• Airplane scattering (or most often reflection) refers to the reflection of a radio signal by the metal structure of a passing aircraft. It is observed...
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  • terrain. The most common back-scatter applications are air-traffic radar, bistatic forward-scatter guided-missile and airplane-detecting trip-wire radar,...
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    Ocean color (category Scattering, absorption and radiative transfer (optics))
    particles in ocean water preferentially scatter blue light more than light of other colors. Blue light scattering by water and tiny particles happens even...
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  • Scramble band (redirect from Scatter band)
    A scramble band - also known as a scatter band - is a particular type of field-performing marching band with distinct characteristics that set it apart...
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  • Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás became the first person in history to hijack an airplane[dubious – discuss] in a desperate plot to flee persecution at the hands...
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    simple physical scattering mechanisms (surface scattering, double-bounce scattering, and volume scattering). The advantage of this scattering model is that...
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    chamber. Pyramidal RAM attenuates signal by two effects: scattering and absorption. Scattering can occur both coherently, when reflected waves are in-phase...
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    (78 m/s2) lateral. The airframe broke apart at 60,000 feet (18 km) altitude, scattering the X-15's wreckage across 50 square miles (130 km2). On 8 May 2004, a...
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    the youngest certified airplane mechanic. He was a pilot in the Spanish Civil War in the Yankee Squadron. He died in an airplane crash in 1940, while training...
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    included an August 2006 performance by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and the scattering of Richie Havens's ashes in August 2013. In late 2016 New York's State...
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  • particles scatter white sunlight as it passes through the Earth's atmosphere. This is done by a combination of Rayleigh scattering and Mie scattering. As a...
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  • shooting civilians in the Mosul, Iraq, area, a U.S. laser-guided bomb scatters the executioners. Bulgaria Air confirmed the purchase of at least four...
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    death rate with attacks on aircraft, and the ability to use a hijacked airplane as a lethal weapon may provide an alluring target for terrorism (such as...
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    moment when the light scattering takes hold in the atmosphere. In the shaded part of the atmosphere, the secondary scattering takes place. As twilight...
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    property of the target's reflectivity. Radar cross-section is used to detect airplanes in a wide variation of ranges. For example, a stealth aircraft (which...
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    contact with the ground, the massive fuselage had begun to break up, scattering components from the underfloor galley, the cargo compartments, and the...
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    Atmospheric optics (category Scattering, absorption and radiative transfer (optics))
    that scatter different colors at different angles. Halos, afterglows, coronas, polar stratospheric clouds, and sun dogs. These are from scattering, or...
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    album in 20 years, "Burn Baby", on February 28, 2019. The full album, Scatter the Rats, was released on May 3, 2019, through Joan Jett's record label...
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    of 1890s design. Her captain, Edward Fegen VC, signalled the convoy to scatter, and attacked the enemy. Jervis Bay was hopelessly outranged and outgunned...
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  • These photons in turn produce high energy free electrons by Compton scattering at altitudes between (roughly) 20 and 40 km. These electrons are then...
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    relatively weak. For instance, billiard balls on a billiard table would scatter and recoil with the same speeds and energies after a break shot on the...
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    short signal duration and targeting of individual vehicles minimizes scatter of the LIDAR signal to following or adjacent vehicles. Modifying the vehicle...
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    Oneal, and Julius Gerber. During the campaign the Socialists had four airplanes drop socialist literature over Toledo, Ohio. The wife of Charles Edward...
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  • streak of light was from a missile that had struck TWA 800, causing the airplane to explode.: 262  Consequently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...
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  • Dragon Radar is. Bulma realizes that she had left the Dragon Radar in her airplane. She manages to inform Trunks about it. Goku senses Trunks has accomplished...
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    scattering Deng Yingchao's ashes in 1992. The "New Haimen" ship exhibition area displays the "New Haimen" ship which undertook the task of scattering...
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    on the Zodiac signs and protect the balance of the universe. They soon scatter themselves across the universe as the Princess Star Color Pens sought by...
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    rescue personnel confirmed that all aboard were killed. From the lack of scatter of the wreckage, the aircraft is believed to have impacted at a vertical...
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  • Denver to Honolulu suffered a contained engine failure after takeoff, scattering debris over residential neighborhoods below. The pilots used the remaining...
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    Atmospheric gases scatter blue light more than other wavelengths, creating a blue halo when seen from space....
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