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unusual facts about Leading-edge slats


Wing fence

Slats can act as fences directly, in the form of their actuators, but also reduce the problem by improving the angle of attack response of the wing and moving the stall point to a lower speed.


1923–24 Cardiff City F.C. season

In a goalless draw for most of the game, Cardiff were awarded a penalty and leading scorer Len Davies stepped up to take it, but missed and the game resulted in a goalless draw meaning Cardiff wouldn't win the title and would instead finish as runners-up.

A. Maitland Emmet

During his life, Maitland Emmet became one of Britain's leading specialists in the Microlepidoptera, as well as a Classical scholar.

Ahmad Dilshad

Asia Times called him a "leading LeT Lashkar-e-Tayyiba ringleader"—a militant group devoted to an independence for the portion of Kashmir occupied by India.

Andreyevsky Bridge

Pushkinsky bridge connects First Frunzenskaya street in Khamovniki (left bank) with the southern edge of Gorky Park and Titovsky Proezd leading to Leninsky Avenue (right bank).

Ann Robinson

Her career as a leading woman was effectively ended in 1957, when she eloped to Mexico to marry a matador, Jaime Bravo, with whom she had two sons; Jaime Bravo, Jr., who is a director for ABC Sports, and Estefan A. Bravo, who played the Axl Rose-like character in White Trash Wins Lotto, a musical by Andy Prieboy.

Art Edwards

They added Brian Blush, formerly of August Red, later in 1993 to round out their sound, and played their first gig in January 1994 leading off for Flathead at Long Wong's.

Bob De Carolis

He was credited with leading the largest fundraising campaign in the history of the Oregon State athletic department, raising funds for a project to expand Reser Stadium.

Carl Spielvogel

In 1997, he was named Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the Financial Times, the leading global and financial newspaper.

Chaim Shemesh

In 2002 Shemesh joined the leading record company ‘NMC’ as a content VP, where he managed the company’s marketing and public relations and developed new business modules to the music industry (on-line music downloading web sites, artist management systems, etc.).

Chen Duxiu

In the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the example of Chen in collaborating with Wang Jingwei's Wuhan government, leading to the ostracism of his peers and the failure of Communist policies at the time, was used by Peng Zhen as a warning never to "forgive" anti-Maoists.

David H. Mason

In the House he was a leading proponent of the leveling of Boston's Fort Hill, the merger of the Western Railroad and the Boston and Worcester Railroad, and the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

David Sheehan

In the 1980s, while at NBC, Sheehan was the first local entertainment reporter to host and produce his own series of network specials, including “Macho Men of the Movies” (with Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger) and “Hollywood’s Leading Ladies” (with Julia Roberts, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Stone and Barbra Streisand).

Du Yuanying

While later serving as the military governor (Jiedushi) of Xichuan Circuit (西川, headquartered in modern Chengdu), he was further blamed for failure of discipline that caused his soldiers to provoke a major Nanzhao invasion against Xichuan, leading to his exile.

Edwin Dickinson

The progressive tipping and enclosure of space can be observed in the sequence of works leading up to this one, a strategy that parallels modernist tendencies toward pictorial abstraction accompanied by spatial flattening.

Evelyn Rudie

During the late 1950s, she acted on other leading television shows, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents, General Electric Theater, Lawman, The Red Skelton Show and Wagon Train, along with seven appearances on The Tonight Show with Jack Paar.

Greater Jakarta

Jabodetabek, Depok was carved out of Bogor Regency in 1999, leading to the new name (but covering the same area as Jabotabek) Similarly, South Tangerang was carved out of Tangerang Regency, without a name change or area change.

Ian Brooker

He is widely recognised as the leading authority on the genus Eucalyptus.

Ilayath

The leading role in the movie Chekavar, played by Indrajith (Ksahinathan Ilayath) is a practicing Ilayath Brahmin.

Investor Network on Climate Risk

In 2007, more than 20 leading companies, including Alcoa, BP America, Caterpillar, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Ford Motor Co., Johnson & Johnson, and others, issued a formal call for national legislation calling for significant reductions in GHG emissions.

Janet Elaine Paul

Booksellers and publishers Blackwood and Janet Paul Ltd. had, by the mid 1960s, overtaken Caxton as New Zealand’s leading publishers of poetry, and in 1968 Janet had published Glover’s Sharp Edge Up: Verses and Satires.

Jean Crespin

In 1540 he was in Paris, where he worked with his friend François Baudouin under the leading jurist and advocate Charles Du Moulin, and became himself advocate at the Parlement of Paris.

Jeffersonian democracy

John Randolph, after leading the party in Congress, formed the "Old Republicans" or Tertium Quids or "Quid" faction, saying Jefferson had strayed too far from the core values of republicanism.

Joseph Benjamin Stenbuck

Joseph Benjamin Stenbuck (December 22, 1891 – June 1, 1951) was a leading Manhattan surgeon at Sydenham and Harlem Hospital.

Let's Rock Again!

The memoir was shot by filmmaker and longtime Strummer friend Dick Rude in the 18 months leading up to Strummer's death in 2002.

