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unusual facts about Rigid-hulled inflatable boat



1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands

Corporal York decided to withdraw his section and proceeded to booby trap their Carl Gustav recoilless rifle, before paddling their Gemini assault boat north across Port William.

Airport Seating

Robert Sommer studied the design of airport seating and concluded that the arrangement of chairs in rigid lines bolted to the floor was deliberately sociofugal — discouraging social interaction such as conversation and encouraging the sitters to go to commercial locations such as shops and cafes.

American Abstract Artists

The pamphlet excoriated notable New York Herald Tribune critic Royal Cortissoz for his rigid loyalty to traditionalism, his patent distaste for abstract and modern art, and generally for what the pamphlet regarded as his "resistance to knowledge".

Aviation between the World Wars

The most famous airships today are the passenger-carrying rigid airships made by the German Zeppelin company, especially the Graf Zeppelin of 1928 and the Hindenburg of 1936.

Banach measure

In mathematics, Banach measure in measure theory may mean a real-valued function on an algebra of all subsets of a set (for example, all subsets of the plane), by means of which a rigid, finitely additive area can be defined for every set, even when a set does not have a true geometric area.

Charles Wilbert Snow

But Snow rebelled at the rigid academic degree progression and told Ashley Horace Thorndike head of Columbia's English Department that the PhD "was a German invention designed to turn an art into a science."

Colin McClelland

After the release of the first album, Inflammable Material, and the negotiations with Chrysalis for the band's first major recording contract, Colin sold his sixth share in Rigid Digits to the other partners.

David Segel

He completed a 2010 expedition through the Northwest Passage, sailing from East to West in an open Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) with adventurer Bear Grylls and traveling 2500 km from Baffin Island to the Beaufort Sea.

Demographics of France

Illegal immigration thus developed as immigration policy became more rigid.

Display board

Display board is a generic term for a board-shaped material that is rigid and strong enough to stand on its own, and generally used paper or other materials affixed to it.

Duplex locomotive

However, the innovation of more rigid hinges that permitted only horizontal swinging movements and not twisting or vertical movement was from ALCO, and not seen until 1936's Union Pacific Challenger.

Eberhard Jäckel

Jäckel argued that far from being an opportunist with no beliefs as had been argued by Alan Bullock, Hitler held to a rigid set of fixed beliefs and he had consistently acted from his "race and space" philosophy throughout his career.

Ernest Monnington Bowden

Sir Frank Bowden, the founder and owner of the Raleigh Bicycle Company was reputed to have started replacing the rigid rods used for bicycle brakes with a flexible wound cable around 1902.

Gary Thieltges

Thieltges' PowerSlide, a wirelessly controlled camera dolly that rides on super rigid track, was used by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki in the famous car ambush scene in Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men.

Horde Zla

The Horde Zla became the fastest growing youth organisation in the city of Sarajevo, Sarajevo Canton, financing itself through a very well organised, vertically integrated marketing system, as well as a very rigid members policy.

Howard St. John

He continued in stuffy, rigid or authoritarian roles for most of his career including memorable roles in The Tender Trap and Born Yesterday.

Hugo Eckener

Refused funds by the penniless Weimar government, Eckener and his colleagues began a nationwide fund-raising lecture tour in order to commence construction of Graf Zeppelin, which became the most successful rigid airship ever built.

Ida Siekmann

Members of the Combat Groups of the Working Class and police controlled every person who tried to enter the houses and the residents were subject to rigid controls, even in the hallways.

Louis-Sébastien Lenormand

Lenormand was succeeded by André-Jacques Garnerin who made the first parachute descent from high altitude (in a gondola detached from a balloon) with the help of a non-rigid parachute on October 22, 1797, and his wife Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse who made a similar descent two years later.

Luftschiffer

After tests of the different available airship types, the semi-rigid Groß airship and the Parseval blimp were abandoned while the rigid airships of Zeppelin and Schütte-Lanz design were selected for service.

MAKOplasty

MAKOplasty is a surgical procedure for partial knee or total hip arthroplasty using a RIO Robotic Arm Interactive Orthopedic System developed by MAKO Surgical Corp. RIO is cleared by the FDA for use in surgical knee and hip procedures, in which the use of stereotactic surgery may be appropriate, and where reference to rigid anatomical bony structures can be identified relative to a CT-based model of anatomy.

Martin Gerbert

Between 1754 and 1764 he published a series of theological treatises, their main tendency being to modify the rigid scholastic system by an appeal to the Fathers, notably Augustine; from 1759 to 1762 he travelled in Germany, Italy and France, mainly with a view to examining the collections of documents in the various monastic libraries.

Miyuki Tanobe

She paints principally on rigid supports such as wood or Masonite sheets.

Mundesley Lifeboat Station

Throughout the summer of 1972 an extensive fund raising campaign was initiated which resulted in the purchase of a 4M Avon Sea Rider semi rigid inflatable which was wholly owned by the new Service.

