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2 unusual facts about Wright R-540


Wright R-540

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.

In 1935, the brothers Al and Fred Key set a new flight endurance record of 653 hours, 34 minutes in the Curtiss Robin J-1 Ole Miss, flying over Meridian, Mississippi, from June 4 to July 1.


‘Etuate Lavulavu

In the November 2010 general election, standing in newly districted single-seat constituency of Vavaʻu 14, he lost his seat to Lisiate ‘Akolo, obtaining 540 votes (22.7%) to ‘Akolo's 665 (28%).

540 kick

The move and a variation of it, the reverse 540, has been present in ballet for quite some time now, and is used commonly by dancers such as Daniil Simkin, Tetsuya Kumakawa and Joseph Phillips.

Alexandre Gomes

Gomes became the first Brazilian World Series of Poker bracelet winner after defeating a field of 2,317 players in the 2008 World Series of Poker $2000 No-Limit Hold'em event, earning $770,540.

Alro Slatina

In September 2005, Alro bought from Balli Group 67% of Alum a Romanian company based in Tulcea that produced 540,000 tonnes of alumina in 2006 for around US$ 9 million.

Arden, New York

The Open Space Institute acquired the building and 540 surrounding acres from Columbia University for $4.5 million in 2007.

Asirgarh Fort

The Huna Kingdom of Sialkot (of Mihir Kula 515–540 AD), destroyed by Yashodharman, was subsequently seized by a new dynasty of kshatriyas called Tak.

Auhah Island

It is 800 metres long by 540 metres wide, which corresponds to an area of about 34 ha, and is located 16 km south-east of Failaka Island, and 41 km from Salmiya on the mainland.

Bannered routes of U.S. Route 71

Becoming Walton Boulevard, US 71B crosses Central Avenue before again meeting I-540/US 71 and terminating at Exit 93.

Brun's theorem

The digits of Brun's constant was used in a bid of $1,902,160,540 in the Nortel patent auction.

Bukhansansillajinheungwangsunsubi

Bukhansansillajinheungwangsunsubi (Monument commemorating the border inspection Mt.Bukhansan by King Jinheung) is one of the monuments built in commemoration of the tours of King Jinheung of Silla (540-575) in Silla Era.

Chittorgarh Fort

The earliest history linked to the Bappa Rawal's fort is that of the Huna Kingdom of Sialkot (of Mihir Kula 515-540 AD) that was destroyed by Yashodharman.

Chuzhou

According to the 2010 Census, the city of Chuzhou has a registered population of 4,533,540 inhabitants, although 7,260,240 persons declared to be permanent residents.

Civil Aviation Flight University of China

In 1989 the college expanded its flight training fleet, importing 20 SOCATA TB-20 aircraft powered by Lycoming 6-cylinder IO-540 engines.

Danny Murtaugh

As a manager, he compiled a 1,115-950 record in 2068 games (.540), second in Pirates history behind only Fred Clarke.

Debub Wollo Zone

On 24 August 2009 Zonal authorities announced that approximately 540 safe water units were constructed during the past Ethiopian budget year at a cost of over 23 million birr, while another 878 units were repaired.

Dodge Chicago Plant

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.

Froben Christopher of Zimmern

In the winter 1of 540/41 but they continued their studies in Tours, as the cost of living in Angers had become too high.

Garry Bush

His second-place finish in the $3,000 Pot Limit Hold'em tournament at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) earned him $139,540 at the end of a lengthy event that included Ram "Crazy Horse" Vaswani and Phil Hellmuth Jr.

Hinglajgarh

The Huna Kingdom of Sialkot (of Mihir Kula 515-540 AD), destroyed by Yashodharman, was subsequently seized by a new dynasty of kshatriyas called Tak or Taxaka.

Howard DGA-8

DGA-8 - version with Wright R-760 engine (18 built, 1 impressed by USAAF as UC-70C)

JNR dismissal lawsuit

On December 5, 2006, at the Tokyo District Court, more than 500 Kokuro members, the union itself, and relatives of workers who died since the privatization planned to launch a 30 million yen damages lawsuit over the refusal to rehire the workers, making a total of 540 plaintiffs suing the Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency.

