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The 550 meters Crystal Palace pneumatic railway was exhibited at the Crystal Palace in 1864.
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Average oceanic lithosphere is typically 100 kilometers thick; its thickness is a function of its age: as time passes, it conductively cools and subjacent cooling mantle is added to its base.
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To construct the prototype, Alcorn purchased a $75 Hitachi black-and-white television set from a local store, placed it into a 4 feet wooden cabinet, and soldered the wires into boards to create the necessary circuitry.
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These small units are recommended for use with 30 meters or more of head, in order to generate significant power levels.
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Pioneer 11 (also known as Pioneer G) is a 259 kilograms robotic space probe launched by NASA on April 6, 1973 to study the asteroid belt, the environment around Jupiter and Saturn, solar wind and cosmic rays.
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They are positioned on two three-rod trusses, each 3 meters in length and 120 degrees apart.
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During its closest approach, on December 2, it passed 42828 kilometers above the cloud tops.
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Pioneer 11 imaged and nearly collided with one of Saturn's small moons, passing at a distance of no more than 4000 kilometers .
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quote=The discrepancy caused by the anomaly amounts to about 248500 miles , or roughly the distance between Earth and the Moon.
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For example, a pendulum clock moved from sea level to 4000 feet will lose 16 seconds per day.
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Pretoria is situated approximately 55 kilometers north-northeast of Johannesburg in the northeast of South Africa, in a transitional belt between the plateau of the Highveld to the south and the lower-lying Bushveld to the north.
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It lies at an altitude of about 1339 meters above sea level, in a warm, sheltered, fertile valley, surrounded by the hills of the Magaliesberg range.
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The average annual temperature is 18 °C .
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GHCN climate data, 30-year climate average 1979–2008, Goddard Institute of Space Studies This is rather high, considering the city's relatively high altitude of about 1339 meters , and is due mainly to its sheltered valley position, which acts as a heat trap and cuts it off from cool southerly and south-easterly air ma...
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During a nationwide heatwave in November 2011, Pretoria experienced temperatures that reached 39 °C , unusual for that time of the year.
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Similar record-breaking extreme heat events also occurred in January 2013, when Pretoria experienced temperatures exceeding 37 °C on several days.
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Pretoria reached a new record high of 44 Coulomb on 7 January 2016.
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In 1977, Kelsey explained that he and Saville drew up the specification using the word interceptor as a way to bypass the inflexible Army Air Corps requirement for pursuit aircraft to carry no more than 500 pounds of armament including ammunition, as well as the restriction of single-seat aircraft to one engine.
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Kelsey was looking for a minimum of 1000 pounds of armament.
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A Lightning could reliably hit targets at any range up to 1000 yards , whereas the wing guns of other fighters were optimized for a specific range.
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The Lockheed design incorporated tricycle undercarriage and a bubble canopy, and featured two 1000 horsepower turbosupercharged 12-cylinder Allison V-1710 engines fitted with counter-rotating propellers to eliminate the effect of engine torque, with the turbochargers positioned behind the engines, the exhaust side of t...
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It was also the first military airplane to fly faster than 400 mph in level flight.
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The tail unit of the aircraft failed at about 3500 feet during the high-speed dive recovery; Virden was killed in the subsequent crash.
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The A&AEE example was unarmed, lacked turbochargers and restricted to 300 mph ; though the undercarriage was praised and flight on one engine described as comfortable.
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The RP-322 was a fairly fast aircraft below 16000 feet and well-behaved as a trainer.
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The fighter's long range made it well-suited to the campaign over the almost 1200 miles -long island chain, and it was flown there for the rest of the war.
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On 9 August 1942, two P-38Es of the 343rd Fighter Group, 11th Air Force, at the end of a 1000 miles long-range patrol, happened upon a pair of Japanese Kawanishi H6K "Mavis" flying boats and destroyed them, making them the first Japanese aircraft to be shot down by Lightnings.
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performed by 46 82nd Fighter Group P-38s, each carrying one 1000 pounds bomb, would yield more accurate results.
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All of 1st Fighter Group and a few aircraft in 82nd Fighter Group were to fly cover, and all fighters were to strafe targets of opportunity on the return trip; a distance of some 1255 miles , including a circuitous outward route made in an attempt to achieve surprise.
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The fight took place below 300 feet in a narrow valley.
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The 370th's group commander Howard F. Nichols and a squadron of his P-38 Lightnings attacked Field Marshal Günther von Kluge's headquarters in July 1944; Nichols himself skipped a 500 pounds bomb through the front door. ''
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While the P-38 could not out-turn the A6M Zero and most other Japanese fighters when flying below 200 mph , its superior speed coupled with a good rate of climb meant that it could use energy tactics, making multiple high-speed passes at its target.
