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unusual facts about spar



2002 Bristow Helicopters Sikorsky S-76A crash

After the accident, the AAIB and the helicopter's manufacturer, Stratford, Connecticut-based Sikorsky Aircraft, reached the opinion that the electrical energy imparted by the lightning strike in 1999 exploited an anomaly that was built into the blade at manufacture and damaged the spar.

Alouette 1

The mechanical frame and the deployable STEM antennas were made by the Special Products and Applied Research (SPAR) division of de Havilland Canada (DHC) in Downsview, Ontario, in a building which many years later (until 2012) housed the Canadian Air and Space Museum.

Binnaz Uslu

In 2006 at the 13th SPAR European Cross Country Championships in San Giorgio su Legnano, Italy she won the gold medal in the under 23 section.

Bruntwood

Customers in Bruntwood's retail space include Marks and Spencer, Tesco, Krispy Kreme, WHSmith, Paddy Power, Sainsbury's, Starbucks, Spar as well as a number of independent retailers throughout the portfolio including in Afflecks.

Charles Ulvsson, Lord of Tofta

His and his father's Coat of Arms was a chevron ('spar') wherefore this family is regarded as one of numerous medieval Scandinavian families retrospectively named Sparre - probably this family was the most prominent of them all.

Conversation games

The Dozens – A popular game originating from Hip-hop culture where players verbally spar in an attempt to entertainingly insult one another.

Freedom Lite SS-11 Skywatch

The wing is built with an aluminum structure, with an I-beam spar and stamped ribs.

Gripping Sailor's hitch

The Gripping Sailor's Hitch(*) is a secure, jam-proof hitch used to tie one rope to another, or a rope to a pole, boom, spar, etc., when the pull is lengthwise along the object.

I riddarnas spår

I riddarnas spår (in Swedish: In Footprints of the Knights) is a non-fictional book by Norwegian-Swedish fantasy author Margit Sandemo, which deals with De svarta riddarna that was at the time newest of the series of novels by her.

Iceland spar

Thomas Pynchon refers to the doubling property of Iceland spar in his 2006 novel Against the Day.

Ilmor X3

Illien used his world championship winning F1 engine experience to design the machine's V4 powerplant, with Suter, who has previously designed Kawasaki's MotoGP chassis, in charge of the twin-spar aluminum frame.

Kazenambo Kazenambo

In January 2011,Windhoek police were called to separate Kazenambo and the manager of Hochland Park’s Spar Supermarket when the Minister confronted the manager regarding his alleged mistreatment of black customers.

Lieutenant Sheba

Daughter of the legendary Commander Cain, Sheba first appeared as the leader of the Silver Spar Viper squadron from the Battlestar Pegasus in the two part episode "The Living Legend."

Rolladen-Schneider LS3

Lemke elected a relatively thick profile developed in 1967 by University of Stuttgart Professor Franz Xavier Wortmann, the FX 67-K-170, which offered the structural economy made possible by a tall spar - an important consideration as glass fibre was still the only affordable reinforcement material - as well as good performance for the time.

Schultz ABC

The ABC was a development of the earlier short-span Midwest MU-1, it had a two-spar two-strut wooden wing and a fabric covered steel tube fuselage and tail.

Sherwood, Nottingham

High street shops such as Boots the Chemist, Lloyds Pharmacy, Wilkinson, SPAR and The Co-operative are interspersed with charity shops, including Oxfam and Cancer Research UK and restaurants, including those serving Chinese, Japanese, Indian and Italian cuisine.

SpaceShaft

More about the combined effects of wind loads and upthrust is discussed later, under the section of "Heave and roll behavior" which would describe the similar of a spar-buoy on a waterway and on the section "Wind force and Coriolis", likewise for bending and deflection on the structure.

Spar torpedo

Lieutenant Cushing employed a spar torpedo designed by John Lay.

Spar torpedoes were also massively used by the Russian forces under vice-admiral Stepan Makarov during the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–1878.

Splash dam

To give some idea of the scale of the log drives, Pennsylvania's Pine Creek, the largest tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River, had produced rafts of pine spars for decades, ending in 1865.

Stocksfield

Amenities in Stocksfield include two post offices, an Esso petrol station, a Spar self-service store, a newsagent, two hairdressers, a butcher, a first school, a convenience store, a doctor's surgery and a vetinary surgery.

Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay

The Sundial Bridge is a cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge, similar to Calatrava's earlier design of the Puente del Alamillo in Seville, Spain (1992).

Sunninghill, Gauteng

Primary shopping centres in Sunninghill include Chilli Lane (comprising better known retailers such as Woolworths and Pick 'n Pay and a Virgin Active gym); The Core (comprising offices and restaurant retailers); and Sunninghill Shopping Centre (comprising speciality restaurants and better known retailers Spar and Woolworths).

The Movie Booth

The kiosks are located at stores throughout the UK and Ireland including Spar, Costcutter, Tesco and Nisa.

Thorngumbald

The village shopping centre has five shops: a small Boots chemist, a newsagents, family butcher, fish and chip shop and a Spar Convenience store.

Threemilestone

In Threemilestone itself there is a central area of shops and facilities which include a Spar shop, baker, fish & chip shop, chemist, doctor's surgery, launderette,

Warsaw Eagles

In 2004 the club purchased professional sports gear for the first time to be able to spar with the very first opponent on the Polish arena - Fireballs Wielkopolska.


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