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unusual facts about Octane


Mark Hales

He was also a contributor and track-tester for the British motorracing magazines Evo and Octane.


Augustine Warner Robins

In 1935, he was promoted to Brigadier General, one of four in the Army Air Corps at that time, and was given command of the Materiel Division at Wright Field; for the next four years, he would push for increased funding for research and development, as well as key technologies such as B-17s, the Norden bombsight, and the high-octane gasoline that would later power the fighters of World War II in the European and Pacific theaters.

Continental Motors, Inc.

Continental O-520 – six-cylinder, 320-horsepower, 100-octane, 1500-hour design time between overhauls.

Donna Allen

At one point a cheerleader for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, she got her start performing in the bands Hi-Octane,Trama and Maxx.

Harry Ricardo

The dramatic reduction in fuel use as a result of higher-octane fuel was directly responsible for allowing Alcock and Brown to fly the Atlantic in their Vickers Vimy bombers adapted with his modifications.

Hispano-Suiza 12Y

The Armée de l'Air changed their nomenclature, so the next version was the Hispano-Suiza 12Y-21, which increased the compression ratio to 7:1, when running on 100 octane gasoline.

History of perpetual motion machines

Guido Franch reportedly had a process of transmuting water molecules into high-octane gasoline compounds (named Mota fuel) that would reduce the price of gasoline to 8 cents per gallon.

Houses of the Blooded

Wick credits the game system to two chief inspirations: octaNe by Jared Sorensen and the FATE System by Evil Hat Productions.

Kill Speed

The film is set in the scorched desert of Southern California and Keegan, Quinn, Natalia Cigliuti, Nick Carter, Reno Wilson, Christian Monzon and Greg Grunberg play characters involved in a high-octane “TOP GUN” meets “FAST & FURIOUS” type tale about best friends who fly super fast, high-tech, experimental airplanes to deliver Mexican manufactured crystal meth throughout California in order to fund their Hollywood, rock-star lifestyle.

Madang Airport

A large amount of high octane fuel was captured and used by the Australians for use in the Royal Australian Navy motor launch boats.

MCMT

Methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl, a gasoline additive to increase the fuel's octane rating.

Natalie Pa‘apa’a

Known for their strong political songs and high octane live performances, Blue King Brown have opened for local and international acts as diverse as Carlos Santana, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Damian Marley, The John Butler Trio, The Cat Empire, Silverchair, and Powderfinger.

Opel Admiral

During the 1970s Germany followed general trend of discouraging the addition lead to road fuel, which was followed by a reduction in the octane levels of the "normal" and "super" grade fuels widely available at filling stations.

Opel Kadett B

However, the early 1970s saw increasing awareness of the dangers to health arising from lead being added to road fuel, and the oil companies responded to the resulting political and regulatory pressures by reducing both the levels of lead in fuel and the availability at filling stations of higher octane petrol/gasoline.

Primus Green Energy

Several notable New Jersey politicos, including former Governor James Florio, U.S. Congressman Leonard Lance, Board of Public Utilities Commissioner Joseph Fiordaliso and New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Assistant Commissioner Robert Marshall, spoke at the dedication ceremony, and the ceremony also marked the first time that 93-octane gasoline produced via Primus’ STG+ process was used to fuel the test drive of a car.

Ruthless Rap Assassins

The album was a mixture of social commentary ("Justice (Just Us)") and more comical tunes ("Jealous MC" or a high-octane cover of The Coaster's "Yakety Yak").

Sundo

Critic Nitz Miralles described the film as "a high octane horror", she continuous to praise director Topel Lee for his ability to genuinely scare the audience, as like from his previous horror film efforts like Ouija and Yaya.

Welcome to the Fall

The track "All is Numb" had a music video and found considerable airplay on the Sirius Satellite Radio station, Octane.

White gas

"White" gas is colorless, as opposed to "regular" octane fuel, which has orange dye added for identification, or high-octane "ethyl", which has purple dye added.

XIO

XIO is usually used in a star topology, using a router ASIC called Crossbow (Xbow) to connect up to eight fully symmetrical devices in a system (one of them is usually the memory controller / CPU bridge, called HEART in Octane or Hub in Origin).


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