movies. An early exponent was Ormer Locklear, who was killed performing a dive on film. Charles Lindbergh began his aviation career as a wing walker.[citation...
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The West Wing is an American political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1999, to...
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positions are typically associated with right-wing politics. Early communists used the term "right-wing" in reference to conservatives, placing the conservatives...
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Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition...
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Right-wing populism, also called national populism and right populism, is a political ideology that combines right-wing politics with populist rhetoric...
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A delta wing is a wing shaped in the form of a triangle. It is named for its similarity in shape to the Greek uppercase letter delta (Δ). Although long...
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born August 2, 1986) is a Japanese voice actor. He is affiliated with Early Wing. Ōsaka is the middle child of three siblings. He played on a baseball...
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Monoplane (redirect from Parasol wing)
highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing configuration and is the simplest to build. However, during the early years of flight, these advantages were...
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flying wing is a tailless fixed-wing aircraft that has no definite fuselage, with its crew, payload, fuel, and equipment housed inside the main wing structure...
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Wing Chun (Cantonese) or Yong Chun (Mandarin) (Chinese: 詠春 or 咏春, lit. "singing spring") is a concept-based martial art, a form of Southern Chinese kung...
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The wing configuration or planform of a fixed-wing aircraft (including both gliders and powered aeroplanes) is its arrangement of lifting and related surfaces...
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flown since the pioneer days of aviation. Wing sweep at high speeds was first investigated in Germany as early as 1935 by Albert Betz and Adolph Busemann...
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Wing foiling or wing surfing or winging is a wind propelled water sport that developed from kitesurfing, windsurfing and surfing. The sailor, standing...
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The 552d Air Control Wing is an operational wing of the United States Air Force. It has been based at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, since July 1976...
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square wing in March 1951. Selling the Flexi-kite as a toy helped to finance their work and publicize the design. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, U...
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A fixed-wing aircraft is a heavier-than-air aircraft, such as an airplane, which is capable of flight using aerodynamic lift. Fixed-wing aircraft are distinct...
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Wing Commander is a media franchise consisting of space combat simulation video games from Origin Systems, Inc., an animated television series, a feature...
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Wing warping was an early system for lateral (roll) control of a fixed-wing aircraft or kite. The technique, used and patented by the Wright brothers...
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was 16,547 at the 2020 census. This city is named for early 19th-century Dakota Sioux chief Red Wing. The federal government established a Mdewakanton Sioux...
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fighters of the Galactic Republic (BTL-B, fully paneled & early/stock version of the Y-wing), Rebel Alliance (BTL-A4, the stripped-down and heavily modified...
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Right-wing terrorism, hard right terrorism, extreme right terrorism or far-right terrorism is terrorism that is motivated by a variety of different right-wing...
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The rank of wing commander was introduced in August 1919 and has been used continuously since then. In the early years of the RAF, a wing commander commanded...
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Yusuke Shirai (section Early life)
Yūsuke, born January 18, 1986) is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Early Wing. Some roles he played include Haruna Wakazato in The Idolmaster SideM...
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A carrier air wing (abbreviated CVW) is an operational naval aviation organization composed of several aircraft squadrons and detachments of various types...
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The West Wing of the White House houses the formal office for the president of the United States. The West Wing contains the Oval Office, the Cabinet Room...
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the experimental Mercedes-Benz C111 of the early 1970s, the best-known examples of road-cars with gull-wing doors are the Bricklin SV-1 from the 1970s...
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Rotorcraft (redirect from Rotary-wing)
A rotary-wing aircraft, rotorwing aircraft or rotorcraft is a heavier-than-air aircraft with rotary wings that spin around a vertical mast to generate...
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Green Wing is a British sitcom set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital. It was created by the same team behind the sketch show Smack the Pony – Channel...
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Airplane (redirect from Powered fixed-wing aircraft)
fixed-wing flying machine with separate systems for lift, propulsion, and control. Cayley was building and flying models of fixed-wing aircraft as early as...
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and stiffness, and was used successfully during the early days of supersonic aircraft. Any wing with straight leading and trailing edges and with differing...
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