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In the second half of 1944, the P-38L pilots out of Dutch New Guinea were flying 950 miles , fighting for fifteen minutes and returning to base.
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After 210 P-38Es were built, they were followed, starting in February 1942, by the P-38F, which incorporated racks inboard of the engines for fuel tanks or a total of 2000 pounds of bombs.
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The P-38F was followed in June 1942 by the P-38G, using more powerful Allisons of 1400 horsepower each and equipped with a better radio.
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A dozen of the planned P-38G production were set aside to serve as prototypes for what would become the P-38J with further uprated Allison V-1710F-17 engines ( 1425 horsepower each) in redesigned booms which featured chin-mounted intercoolers in place of the original system in the leading edge of the wings and more eff...
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As the P-38H, 600 of these stop-gap Lightnings with an improved 20 mm cannon and a bomb capacity of 3200 pounds were produced on one line beginning in May 1943 while the near-definitive P-38J began production on the second line in August 1943.
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With these improvements, a USAAF pilot reported a dive speed of almost 600 mph , although the indicated air speed was later corrected for compressibility error, and the actual dive speed was lower.
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With Lockheed's AAF representative as a passenger and the maneuvering flap deployed to offset Army Hot Day conditions, the old "K-Mule" still climbed to 45000 feet .
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It reached 20000 feet in five minutes flat; this with a coat of camouflage paint which added weight and drag.
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Seven high velocity aircraft rockets (HVARs) on pylons beneath each wing, and later, five rockets on each wing on "Christmas tree" launch racks which added 1365 pounds to the aircraft.
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Such pathfinders would lead a formation of medium and heavy bombers; or of other P-38s, each loaded with two 2000 pounds bombs; the entire formation releasing their ordinance when the pathfinder did.
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This arrangement was removed and a final third version was fabricated that had the booms returned to normal length but the tail raised 33 inches .
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Although new to the aircraft, Lindbergh was instrumental in extending the range of the P-38 through improved throttle settings, or engine-leaning techniques, notably by reducing engine speed to 1,600 rpm, setting the carburetors for auto-lean and flying at 185 mph indicated airspeed which reduced fuel consumption to 70...
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2× 2000 pounds bombs or drop tanks; or
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2× 1000 pounds bombs or drop tanks, plus either
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It has an area of 25402 sqkm and a population of 4,377,941 as of 30 November 2017.
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More than half of its 700 sqkm of vineyards are registered with DOC designations.
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They were forced to climb nearly 4000 feet through the jungles of the Western Ghat mountain ranges.
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It was 210 miles from Mangalore to Seringapatam, and the journey took six weeks.
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The Great Allegheny Passage and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Towpath connect the city directly to downtown Washington, D.C. (some 335 miles away) with a continuous bike/running trail.
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Downtown Pittsburgh has 30 skyscrapers, nine of which top 500 feet .
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Pittsburgh falls within the borders of the Northeastern United States as defined by multiple US Government agencies, but the Pittsburgh Combined Statistical Area extends into both the Southern United States (West Virginia) and the Midwestern United States (Ohio), with the borders of the three regions meeting 30 miles f...
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The warmest month of the year in Pittsburgh is July, with a 24-hour average of 72 °F .
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Conditions are often humid, and combined with highs reaching 90 °F on an average 9.5 days a year, a considerable heat index arises.
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Due to elevation and location on the windward side of the Appalachian Mountains, 100 °F + readings are very rare, and were last seen on July 15, 1995.
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The warmest daily minimum at the current observation location, Pittsburgh Int'l, is only 77 °F on July 23, 2010, and July 16, 1980.
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The largest, Frick Park, provides 664 acres of woodland park with extensive hiking and biking trails throughout steep valleys and wooded slopes.
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Chatham University, a liberal arts college that was founded as a woman's college but became fully coeducational in 2015, is in the Shadyside neighborhood, but also maintains a 388 acres Eden Hall Farm campus in the North Hills.
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Arnold Palmer Regional Airport also provides limited commercial passenger service and is 44 miles east of Pittsburgh.
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As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,394 and an area of 33 sqkm .
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Hans Lindenmayr's valve laboratory near Friedland moved to a castle near the village of Leutenberg, 10 kilometers south of Saalfeld near the Bavarian border.
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The 17 miles long route leads to Wadebridge and on to Wenford Bridge and Bodmin, and is used by an estimated 400,000 users each year generating an income of approximately £3 million a year.
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182 vehicles took the start of the inaugural rally in Paris, with 74 surviving the 10000 kilometers trip to the Senegalese capital of Dakar.
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The car class is made up of vehicles weighing less than 3500 kilograms , which are subdivided into several categories.
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The Truck class (Group T4), first run as a separate category in 1980, is made up of vehicles weighing more than 3500 kilograms .
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They were declared missing on 12 January; after a large-scale search, a Lockheed L100 search plane from the Algerian military spotted their white Peugeot 504 some 50 kilometers off course.
