mind blowing" score for the ultimate "mind blowing" film.

Reifendrehen

Today part of the exhibition at the Ore Mountain Toy Museum in Seiffen is dedicated to the craft of the turners - the Reifendreher - who make these toys.

Robert Craft

Craft also led the world premieres of Stravinsky's later masterpieces; Vom Himmel hoch, Agon, The Flood, Abraham and Isaac, Variations, Introitus, and Requiem Canticles.

Röhss family

250,000 kronor were given to the establishment of the craft and design museum known at the time as Röhsska konstslöjdmuseet (now Röhsska museet för konsthantverk och design, and in English as the Röhsska Museum).

Section patrol

A Section Patrol craft was a civilian vessel registered by the United States Navy for potential service during and shortly after World War I.

Sharaya J

Sharaya later went on to work with other top choreographers, Laurieann Gibson, Tanisha Scott, Fatima Robinson, Hi-Hat, and Jamaica Craft (formerly one-third of The Goldmind's act So Def).

Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania

It is widely held that the Flight 93 hijackers intended to use the craft to destroy the United States Capitol building in Washington, D.C. The crash here was a result of a struggle over control of the plane between hijackers and passengers, who learned of the plane's intended fate through cellphone calls to and from family members.

The Drovers

Songwriters Mike Kirkpatrick (guitar) and David Callahan (bass, vocals) drew from Irish rhythms to craft songs that became increasingly psychedelic over a 12-year period until the band ceased performing in September 2002.

USS X-1

Towed to Annapolis, Maryland, in December 1960, X-1 was reactivated and attached to Submarine Squadron 6 and based at the Small Craft Facility of the Severn River Command for experimental duties in Chesapeake Bay.

Westermoen

Toralf Westermoen (1914–1986), pioneer for the development of high speed craft in Norway


see also

Toshiro Tsuchida

Toshiro Tsuchida worked for Japanese development studios Masaya and G-Craft, the latter of which he founded in 1993 after leaving Masaya.