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The technology was not reliable at first; in 1976, Carlos Pace crashed at 180 mph at the Österreichring circuit after heat build-up in the brakes boiled the brake fluid, leaving him with no way of stopping the car.
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For the 1981 season the FIA introduced a 6 cms minimum ride height for the cars, intended to slow them in corners by limiting the downforce created by aerodynamic ground effect.
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They also desired, but did not require, a range of 2000 miles and a speed of .
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The B-17's armament consisted of five .30 caliber (7.62 mm) machine guns, with a payload up to 4800 pounds of bombs on two racks in the bomb bay behind the cockpit.
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On 20 August 1935, the prototype flew from Seattle to Wright Field in nine hours and three minutes with an average cruising speed of 252 mph , much faster than the competition.
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In one of their first missions, three B-17s, directed by lead navigator Lieutenant Curtis LeMay, were sent by General Andrews to "intercept" and photograph the Italian ocean liner Rex 610 miles off the Atlantic coast.
610
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The B-17E was an extensive revision of the Model 299 design: The fuselage was extended by 10 feet ; a much larger rear fuselage, vertical tailfin, rudder, and horizontal stabilizer were added; a gunner's position was added in the new tail; the nose (especially the bombardier's well-framed, 10-panel nose glazing) remain...
10
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Additional armament included an additional dorsal turret in the radio room, a remotely operated and fired Bendix-built "chin turret" directly below the bombardier's accommodation, and twin 0.5 inches guns in each of the waist positions.
0
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All of these modifications made the YB-40 well over 10000 pounds heavier than a fully loaded B-17F. The YB-40s with their numerous heavy modifications had trouble keeping up with the lighter bombers once they had dropped their bombs, so the project was abandoned and finally phased out in July 1943.
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Late in World War II, at least 25 B-17s were fitted with radio controls and television cameras, loaded with 20000 pounds of high explosives and dubbed BQ-7 "Aphrodite missiles" for Operation Aphrodite.
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Blast damage was caused over a radius of 5 miles .
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The RAF entered World War II with no heavy bomber of its own in service; the biggest available were long-range medium bombers such as the Vickers Wellington, which could carry up to 4500 pounds of bombs.
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Kelly's B-17C AAF S/N 40-2045 (19th BG / 30th BS) crashed about 6 miles from Clark Field after he held the burning Fortress steady long enough for the surviving crew to bail out.
6
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On 2 March 1943, six B-17s of the 64th Squadron flying at 10000 feet attacked a major Japanese troop convoy off New Guinea, using skip bombing to sink ship SS Kyokusei Maru 2 , which carried 1,200 army troops, and damage two other transports, Teiyo Maru and Nojima.
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On 3 March 1943, 13 B-17s flying at 7000 feet bombed the convoy, forcing the convoy to disperse and reducing the concentration of their anti-aircraft defenses.
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313 The remaining seven transports and three of the eight destroyers were then sunk by a combination of low level strafing runs by Royal Australian Air Force Beaufighters, and skip bombing by USAAF North American B-25 Mitchells at 100 feet , while B-17s claimed five hits from higher altitudes.
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On the morning of 4 March 1943, a B-17 sank the destroyer Asashio with a 500 pounds bomb while she was picking up survivors from Arashio.
500
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Pilots of average ability hit the bombers with only about two percent of the rounds they fired, so to obtain 20 hits, the average pilot had to fire one thousand 20 mm rounds at a bomber.
20
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Early versions of the Fw 190, one of the best German interceptor fighters, were equipped with two 20 mm MG FF cannons, which carried only 500 rounds when belt-fed (normally using 60-round drum magazines in earlier installations), and later with the better Mauser MG 151/20 cannons, which had a longer effective range tha...
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By 1944, a further upgrade to Rheinmetall-Borsig's 30 mm MK 108 cannons mounted either in the wing, or in underwing, conformal mount gun pods, was made for the Sturmbock Focke-Wulfs as either the /R2 or /R8 field modification kits, enabling aircraft to bring a bomber down with just a few hits.
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The Luftwaffe also fitted heavy-calibre Bordkanone-series 37, 50 and even 75 mm cannon as anti-bomber weapons on twin-engine aircraft such as the special Ju 88P fighters, as well as one model of the Me 410 Hornisse but these measures did not have much effect on the American strategic bomber offensive.
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With its usual nose-mounted armament of four MK 108 cannons, and with some examples later equipped with the R4M rocket, launched from underwing racks, it could fire from outside the range of the bombers' 0.5 inches defensive guns and bring an aircraft down with one hit, as both the MK 108's shells and the R4M's warhead...
0
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He also broke the west-to-east coast record on the return trip, averaging 245 mph in 11 hours 1 minute.
