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    Spinnaker (redirect from Cruising chute)
    The sail may be flown on a spinnaker pole or with the tack attached to the bow of the boat. Asymmetrical spinnakers resembling large jibs and flown from...
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    chutes with kill lines that have not been cocked during packing or where the kill line has shrunk through use and reduces the drag of the pilot chute...
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    Some ships with well decks, such as the Soviet Ivan Rogov class, also have bow doors to enable them to deliver vehicles directly onto a beach (like a tank...
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    The Fall (French: La Chute) is a philosophical novel by Albert Camus. First published in 1956, it is his last complete work of fiction. Set in Amsterdam...
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    The Vyne (category Chute family)
    Trust". Country Life. 185 (19): 78–81. Chute, Francis. (2005) The Chutes of the Vyne: An Illustrated History of the Chute Family and Their 300 Year Connection...
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  • commissioned by Gap Inc. founders Donald and Doris F. Fisher, depicts a partial bow and piece of an arrow. Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's Cupid's Span...
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    escape. After testing in mid-1943, the ERCO ball turret became the preferred bow installation in the US Navy's Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator and PB4Y-2 Privateer...
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  • side. The two propellers are above the keel. Two bow thrusters are sited just behind the bulbous bow. With likely limited speed requirements, the fuel...
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    Ryan Bow (February 3, 1979) is a retired American mixed martial arts fighter from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Bow is a coach, author, and entrepreneur. He...
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  • Retrieved 2020-11-29. "Parc des Chutes-de-la-Chaudière". Visitez Lévis. Retrieved 30 November 2016. "GeoNames Query—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière in the Lèvis region:...
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    the boundary (bow shock) of a magnetosphere. The name "bow shock" comes from the example of a bow wave, the detached shock formed at the bow (front) of a...
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    radio set for communications. He also fires the left bow machine gun. The right one is operated by a bow machine gun gunner, who sits to the right of the...
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  • Watson with a lead on evidence to bring him to justice. 154 13 "Their Last Bow" Christine Moore Robert Doherty August 15, 2019 (2019-08-15) 2.82 In the...
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    to the buoy. The gravity chutes were troughs allowing cargo to be sent down a cliff to a ship. Besides bagged goods, the chutes were used to load other...
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  • Trike and 'Chute Directory, Kitplanes, Volume 17, Number 2, February 2000, page 53. Kitplanes Acquisition Company. ISSN 0891-1851 "Sea-Bow". Internet...
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    chute on the main canopy. Reserves, on the other hand, do not retain their pilot chutes after deployment. The reserve deployment bag and pilot chute are...
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  • Tockar as Makuta, the main antagonist & Kongu, a Matoran operating the chutes in Metru Nui. Plans were in place before the release of the first Bionicle...
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    a metallic bang was heard, presumably caused by a heavy wave hitting the bow doors around 01:00, when the ship was on the outskirts of the Turku archipelago...
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    is crossed again by Ontario Highway 28, passes over Egan Chute and Fram Chute at Egan Chutes Provincial Park, and briefly reenters Hastings Highlands...
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    unit". Janes.com. Retrieved 17 October 2023. "First-Generation Hawk Trainer Bows Out of UK Military Service". "Typhoon, C-130J and Puma retirements, FCAS...
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    in a separate service tower, also containing laundry rooms and rubbish chutes, and joined to the residential tower by eight walkways. The maisonettes...
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    clearing the aircraft, the large extraction chutes and pallets were cut away and small triangular chutes stabilized the large warhead until impact. A...
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    to a bow pulpit, and can be known by other names, like "cruising chute" or a gennaker. In this duty, it is often paired with a Spinnaker chute for simpler...
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  • Falls Fossil Falls Harmony Falls Helmet Falls Kerkeslin Falls Les Sept Chutes Michael Falls Moresby Falls Murchison Falls Nairn Falls Peach Creek Falls...
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    Chaloner Chute I (died 14 April 1659) of The Vyne, Sherborne St John, Hampshire, was an English lawyer, Member of Parliament and Speaker of the House...
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    area overlooking Lake Michigan, a small library, a refuse room (with trash chutes emptying here), offices for the managers of the residential condominium...
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    stability and displacement in water and prevents the water from flooding the bow of the tank. The driver switches the periscope to a swimming periscope that...
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    designs had a flat front, often with a lowerable ramp, rather than a normal bow. This made them difficult to control and very uncomfortable in rough seas...
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    aircraft store separation. In incompressible fluids (liquids) such as water, a bow wake is created when a watercraft moves through the medium; as the medium...
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    These toilets were Western-style, albeit a primitive form, with vertical chutes, via which waste was disposed of into cesspits or street drains. Drainage...
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