The Dodge Chicago Aircraft Engine Plant was a World War II defense plant that built the majority of the B-29 bomber aircraft engines used in World War II.
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As the cyclone progressed inland, it dropped light to moderate rainfall, peaking at around 3 inches (75 mm) in Corpus Christi.
Racing northeast, the cyclone moved over the Polar ice cap on October 11, arcing north of Europe, before dropping into northern Asia on October 13, then crossing through Siberia until October 21, when the low dissipated.
This storm is known as the Vega Cyclone, named after the USS Vega which reported the storm.
The hurricane remains the strongest Atlantic tropical cyclone above 30.4°N, since Hurricane Dog of 1950 weakened to below 150 mph (240 km/h) as it reached that latitude.
This system ultimately developed into a very severe cyclonic storm, designated Cyclone 10B by the JTWC, with three-minute sustained winds of 120 km/h (75 mph) before striking East Pakistan (modern-day Bangladesh).
Peaking as a Category 4 cyclone, and making landfall as a Category 2, it caused significant damage in the Cairns region which it approached on two occasions.It was the largest cyclone to hit Northern Queensland in 1997.
With the first advice, a cyclone watch was immediately declared for the Queensland coast between Ayr and St Lawrence, and TCWC Brisbane upgraded the low to Tropical Cyclone Odette on 3 March.
No Tropical Cyclone intensified into a Severe Tropical cyclones this season to the east of 160E, with only Cyclone Hamish intensifying into one to the west of 160E.
On February 3 it strengthened to become the first Severe Tropical Cyclone since Gene in early 2008.
Abbey Cyclone, The Thunderer, The Thunderer Patent, LYR, L&NWR, LMS, GNR, Army ordnance mark 1916, 1917, 1918
AIA is credited with setting up the Société Atchia Frères, reconstructing the first mosque at Rose Hill following the historic cyclone of 1892, and constructing the first ice factory and saw mill since the 1920s, with technological innovations in use of wind-energy and pre-fabricated concrete.
Angie was crowned Miss Cyclone in 2007 in honor of the historic roller coaster The Coney Island Cyclone.
Some of these errors have existed since the database's creation during NASA's Apollo Program, where it was used to help produce probabilities of tropical cyclone-induced winds in critical areas such as Cape Kennedy (now Cape Canaveral).
MacArthur selected the 158th Regimental Combat Team, primarily units from the Arizona National Guard, United States Army—commanded by Major General Edwin D. Patrick—to assault the island in Operation Cyclone, from 2 July.
Upon leaving military service he became an attorney and the General Counsel of Curtiss-Wright Corporation, the aviation company that had manufactured the P-40 Warhawk fighter and the Cyclone B-17 engines during World War II.
After the cyclone a temporary thatched roof boat house was built in 1861, on the banks of the Hooghly near Chand pal Ghat, the Regatta course was 1 mile from Fort Point to Shalimar or from Shalimar to Botanical Gardens.
The Carolina Cyclone is a roller coaster located at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina and Fort Mill, South Carolina.
Hurricane Carrie, the strongest tropical cyclone of the 1957 Atlantic hurricane season
In August of 2013, a play named "The Black Cyclone" was put on at the Malabar Farm State Park in Lucas, Ohio.
In 1960, after a severe cyclone, the Greek ship M D Alpine was stranded on the shores of Sitakunda, Chittagong.
Do not get this Iowa State machine confused with the Atanasoff–Berry Computer of the late 1930s- Neither John Vincent Atanasoff nor Clifford Berry worked on this machine.
Cyclone Kesiny struck Madagascar during a period of political strife after the Malagasy presidential election in 2001.
The Regional Specialized Meteorological Center in Nadi, Fiji uses 10-minute sustained winds for its tropical cyclone tracking information, while the Joint Typhoon Warning Center uses 1-minute sustained winds.
Hurricane Gustav – thought to have produced the highest wind gust in a tropical cyclone at 340 km/h (211 mph)
Chevron Australia said a tanker due to arrive on 18 April was asked to delay its arrival till 22 April because of the cyclone.