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Covering 12000 miles they returned on 27 February, with seven aircraft setting off on a flight to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, three days later.
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In a well-publicized mission on 12 May of the same year, three B-17s "intercepted" and took photographs of the Italian ocean liner SS Rex 610 miles off the Atlantic coast.
610
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Trieste is a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe which reached a record depth of about 10911 meters in the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench near Guam in the Pacific.
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To withstand the enormous pressure of 1.25 metric tons per cm2 (110 MPa) at the bottom of Challenger Deep, the sphere's walls were 12 cms thick (it was overdesigned to withstand considerably more than the rated pressure).
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NGC: On the sea floor To the Depths in Trieste, University of Delaware College of Marine Studies After passing 9000 meters , one of the outer Plexiglas window panes cracked, shaking the entire vessel.
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Invertebrates such as sea cucumbers, some of which potentially could be mistaken for flatfish, have been confirmed at depths of 10000 meters and more.
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In August 1963, Trieste found the wreck off the coast of New England, 8400 feet below the surface.
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It is said by William the Breton, chaplain to Philip at the battle, that the soldiers stood in line in a space of 40,000 steps ( 15 hectares ), which leaves very little clearance and predisposes to hand-to-hand fighting.
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Photos to scale except adult, which is about 2 cms long.
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One group of paratroopers took up position at a low wall about 80 yards in front of a rubble barricade that stretched across Rossville Street.
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It is served by two airports: George Best Belfast City Airport and Belfast International Airport 15 miles west of the city.
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The area of Belfast Local Government District is 42 sqmi .
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The highest temperature recorded at any official weather station in the Belfast area was 30 Coulomb at Shaws Bridge on 12 July 1983.
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Belfast holds the record for Northern Ireland's warmest night time minimum, 19 Coulomb at Whitehouse on 14 August 2001.
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The city gets significant precipitation (greater than 1mm) on 157 days in an average year with an average annual rainfall of 846 mm , less than areas of northern England or most of Scotland, but higher than Dublin or the south-east coast of Ireland.
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The absolute maximum temperature at the weather station at Stormont is 29 Coulomb , set during July 1983.
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The lowest temperature to occur in recent years was -8.8 °C on 22 December 2010.
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The minimum temperature at Aldergrove was -14.9 Coulomb , during December 2010.
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Finally, the Titanic Quarter covers 0.75 sqkm of reclaimed land adjacent to Belfast Harbour, formerly known as Queen's Island.
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The dome is 173 feet high and figures above the door state "Hibernia encouraging and promoting the Commerce and Arts of the City".
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Windsor House, 262 feet high, has 23 floors and is the second tallest building (as distinct from structure) in Ireland.
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It has an area of 128 acres of meadows, woodland and gardens and features a Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Garden, a Japanese garden, a walled garden, and the Golden Crown Fountain commissioned in 2002 as part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations.
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Belfast has approximately 1300 kilometers of sewers, which are currently being replaced in a project costing over £100 million and due for completion in 2009.
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Belfast is a relatively car-dependent city by European standards, with an extensive road network including the 22 miles M2 and M22 motorway route.
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The facility comprises four stages of 16000 sqft .
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The Jordanstown campus, just 7 miles from Belfast city centre concentrates on engineering, health and social science.
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The Coleraine campus, about 55 miles from Belfast city centre concentrates on a broad range of subjects.
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The Magee campus, about 70 miles from Belfast city centre has many teaching strengths; including business, computing, creative technologies, nursing, Irish language and literature, social sciences, law, psychology, peace and conflict studies and the performing arts.
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The largest documented single crystals of biotite were approximately 7 meters square sheets found in Iveland, Norway.
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After July 1954 the car was fitted with an engine, having now a larger bore of 94.62 mm (3.7 in) with a total displacement of 4887 cc .
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The solitary enteropneusts, commonly known as "acorn worms", have long proboscises and worm-like bodies with up to 200 branchial slits, are up to 2 meters long, and burrow though seafloor sediments.
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Pterobranchs are colonial animals, often less than 1.0 mm long individually, whose dwellings are interconnected.
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The couple decided to settle in Switzerland and, in January 1953, the family moved into their permanent home: Manoir de Ban, a 14 hectares estate overlooking Lake Geneva in Corsier-sur-Vevey.
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The central area of the city consists of relatively low-lying flat ground formed by moraines from the last ice age while the hilly areas to the north and west frequently rise to 50 meters above sea level.
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The slopes of Valby and Brønshøj reach heights of over 30 meters , divided by valleys running from the northeast to the southwest.
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During the last ice age, glaciers eroded the surface leaving a layer of moraines up to 15 meters thick.
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It is 700 meters long and has both lifeguards and freshwater showers on the beach.