KNOE

KMLB, a radio station (540 AM) licensed to Monroe, Louisiana, United States, which held the call sign KNOE from 1944 to March 2008

Latin Psalters

St. Benedict of Nursia around the year 540 wrote a scheme for use in his monastery.

Martin XB-33 Super Marauder

The original XB-33 design was to be powered by the R-3350, the redesigned XB-33A was to use Wright R-2600 engines.

:Prototype medium bomber powered by four 1,800 hp (1,343 kW) R-2600-15 engines, two cancelled.

Naval Facilities Engineering Command

In 1981 Secretary of the Navy John Lehman embarked upon a major program of shipbuilding to increase the fleet from 540 ships to 600 ships by the middle of the decade.

Proper motion

Currently, the nearby star with the largest true velocity (relative to the Sun) is Wolf 424 which moves at 555 km/s (or 1/540 of the speed of light).

Ramada

The Ramada hotels and restaurants were sold for $540 million to New World Development Company and the gaming business which included the Tropicana Las Vegas, Tropicana Atlantic City, and Ramada Express in Laughlin, Nevada, were spun off to a new company called Aztar Corporation.

Scottsdale, Tasmania

Scottsdale is served by television stations ABC TV, SBS, Southern Cross Tasmania, WIN Television, TDT and radio stations 7SD 540 kHz and Sea FM 99.7 MHz, and Launceston newspaper The Examiner and local newspaper The North-East Advertiser.

SGI Visual Workstation

The SGI 320 and 540 models shipped with the groundbreaking and stylistically matched 1600SW LCD display, using an OpenLDI display connector that required an accessory flat panel adapter.

Soil Bank Program

The Soil Bank Program is a federal program (authorized by the Soil Bank Act, P.L. 84-540, Title I) of the late 1950s and early 1960s that paid farmers to retire land from production for 10 years.

Stigmatellin

This association raises the midpoint potential of the iron-sulfur cluster from 290 to 540 mV and restricts movement of the cytoplasmic domain of the Rieske protein.

Tender Son – The Frankenstein Project

It received 150 million HUF (€540,000) in support from the Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary and 145,000 Euro from the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung in Germany.

The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs

Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - May 25, 1935 – 540 feet - off Guy Bush - first roof shot at Forbes - hit house across Bouquet St - third homer of the day, final homer of his career.

Thomas Cook

With the opening of the extended Midland Counties Railway, he arranged to take a group of 540 temperance campaigners from Leicester Campbell Street station to a rally in Loughborough, eleven miles away.

Traxxas

The Villain is powered by the same air-cooled (with the Villain IV/Villain EX water cooling accessory kit still available) "Stinger" 20 turn 540 sized brushed motors as the Villain IV.

It is powered by one water-cooled "Stinger" 20 turn 540 sized brushed motor and an air-cooled (with heat sink) Nautica 8.4 volt ESC.

U.S. Route 17 in Florida

Descending as it passes the Chain O' Lakes Sports Complex, SR 540 leaves US 17 at Cypress Gardens Boulevard to continue eastward, but this intersection is also for Southwest Avenue R, which also leads to Winter Haven Station.

Viranşehir

During the next two centuries, it was an important location in the Roman/Byzantine Near East, playing a crucial role in the Roman–Persian Wars of the 6th century as the seat of the dux Mesopotamiae (363–540).

Wright R-760

The U.S. Navy used it as the powerplant for several biplane primary trainers, including the Consolidated NY, the Curtiss N2C Fledgling, and the Naval Aircraft Factory N3N Canary.

WZTI

On January 22, 2008, Good Karma Broadcasting, owner of WAUK, purchased Jackson-based religious station WRRD-AM (540) from Salem Communications, and moved WAUK's sports talk format to the full-time signal on February 12, casting doubt on the nighttime simulcast agreement with WMCS.


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