National Technological University

Because of the length, breath, rigid structure and declaration of intent when enrolling, the degrees are not equivalent to a Bachelor's degree.

NeSSI

A Swagelok system which uses various lengths of tube connectors set in rigid channels; a CIRCORTech design which uses a single block with assorted flow-tubes; and a Parker Hannifin design which uses various blocks ported together with small connectors which also serve as flow paths.

Painlevé

Painlevé paradox, paradox in rigid-body dynamics by Paul Painlevé.

Peacock-class corvette

For these roles each vessel could carry two Avon Searider SR5M Rigid-hulled inflatable boats and a small detachment of Royal Marines.

Peter Garthwaite

In the 1960s he reacted strongly against the then-current view of forestry, driven by economics and based on the rigid application of "net discounted revenue" assessments of timber value; he regarded this as short-sighted, and in association with the landscape architect Dame Sylvia Crowe he fought to broaden the Commission's approach to take account of conservation and landscape.

R23X-class airship

The Vickers-designed 23 class rigid airships, which were basically "stretched" and modified versions of the No. 9 design, were never used in combat; however, the four ships in the class provided many hours of valuable training for British airship crews and experimental data for designers and engineers, and some radical changes and refinements were consequently incorporated into the design of the R23X class.

Ram air

Parafoils, also called ram air parachutes, non-rigid airfoils inflated by wind

Rigid analytic space

Vladimir Berkovich reformulated much of the theory of rigid analytic spaces in the late 1980s, using a generalization of the notion of Gelfand spectrum for commutative unital C*-algebras.

Rolleston Statue

At the time of its unveiling, the sculpture was regarded as a good likeness of Rolleston though has been criticised in more recent times as being "rigid" and "lacking surface interest" when compared to the other Christchurch statues sculpted by Thomas Woolner and George Lawson.

Rosa Bassett School

The Dalton Plan was a system of education developed in Massachusetts by Helen Parkhurst which moved away from traditional, rigid, class-based teaching, allowing for teaching to be adjusted to the pace of each individual child.

Satyakam

Satyapriya's conviction is guided by his ascetic grandfather 'Daddaji' Satyasharan Acharya (Ashok Kumar)'s world views, whose pursuit of truth has led to him living in isolation in a Gurukula studying religious philosophy and observing a variety of rigid rituals.

SimSpark

SimSpark uses the Open Dynamics Engine (ODE) for detecting collisions and for simulating rigid body dynamics.

Sine Requie

In Italy, after the fall of the fascist regime, a rigid theocracy was imposed, ruled by Pope Leone XIV.

Single-issue politics

Single-issue politics may express itself through the formation of a single-issue party, an approach that tends to be more successful in parliamentary systems based on proportional representation than in rigid two-party systems (like that of the United States).

Stokes boundary layer

Harmonic motion, parallel to a plane rigid plate, will result in the fluid near the plate being dragged with the plate, due to the viscous shear stresses.

TI Automotive

The Fuldabrück location focuses on flexible tube products, while the Heidelberg, location produces rigid tube products.

Traditional Vietnamese wedding

While tea has always been an essential part of Vietnamese life, Vietnamese tea culture is not as complex or ritually rigid as its counterparts in China, Japan or Korea.

Transpeptidase

DD-transpeptidase, a bacterial enzyme that cross-links the peptidoglycan chains to form rigid cell walls

Triple junction stability

By assuming that plates are rigid and that the earth is spherical, Leonhard Euler’s theorem of motion on a sphere can be used to reduce the stability assessment to determining boundaries and relative motions of the interacting plates.

Triumph sprung hub

It was designed by Triumph engineer Edward Turner to give Triumph's existing rigid frames the option of rear suspension.

USS Shenandoah

Four United States Navy ships, including one rigid airship, and one ship of the Confederate States of America, have been named Shenandoah, after the Shenandoah River of western Virginia and West Virginia.

Vibrations of a circular membrane

The vibrations of an idealized circular drum head—essentially an elastic membrane of uniform thickness attached to a rigid circular frame—are solutions of the wave equation with zero boundary conditions.

Westwood, Baillie

In 1887 the company made the girders for the Lansdowne Bridge over the Indus River, then the longest rigid girder bridge in the world.

Yourself!Fitness

In a 2006 fitness promotional campaign with the popular fast-food chain McDonald's, purchasers of an "Active Meal" (consisting of a salad and bottled water) could receive one of four Yourself!Fitness DVDs, playable in a standard DVD player, which contains a rigid workout regimen also led by Maya.

Žarko Petan

Together with Dominik Smole, Taras Kermauner and Dane Zajc, he was one of the co-founders of the alternative theatre Stage 57, which challenged the rigid cultural policies of the Titoist regime.


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