Tropical Cyclone Yasi moved across Vanuatu's northern Torba Province, with winds reaching up to 95 km/h (60 mph).
She carries no weapons preferring to take those from her enemies in the midst of combat, she wears a uniform made from a polymer fabric developed by the CSIRO that is impervious to small arms fire but does not restrict movement.
The Dvorak technique (developed between 1969 and 1984 by Vernon Dvorak) is a widely used system to estimate tropical cyclone intensity (which includes tropical depression, tropical storm, and hurricane/typhoon/intense tropical cyclone intensities) based solely on visible and infrared satellite images.
While engaged in this work, the ill-fated La Plata, carrying cable from the Siemens AG company to Montevideo, sank in a cyclone off Ushant with the loss of nearly all her crew.
After a long career in lower and some games in the Seleccion Argentina U20 debut in the first of the "Cyclone" on 4 July 2009 to Argentinos Juniors.
The 1903 cyclone wrought considerable damage, however, and caused the death of 377 people, including 261 from the island of Hao.
Lee "CYCLONE" Shone is part of the official Gumball 3000 Team and has his own profile page on the new Gumball 3000 website.
The original XB-33 design was to be powered by the R-3350, the redesigned XB-33A was to use Wright R-2600 engines.
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:Prototype medium bomber powered by four 1,800 hp (1,343 kW) R-2600-15 engines, two cancelled.
Several hours later, the eye of the cyclone made its first landfall in the Philippines at Guiuan, Eastern Samar, without any change in intensity; if verified, this would make Haiyan the strongest tropical cyclone to make a landfall on record, surpassing the old record of 305 km/h (190 mph) set by Atlantic Hurricane Camille in 1969.
In the event of local emergencies, such as tropical cyclones, Radio Tonga has been known to stay on the air all night with constant cyclone updates from the Tonga Meteorological Service.
Between 27 and 28 January 2013, the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, had masses of foam wash up on land from ex-tropical cyclone Oswald.
On July 10, 2012 when discussing Sikorsky missing another delivery deadline in June 2012 Defence Minister Peter MacKay called the Cyclone purchase "the worst procurement in the history of Canada".
Dvorak technique, a system to subjectively estimate tropical cyclone intensity
The first film the girls starred in was The Baby Cyclone opposite actor Lew Cody, in 1928.
The game, played at Northern Districts' home ground of Seddon Park in Hamilton, was a charity match for cyclone relief in Bangladesh, and not a full international.
:0000 UTC – The Tropical Cyclone Warning Center in Darwin reports that a tropical low has formed to the northeast of Wyndham.
:1015 UTC - Intense Tropical Cyclone Jokwe makes landfall between Mozambique Island and Angoche City.
:0000 UTC (1000 AEST) – TCWC Brisbane reports that Tropical Low 06U previously located near Mornington Island, has intensified into a Category One Tropical Cyclone and has been named as Cyclone Charlotte.
It uses climatology and persistence to predict future intensity, including the current Julian day, current cyclone intensity, the cyclone's intensity 12 hours ago, the storm's initial latitude and longitude, as well as its zonal (east-west) and meridional (north-south) components of motion.
After the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Gray announced that he was stepping back from the primary authorship of CSU's tropical cyclone probability forecasts, passing the role to Philip J. Klotzbach.
His most successful case was in the early 1990s related to Cyclone Val, a tropical cyclone that devastated American Samoa in December 1991.
Late in 1996, a family booked a holiday in Mauritius, only to find its flight suspended due to a tropical cyclone, and so attempted to cancel its contract with the tour operator and claim damages, on the grounds that the supervening impossibility of performance had brought the contract to an end.
Douglas "Wrong-Way" Corrigan's famous unauthorized transatlantic flight from New York City to Dublin, Ireland on July 17–18, 1938, used a Curtiss Robin with an R-540 built from the parts of two used engines.