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Topic: Air (disambiguation)


  
  Air and Space Gudie
Rockets must be used when there is no other substance (land, water, or air) or force (gravity, magnetism, light) that a vehicle may employ for propulsion, such as in space.
Rocket thrust is due to the rocket engine, which propels the rocket by expelling the exhaust at high speed.
The accuracy problem was mostly solved in 1844 when William Hale modified the rocket design so that thrust was slightly vectored to cause the rocket to spin along its axis of travel like a bullet.
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  Air Force One - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Air Force One is the air traffic control call sign of any U.S. Air Force aircraft carrying the President of the United States (it is a common misconception that "Air Force One" refers to a single airplane).
Image:Air Force One (film).jpg Air Force One is a prominent symbol of the presidency and its power; after the White House, it is probably the most recognized Presidential institution.
Air Force One has been featured in other films (Independence Day, Superman, The Sum of All Fears, and Escape from New York which also featured the unconfirmable escape pod), books (The President's Plane is Missing), and TV series (The West Wing, Commander in Chief, 24 and NCIS).
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  Air - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Compressed air is often used in scuba diving as a shallow water breathing gas and to inflate buoyancy devices.
Air is one of the four classical elements, and is associated with many other concepts, such as the sword suit in the tarot.
Air is considered to be both hot and wet, and according to Plato is associated with the octahedron.
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 Air - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Compressed air is often used in scuba diving as a shallow water breathing gas and to inflate
Air is a Japanese band fronted by Koji Kurumatani, formerly of
Air with variations, BWV 991, is a baroque
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 Encyclopedia: Air Malta
Air Malta began service on April 1, 1974, with two wet leased Boeing 720s that initially served Rome, Tripoli, London, Manchester, Frankfurt and Paris from Malta's airport.
In February 2005 Air Malta announced an increase in scheduled destinations to the UK and France, to Nantes, Newcastle and Toulouse.
Air Malta flight KM 830 bound for Istanbul with 90 passengers on board was hijacked 20 minutes after take off and diverted to Cologne.
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 Bird - Biocrawler definition:Bird - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
the anterior air sacs (interclavicular, cervicals, and anterior thoracics),
the posterior air sacs (posterior thoracics and abdominals).
Air flows through the honeycombed walls of the parabronchi and into air capillaries, where oxygen and carbon-dioxide are traded with cross-flowing blood capillaries by diffusion.
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 Bird   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Birds are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates characterized primarily by feathers, forelimbs modified as wings, and hollow bones.
These are the anterior air sacs (interclavicular, cervicals, and anterior thoracics), the lungs, and the posterior air sacs (posterior thoracics & abdominals).
First inhalation: air flows through the trachea and bronchi into the posterior air sacs.
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 AIRLINE ALTERNATE GENIE SEARCH ENGINE, INC
Air service was seen as a supplement to rail service in the American transportation network.
France began an air mail service to Morocco in 1919 that was bought out in 1927, renamed Aéropostale, and injected with capital to become a major international carrier.
The peak of German air travel came in the mid-1930s, when Nazi propaganda ministers approved the start of commercial zeppelin service: the big airships were a symbol of industrial might, but the fact that they used flammable hydrogen gas raised safety concerns that culminated with the Hindenburg disaster of 1937.
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 Air (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Air de cour, secular vocal music in France in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period
Air, a flying roller coaster at Alton Towers theme park in the United Kingdom
AIR, a three letter acronym of various meanings.
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 managing indoor air quality, managing editor, managing director, indoor(a), indoor air quality, indoor air quality at ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
This mixture of gases is commonly known as air.
This heating warms air masses which then rise to release latent heat as sensible managing heat that further editor uplifts air the air mass.
Indoor the editor subject-object in air question air might be a concrete and functional (e.G. Aristotelian) value to be learnt and at applied florida (a air and air b), or a psychic (e.G. Platonic) ideal to be apprehended and represented (c).
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 air liner / Top air liner information
Many air liner in the Allied countries were flush from lease contracts to the military, and foresaw a future explosive demand for civil air transport, for both passengers and cargo.
Their commercial viability also represented a serious cost threat to employees at legacy air liner, as they set the standard for wage rates in the industry that were a fraction of the prevailing wage.