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In 2006, 41-year-old Australian KTM motorcyclist Andy Caldecott, in his third time in the Dakar, died on 9 January as a result of neck injuries sustained in a crash approximately 250 kilometers into stage 9, between Nouakchott and Kiffa, only a few kilometers (miles) from the location where Meoni had his fatal wreck th...
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The French-based Amaury Sport Organisation in charge of the 6000 kilometers rally said in a statement that they had been advised by the French government to cancel the race, which had been due to begin on 5 January 2008 from Lisbon.
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Omar Osama bin Laden, the son of Osama bin Laden, attracted news coverage in 2008 by promoting himself as an "ambassador of peace" and proposing a 3000 miles horse race across North Africa as a replacement to the Dakar Rally, with sponsors' money going to support child victims of war, saying ''"I heard the rally was st...
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9 feet
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This is the upper portion of John Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse, which was originally built on the Eddystone Rocks, located 14 miles to the south, in 1759.
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The breakwater is around 1700 yards long, stands in around 11 metres / 36 feet of water and was built by John Rennie and Joseph Whidbey starting in 1812.
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The long summer (May through September) is characterized by intense heat and alternating dryness and humidity, with temperatures reaching 50 °C .
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Casey & Vine (1991), p. 69 Rainfall is negligible, averaging 100 mm per year, confined to the winter months, and falling in brief, sometimes heavy storms that often flood the small ravines and the usually dry wadis.
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Qatar's northwest coast is fewer than 30 kilometers from the main islands of Bahrain, while the small Hawar Islands of Bahrain are only 1.4 km (0.8 mi) off that coast.
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31590 sqkm as determined by bilateral agreements, or the median line
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Lying about 90 kilometers east of Doha, it serves as a storage area and loading terminal for oil from the surrounding offshore fields.
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CIA World Factbook In 2003, 129 sqkm of land was irrigated.
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In 1993 it was linked to other towns and development sites by a system of about 1000 kilometers of paved roads.
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Doha's international airport has an approximately 4500 meters main runway, capable of receiving all kinds of aircraft.
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The treaty resulted in the Native Americans ceding 6 million acres of land to the United States in exchange for a much smaller reservation elsewhere.
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For 14 miles between LeClaire, Iowa, and Rock Island, the Mississippi River flowed across a series of finger-like rock projections protruding from either bank.
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The Quad Cities is located at the confluence of the Rock and Mississippi rivers, approximately 140 miles west of Chicago, and form the largest metropolitan area along the Mississippi River between Minneapolis–Saint Paul and the St. Louis metropolitan area.
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The Quarter – a 90 acres site in East Moline, alongside the Mississippi River, featuring shops, restaurants, condominiums, boat docks, sports and interpretive centers, and a working lighthouse, currently under development. (
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Western Illinois University-Quad Cities – A satellite campus district in Moline being constructed along the riverfront at the former site of the 60000 sqft John Deere Technical Site.
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The closest station is about 50 miles away in Galesburg, Illinois.
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The airport is marketed as a regional alternative to the larger airports in Chicago, nearly 200 miles away.
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The transformation from α-quartz to β-quartz takes place abruptly at 573 Coulomb .
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Measurements taken by Cyril Hazard and John Bolton during one of the occultations using the Parkes Radio Telescope allowed Maarten Schmidt to find a visible counterpart to the radio source and obtain an optical spectrum using the 200 inches Hale Telescope on Mount Palomar.
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These seats feature all-aisle access in a 1-2-1 configuration and a fully flat 198 cms bed.
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The seats rotate, facing forward for takeoff, but rotating to the side for dining and sleeping, with 83.5 in seat pitch (extending to a 212 cm fully flat bed) and a width of 29 inches .
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Each suite has a 43 cms widescreen HD monitor with 1,000 AVOD programs.
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Later versions of the Skybed have an 80 inches pitch, and lie fully horizontal.
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Skybed seats on Boeing 747s feature a 26 cms touchscreen monitor with 400 AVOD programs.
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On the Airbus A380, 64 fully flat Skybed seats are available with 80 inches seat pitch (converting to a 200 cm long bed).
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On 7 October 2008, an Airbus A330-300 registered VH-QPA, travelling from Singapore Changi Airport to Perth, Western Australia as Qantas Flight 72, suffered a rapid loss of altitude in two sudden uncommanded pitch down manoeuvres causing serious injuries while 80 nautical miles from Learmonth.
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The latest reported record distance for quantum teleportation is 1400 kilometers by the group of Jian-Wei Pan using the Micius satellite for space-based quantum teleportation.
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There has been a recent record set (As of 2015 September lc=y ) using superconducting nanowire detectors that reached the distance of 102 kilometers over optical fiber.
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For material systems, the record distance is 21 meters .
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