Máire Mhac an tSaoi

Mhac an tSaoi has had a lifelong passion for the Irish language and she is today one of the leading authorities on Munster Irish.

Marcelo Bonevardi

Bonevardi's work has been collected by many leading North American and Latin American museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City; the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires; the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade in São Paulo; and the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City.

Martin Scorsese Is Really Quite a Jovial Fellow

In the years leading up to the song's recording/release director Martin Scorsese had released both Raging Bull (1980) and The King of Comedy (1983).

Metz family

This second generation included Auguste Metz, Charles Metz, and Norbert Metz, who were all leading liberal politicians during the early stages of Luxembourg's independence, in the mid-nineteenth century.

Mount Shindainichi

The mountain is easily accessible by a hiking trail from Yabitsu Pass, which intersects with the Nagaone Trail from the village of Kiyokawa, and with the trail leading directly to Mount Tō which is approximately a 40 minute hike.

Muniz Casmuniz 52

A low-wing cantilever monoplane with a 185hp (138kW) Continental E185 flat six engines mounted on the leading edge of wing.

Nathan B. Devereaux Octagon House

At some point in the 1850s, Nathan Bartlet Devereaux travelled to Ann Arbor to attend a lecture by Orson Squire Fowler, the leading proponent of octagonal houses.

Nils Malmros

Both Anne Louise Hassing and Søren Østergaard received the same awards for their leading roles and both supporting actors received Bodil awards as well.

Pat Crowley

Crowley was often confused with her acting contemporary Kathleen Crowley, who appeared as the guest leading lady in different episodes of most of the same television series.

Paul Laikin

Returning home in 1947, he studied English at Columbia University and began writing for leading comedians, including Jackie Gleason, Milton Berle, Jan Murray, Ed Wynn and Alan King.

SAP Arena

A tram line (number 6) connects the SAP Arena to Mannheim city center and a newly built road connection to the B 38a highway connects it to the A 656 Autobahn, leading to the A656/A 6 interchange, connecting eastbound Mannheim to Heidelberg (A656), and north/southbound to Frankfurt, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart (A6), as well as a little north on the A6 to Kaiserlautern (westbound).

Scotch-Irish American

In reaction to the proposal by Charles I and Thomas Wentworth to raise an army manned by Irish Catholics to put down the Covenanter movement in Scotland, the Parliament of Scotland had threatened to invade Ireland in order to achieve "the extirpation of Popery out of Ireland" (according to the interpretation of Richard Bellings, a leading Irish politician of the time).

Super Bowl Sunday

The television network carrying the game (either CBS, Fox, or NBC) will usually devote the entire day's programming schedule to the game, with extended pregame shows, NFL Films retrospectives of the previous season, and special versions of the Sunday morning talk shows in the morning and afternoon hours leading into the game.

Suwannaphum District

In 1718, the first Lao muang in the Chi valley — and indeed anywhere in the interior of the Khorat Plateau — was founded as Suwannaphum (in latter-day Roi Et Province) by an official in the service of King Nokasad of the Kingdom of Champasak, leading some 3,000 subjects.

Sydney Wayser

The Louvre Palace and the Orangerie being only a few blocks from her apartment, she quickly gleaned much of French culture from her songwriter father, leading her to musical influences that include Edith Piaf, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Jacques Brel, among many others.

Tatyana Vedeneyeva

She became well known amongst the Soviet children of 70s and 80s for her leading role in children programs Good Night, Little Ones!, and Visiting a Fairy Land (V gostiakh u skazki) as "Aunt Tania".

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

The crime takes place at the Chateau du Glandier, located in the forest, near the road leading to Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois and Montlhéry.

Thomas Glazier

Thomas Glazier of Oxford (fl. 1386-1427) was a master glazier active in England during the late 14th and early 15th century; he is one of the earliest identifiable stained glass artists, and is considered a leading proponent of the International Gothic style.

Tom Stocky

He’s credited with Google’s early forays into travel, leading up to the acquisition of ITA Software, which closed in April, 2011.

Tsholotsho District

Tsholotsho is a well known “battle ground” of Zimbabwean politics with the latest event being the so-called Tsholotsho Declaration of 2005 involving leading ZANU-PF members and current Tsholotsho Member of parliament Jonathan Moyo in which they were accused of mooting a boardroom removal of President Mugabe.

Twin Cities Rail Transport

The system began to decline in the years leading up to World War II as automobile use began to rise.

University of Nashville

Lindsley, along with George Ticknor at Harvard, Jacob Abbott at Amherst, and James Marsh at the University of Vermont, was considered one of the leading educational reformers of the era.

University of the Philippines College of Medicine

The U.P. College of Medicine has a seven-year medical curriculum, the Integrated Liberal Arts and Medicine (INTARMED) Program, ultimately leading to the degree of doctor of medicine (M.D.).

Werner von Clemm

His son Michael von Clemm went on to become a leading American banker who was involved in Western banking operations in Africa and helped found Canary Wharf.

Wood Wharf

In September 2012 Terry Farrell was appointed to replace Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners in leading the development of the masterplanning.

Zach Mills

In 2007 he appeared in the Hallmark movie The Valley of Light, and that year would also mark his leading role in Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, in which he acted alongside Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman.


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