This allows air liner to overbook their flights enough to fill the aircraft while accounting for "no-shows," but not enough (in most cases) to force paying passengers off the aircraft for lack of seats.
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 air lines / Top air lines information
Many air lines in the Allied countries were flush from lease contracts to the military, and foresaw a future explosive demand for civil air transport, for both passengers and cargo.
Their commercial viability also represented a serious cost threat to employees at legacy air lines, as they set the standard for wage rates in the industry that were a fraction of the prevailing wage.
This allows air lines to overbook their flights enough to fill the aircraft while accounting for "no-shows," but not enough (in most cases) to force paying passengers off the aircraft for lack of seats.
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 Air   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Air is one of the four Classical elements.
Air is a Japanese band fronted by Koji Kurumatani, formerly of Baku.
Air with variations, BWV 991, is a baroque clavier work composed by J.S.Bach.
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 Gulf War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Air superiority in the theatre was quickly achieved; coalition air forces flew sorties largely unchallenged.
The air campaign targeted military targets like the Iraqi Republican Guard in Kuwait, air defense systems, Scud missile launchers, air forces and airfields, weapons research facilities, and naval forces.
When the air war began Canada's planes were integrated into the coalition force and provided air cover and attacked ground targets.
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 Rubbermaid Cooler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Heat in the air is used to evaporate water.
Heat in the air evaporates water from the pads which are constantly re-dampened to continue the cooling process.
Air should only be allowed to cycle once through the system or cooling efficiency will fail.
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 Cyclones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The warm, moist air is less dense, therefore it overruns the more dense cold air at and behind the cold front.
The dry, arid air of the Sahara desert is not conducive to the formation of extratropical cyclones.
Above the surface of the earth, the air temperature near the center of the storm is colder than the air to the north, east, south, and west of it.
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 Far East Air Force (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
The U.S. Far East Air Force was formed from the Philippine Army Air Corps on August 4, 1941.
RAF Far East Air Force was the command organisation that controlled all Royal Air Force assets in the east of Asia.
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 Articles - Air Force One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
One of the most dramatic episodes aboard Air Force One happened on September 11, 2001, when it flew President George W. Bush from Sarasota, Florida, where he was interrupted at an education event because of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
Air Force One is a prominent symbol of the presidency and its power; after the White House, it is probably the most recognized Presidential institution.
Air Force One has been featured in other films (Independence Day, Superman, and Escape from New York, which also featured the non-existent escape pod), books (The President's Plane is Missing), and TV series (The West Wing, 24 and NCIS).
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 Pen - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The ball point pen was invented in 1938 by the Hungarian journalist Laszlo Biro.
It was originally invented for the British RAF, as problems occurredwith fountain pens due to the low air pressure.
According to urban legend, NASAspent millions of dollars during the 1960s to develop a space pen,which could work in the absence of gravity and air pressure, and in extreme temperatures (The usual, comedic punch-line is "TheSoviets used a 50¢ pencil").
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 Airport   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Air safety is an important concern in the operation of an airport, and almost every airfield includes equipment and procedures for handling emergency situations.
Commercial airfields include one or more emergency vehicles and their crew that are specially equipped for dealing with airfield accidents, crew and passenger extractions, and the hazards of highly flammable airplane fuel.
The traffic generated by airports both in the air and on the surface can be a major source of aviation noise and air pollution which may interrupt nearby residents' sleep or, in extreme cases, be harmful to their health.
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 Concorde Online Research :: Information about Concorde   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
During the supersonic cruise, although the outside air temperature was typically -60 °C, air friction would heat the external skin at the front of the plane to around +120 °C making the windows warm to the touch and producing a noticeable temperature gradient along the length of the cabin.
Air France made its final Concorde landing in the United States in New York City from Paris on May 30, 2003.
Due to the heat generated by the compression of the air as Concorde traveled supersonically, the fuselage would extend by as much as thirty centimetres, the most obvious manifestation of this being a gap that would open up on the flight deck between the Flight engineer 's console and the bulkhead.
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 Airline :: Web Articles ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Bilateral agreements are based on the "freedoms of the air," a group of generalized traffic rights ranging from the freedom to overfly a country to the freedom to provide domestic flights within a country (a very rarely granted right known as cabotage).