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Exceptional weather conditions can bring as much as 50 cm of snow to Copenhagen in a 24-hour period during the winter months while summer temperatures have been known to rise to heights of 33 °C .
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Fælledparken at 58 hectares is the largest park in Copenhagen.
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The lesser known Vestre Kirkegaard is the largest cemetery in Denmark ( 54 hectares ) and offers a maze of dense groves, open lawns, winding paths, hedges, overgrown tombs, monuments, tree-lined avenues, lakes and other garden features.
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Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, built by Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen for the airline Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) between 1956 and 1960 was once the tallest hotel in Denmark with a height of 69 meters and the city's only skyscraper until 1969.
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Round Christiansborg Open Water Swim Race is a 2 kilometers open water swimming competition taking place each year in late August.
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This amateur event is combined with a 10 kilometers Danish championship.
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In 2009 the event included a 10 kilometers FINA World Cup competition in the morning.
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On March 28, 2020, the 2 kilometers Nordhavn extension of the Harbour Line (M4) opened.
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The city's bicycle paths are extensive and well used, boasting 400 kilometers of cycle lanes not shared with cars or pedestrians, and sometimes have their own signal systems – giving the cyclists a lead of a couple of seconds to accelerate.
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Canada is home to the world's northernmost settlement, Canadian Forces Station Alert, on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island – latitude 82.5°N – which lies 817 kilometers from the North Pole.
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Canada has over 2,000,000 lakes—563 greater than 100 sqkm —which is more than any other country, containing much of the world's fresh water.
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Canada covers 9984670 sqkm and a panoply of various geoclimatic regions.
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Canada also encompasses vast maritime terrain, with the world's longest coastline of 243042 kilometers .
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The size is roughly ~ 1900000 sqkm .
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The eruption produced a 22 kilometers lava flow, and, according to Nisga'a legend, blocked the flow of the Nass River.
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According to Statistics Canada, 72.0 percent of the population is concentrated within 150 kilometers of the nation's southern border with the United States, 70.0% live south of the 49th parallel, and over 60 percent of the population lives along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River between Windsor, Ontario and Quebec...
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The furthest straight-line distance that can be travelled to Canadian points of land is between the southwest tip of Kluane National Park and Reserve (next to Mount Saint Elias) and Cripple Cove, NL (near Cape Race) at a distance of 3005 nautical miles .
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As of 2008, 626700 kilometers were unpaved.
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The 7821 kilometers highway was completed in 1962 at a total expenditure of $1.4 billion.
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Inland waterways comprise 3000 kilometers , including the St. Lawrence Seaway.
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82 kilometers / 685 Represents number of stops, per TTC website 2013 operating statistics.
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390 kilometers GO by the numbers Retrieved on 2009-01-17.
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69 kilometers West Coast Express: Stations and Parking Information Retrieved 9 December 2009
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Agricultural commodities were perishable, and trade centres were within 50 kilometers .
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Rural areas centred around villages, and they were approximately 10 kilometers apart.
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People generally lived within 5 miles of the downtown core thus the train could be used for inter-city travel and the tram for commuting.
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The two nations have the world's longest shared border ( 8891 kilometers ), and also have significant interoperability within the defense sphere.
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The oldest archaeological finds are from the Pubenza and El Totumo sites in the Magdalena Valley 100 kilometers southwest of Bogotá.
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At 2600 meters , Bogotá is the highest city of its size in the world.
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Protected areas and the "National Park System" cover an area of about 14268224 hectares and account for 12.77% of the Colombian territory.
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Above 4000 meters , where temperatures are below freezing, the climate is glacial, a zone of permanent snow and ice.
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Reserves (resguardos) established for indigenous peoples occupy 30571640 hectares (27% of the country's total) and are inhabited by more than 800,000 people.
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It grew to 6 feet long, with anatomical features similar to modern mackerel sharks.
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This combination helped with its speed and agility which was useful when trying to outswim its probable predator, the heavily armoured 10 meters long placoderm fish Dunkleosteus.
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It grew to 2 meters in length.
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Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 200) The paleobioloy Database Ptychodus entry accessed on 8/23/09 Ptychodus mortoni (pictured) was about 32 feet long and was unearthed in Kansas, United States.
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It looked much like a stocky version of the great white shark, but was much larger with fossil lengths reaching 20 meters .
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He returned from his six-month-long, over 2000 kilometers expedition in October, having gathered and observed many plants, birds and rocks.
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According to the UN atlas, 44% of people live within 150 kilometers of the sea.
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Another subgenre of country music grew out of hardcore honky tonk with elements of Western swing and originated 112 miles north-northwest of Los Angeles in Bakersfield, California, where many "Okies" and other Dust Bowl migrants had settled.
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