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2 unusual facts about Wright R-760


Howard DGA-8

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

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.


4 Minutes

Four-minute mile, the running of a mile (exactly 1,609.344 metres, 1,760 yards) in less than four minutes

Alpine skiing at the 1936 Winter Olympics – Women's combined

The start was under the Kreuzjoch in 1580 metres height and the finish was at the station at the bottom of the Kreuzeckbahn in 760 metres height.

Battle of Hereford

The Battle of Hereford was fought in 760 at Hereford (in what is now Herefordshire, England).

Battle of Kansas

With its new wing design, new type of remote controlled armament, pressurized crew stations, and powerful new Wright R-3350 radial engines (with new, 16 ft (4.88 m) diameter, slow-turning Hamilton Standard propellers), the B-29 project was unprecedented in Aviation history: from inception, to drawing board and mass production took three years, at a time when such a design should have taken five years just to become a prototype.

Bregowine

One records that he protested at the loss of a church at Cookham that was confiscated by King Cynewulf of Wessex sometime after 760.

Chung Shyang II UAV

Some industry sources have been stating that an armed variant would include a 800kg (1,760 lb) payload, possibly an early-warning radar, a few AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missiles and perhaps the self-made Hsiung Feng IIE cruise missile.

Danube Banovina

It then follows the eastern boundaries of the districts of Morava, Lepenica, Kragujevac, and Gruža, as far as the Dulenski Crni Vrh (hill 919), turning towards the Gledic Mountains and thence over the Krečane (hill 760) and Brzak (hill 822) up to the boundary of the Drina Banovina on Mount Kotlenik, near Crni Vrh (hill 768).

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.

Foreign relations of the Comoros

Comoros has requested a similar program for Grande Comore and Anjouan, total population 760,000, and Li said that Beijing has agreed in principle.

Heeresfeldbahn

For example, in the 1870s, when the Imperial and Royal Military Railway built a supply line from Bosnian Brod to Zenica in Bosnia was quickly expanded into a fully operational narrow gauge railway for general use, thus founding the extensive railway network built to the so-called Bosnian gauge of 760 mm.

History of Papua New Guinea

Valued at A$760 million, the program was to tackle crime and corruption in PNG by sending 200 Australian police to Port Moresby and installing 40 Australian officials within the national bureaucracy.

Libertador General San Martín Bridge

It runs between Puerto Unzué, near Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos Province, Argentina, and Fray Bentos, Río Negro Department, Uruguay, with a total length of 5,966 meters (3.7 mi) (4,220 meters (13,845 ft) in Argentine jurisdiction and 1,146 meters (3,760 ft) in Uruguayan territory).

M18 Hellcat

In December 1941, the Ordnance Corps issued a requirement for the design of a fast tank destroyer using a Torsion bar suspension, the Wright/Continental R-975 engine, and a 37 mm gun.

Malang

The history of Malang Regency could be revealed through the Dinoyo inscription 760 AD as the primary official document to support the birth of Malang before a new inscription was discovered in 1986, which is so far not yet revealed.

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.

Oslo Opera House

Construction started in 2003 and the completed in 2007, ahead of schedule and 300 million NOK (~US$52 million) under its budget of 4.4 billion NOK (~US$760 million).

Polygonum cognatum

Irano-Turanian Region or Iran-Turan Plant Geography Region element, grows between 760–5600 m on rocky and drier slopes; distribution: Central to Western Asia, Turkey, Caucasia (Georgia), Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Remigius of Rouen

Remigius also accompanied Pippin to Italy in 760 with his two brothers (Bernard and Hieronymus) to mediate between Pope Paul I and Desiderius.

Rud Hud Hudibras

Haggai began his ministry around 520 BC, whilst Amos is said to have prophesied during the reigns of Uzziah of Judah and Jeroboam II, probably around 760 BC.

RWD 9

In January 1934 it was fitted with Czech Walter Bora radial engine (220 hp), and in spring 1934 with newly constructed Polish radial engine GR-760 (290 hp), created by Stanisław Nowkuński.

SCAT Airlines Flight 760

SCAT Airlines Flight 760 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Kokshetau to Almaty, Kazakhstan, that crashed in thick fog near Kyzyltu on 29 January 2013, killing all 16 passengers and 5 crew on board.

Sherwood, Arkansas

KMTL (760 AM) that produces a religious radio format, both serving the Little Rock metro area.

Symbios Logic

In July 1998 Hyundai sold Symbios (then located in Fort Collins, Colorado) to LSI Logic for $760 million cash.

Tang poetry

The "Fields and Gardens Poets Group" (田园诗派) include Meng Haoran (孟浩然, 689 or 691-740), the famous poet and painter Wang Wei (王维, 701-761), Chu Guangxi, (儲光羲, 707-760), Chang Jian (常建), Zu Yong (祖咏), Pei Di (裴迪), Qiwu Qian (綦毋潜), Qiu Wei (丘为), and others.

Wei Chun

Wei Guanzhi (760-821), chancellor during Emperor Xianzong's reign

Winterhaven, California

Telephone service is provided by Winterhaven Telephone Company, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, and wired telephones in the area have numbers following the format (760) 572-xxxx.

WLCC

In 1996 Spanish broadcaster Alfredo Alonso Mega Broadcasting purchased the station for $1.75 million (later renamed Mega Communications) turning the station into a Spanish Tropical format called Mega 760.

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.


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