Most agreements permit airlines to fly from their home country to designated airports in the other country: some also extend the freedom to provide continuing service to a third country, or to another destination in the other country while carrying passengers from overseas.
Some argue that it would be far better for the industry as a whole if a wave of actual closures were to reduce the number of "undead" airlines competing with healthy airlines while being artificially protected from creditors via bankruptcy law.
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 FREEDOM AIR - GoGoSearch.com
::Disambiguation: Freedom Air (Guam) is an airline of the same name which operates in Guam.
The airline was established in 1995 as a response to the commencement of discount services between Australia and New Zealand by Kiwi Airlines and started operations on 8 December 1995 with a single Boeing 757 aircraft.
By 2004, Freedom Air's fleet had expanded to five Boeing 737-300 aircraft and it was providing direct non-stop services to the Australian cities Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sydney, and Melbourne from their base in Hamilton as well as Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Palmerston North.
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 Tropical Cyclone Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The pressures recorded at the centers of tropical cyclones are among the lowest that occur on Earth's surface at sea level.
Warm core: Tropical cyclones are characterized and driven by the release of large amounts of latent heat of condensation as moist air is carried upwards and its water vapor condenses.
These originate from air that has released its moisture and is expelled at high altitude through a chimney effect of the storm engine.
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 Eye Cream -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
For example, It would be foolish to have Paul Simon page made into a disambiguation page just becasue their is a congressman from Illinois with the same name.
We should avoid the use of parenthetical disambiguation whenever possible (especially for the most widely known use of a word).
Generally, the cheaper the ice-cream, the cheaper the ingredients, and the more air is incorporated (since ice cream is sold by volume, it's economically advantageous for producers to reduce the density of the product).
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 Kamikaze   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Air attacks were the predominant and best-known aspect of a wider use of — or plans for — suicide attacks by Japanese personnel, including soldiers carrying explosives, and boat crews.
The Imperial Japanese Navy's First Air Fleet, based at Manila was assigned the task of assisting the Japanese ships which would attempt to destroy Allied forces in Leyte Gulf.
That worked against the very purpose of using expendable pilots and even encouraging capable pilots to bail out before impact was ineffective with the loss of vital personnel who often mistimed when to exit and either failed their objective and/or were killed as a result.
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 Bomber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
A bomber is a military aircraft designed to attack ground targets, primarily by dropping bombs.
Ground-attack (or close air support) aircraft are designed to loiter over a battlefield and attack tactical targets, such as tanks, troop concentrations, etc. Examples: Stuka, Il-2 Shturmovik, A-10 Warthog, Sukhoi Su-25.
Conversely, many fighter aircraft, such as the F-16, are often used as 'bomb trucks,' despite being designed for aerial combat.
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 air - OneLook Dictionary Search
Example: "She was humming an air from Beethoven"
Phrases that include air: air pump, air conditioning, air bladder, air mass, air gun, more...
Words similar to air: tune, aura, broadcast, melody, publicize, vent, aired, airing, airless, airlessness, airwave, atmosphere, aviation, bare, beam, breeze, line, open, outdoors, out-of-doors, more...
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 Lightning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
As for all air electric discharge the electrons from the cosmic ray strike are accelerated by the electric fields, they ionise air molecules which then collide with making the air conductive and starting a lightning strike.
During the strike, successive portions of air become conductive as the electrons and positive ions of air molecules are pulled away from each other and forced to flow in opposite directions (stepped channels called step leaders).
To spontaneously ionise air and conduct electricity across it, an electric field of approximately 2500 kilovolts per metre is required.
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 Sound - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The speed of this propagation depends on the type, temperature and pressure of the medium.
Under normal conditions, however, because air is nearly a perfect gas, it does not depend on the air pressure.
In dry air at 20 °C (68 °F) the speed of sound is approximately 343 m/s.
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 Bristol - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
In 2003 the two airlines using Concorde (British Airways and Air France) and the company supplying spares and support (Airbus) made the decision to cease flying the aircraft and to retire them to locations (mostly museums) around the world.
Another major aeronautical company in the city is Cameron Balloons, the world's largest manufacturer of hot air balloons.
Annually, in August, the city is host to the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, one of Europe's largest hot air balloon events.
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