X-Nico

3 unusual facts about flare


Electronic warfare

An Electronic Warfare Self Protection (EWSP) is a suite of countermeasure systems fitted primarily to aircraft for the purpose of protecting the aircraft from weapons fire and can include among others: DIRCM (protects against IR missiles), Infrared countermeasures (protects against IR missiles), Chaff (protects against RADAR guided missiles), Flare (protects against IR missiles).

Flare

Maritime flares and other pyrotechnics are often used by Ultras at football & and other sporting events to increase atmosphere, even though it is illegal to do so in most countries.

Calcium phosphide is often used in naval flares, as in contact with water it liberates phosphine which self-ignites in contact with air; it is often used together with calcium carbide which releases acetylene.


2006 National League Championship Series

Left fielder Endy Chávez also made an excellent diving play on a flare hit by Ronnie Belliard.

Bijie Martin

Both woman shared an affinity for fashion and bohemian living with a devotion and flare for their Southern backgrounds (Martin's father a Kentuckian born to a prominent Virginia family whom descended from William Thornton (Virginia burgess), William Thornton (immigrant) and Christopher Branch.

Bucaniidae

The family lived from the Lower Ordovician to the Devonian and have shells in which the apertural margins tend to flare.

Cat gap

The La Garita Caldera is a large volcanic caldera located in the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado, United States, and is one of a number of calderas that formed during a massive ignimbrite flare-up in Colorado, Utah, and Nevada during the Oligocene Epoch.

Cheng Chao-an

When Cheng’s cousin Hsu Chien (James Tien) goes missing, tensions flare at the ice factory, and a fight breaks out between the Chinese workers and the Thai management.

Flare Publications

Jupiter and Mercury: An A to Z by Paul Wright, published by Flare Publications, 2006 ISBN 978-1-903353-00-4

Shorthand of the Soul: the Quotable Horoscope by David Hayward, published by Flare Publications, 1999 ISBN 978-0-9530261-2-8

The Contemporary Astrologer's Handbook by Sue Tompkins, published by Flare Publications, 2007 ISBN 978-1-903353-02-8

Flying Pigeon

Like the Ford Model T, they are only available in one colour, black, except for the flare of vanilla at the fender tips.

Gerald Peary

Peary has also contributed to numerous magazines, including Film Comment, Cineaste, Sight & Sound, the Boston Review, Flare, and Maclean's.

Golden Axe: Beast Rider

The game was revealed to feature the return of Tyris Flare, the amazon warrior from the first installment of the series.

Hydraulic machinery

Flare fittings, are metal to metal compression seals deformed with a cone nut and pressed into a flare mating.

Kathak

The design is akin to a chudidaar kameez, but is somewhat tighter fitting above the waist, and the 'skirt' portion explicitly cut on the round to enhance the flare of the lower half during spins.

Robin Witt

Witt's notable productions include Enda Walsh's The New Electric Ballroom at A Red Orchid Theatre, Dennis Kelly's Love and Money, Simon Stephens' Motortown, Pornography and Harper Regan at Steep Theatre, as well as Terence Rattigan's Flare Path (2013 Jeff Nominations, Director and Production) and Edna Ferber and George Kaufman's Stage Door (2011 Jeff Nominations, Director and Production) with the Griffin Theatre.

Seven and the Sun

In 2007, Band member's Seven Williams (born Keith Volpone) & Wally Brandt reformed as Whiskey Falls with more of a country/rock flare (a la The Eagles) along with Buck Johnson and Damon Johnson (no relation).

Show of force

As an example, most air "attacks" during OEF and OIF have been simple shows of force where jet aircraft drop flares only while making loud, low-level passes.

Son of Superman

When a solar flare erupts, Jon Kent manifests superpowers and learns from his mother, Lois Lane, that his father, the missing Daily Planet reporter Clark Kent, was secretly the superhero Superman.

South Atlantic Raiders

Billy at that point attacks the camp wearing a Ned Kelly-style suit of armour and firing flare guns at the Argentinians, while Rollo and Mary stage an attack by British forces.

Stellar chemistry

Research published in 2010 studied the effects of a strong stellar flare on the atmospheric chemistry of an Earth-like planet orbiting an M dwarf star, specifically, the M dwarf AD Leonis.

Stroh violin

Pinky Weitzman plays the Stroh violin for various New York experimental ensembles, including her own project (Not Waving but Drowning), as well as Flare, LD & the New Criticism, and as part of the onstage ensemble for Stephin Merritt's My Life as a Fairy Tale.

The Incorrigible Dukane

The New Zealand Truth described it as a "thoroughly amusing filmatisation" and that it had "some exciting scenes during the industrial flare-up and plenty of dramatic and humorous happenings".

Tracor

Tracor had great success in its later years designing and producing flare and chaff cartridges and their dispenser systems for military aircraft in defense against infrared- and radar-targeting missiles.

United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station

Complete catalogs require much study of binary/multiple, flare, oblate, starspot-laden stars, and astrometrically extended objects, in addition to the classically 'simple', spheroidally shaped single stars.

Zeiss Sonnar

Compared to Planar designs the Sonnars had more aberrations, but with fewer glass-to-air surfaces it had better contrast and less flare.


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