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	Handbook of Texas Online - STRAKE, GEORGE WILLIAM
		George William Strake, pioneer oilman and philanthropist, was born on November 9, 1894, in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of William George and Anna (Casper) Strake.
		Strake's discovery proved that the Cockfield sand was an oil-producing formation and opened wildcatting in an area fifty miles wide and 500 miles long, from Texas into Louisiana and Mississippi.
		Strake donated $500,000 to the St. Joseph's Hospital Foundation in Houston and thus became a founding benefactor of that institution.
	www.tshaonline.org /handbook/online/articles/SS/fst70.html (803 words)

	Helical Strakes
		Helical strakes are aerodynamic stabilizers which are sometimes used to reduce the forces and deflections of the stack experienced due to vortex shedding.
		Strakes consist of three (3) vanes which can be wrapped in a helical pattern on the upper 1/3 of the stack.
		When strakes are added the drag coefficient of the stack is increased greatly.
	www.mecaenterprises.com /helical_strakes.htm (244 words)

	Two aerodynamic strakes added to Apollo CM
		Two aerodynamic strakes were added to the CM to eliminate the danger of a hypersonic apex-forward trim point on reentry.
		The size of the strakes had to be increased later because of changes in the CM which moved the center of gravity forward and because of the additional ablative material needed to combat the increased heating of the strakes during reentry.
		Removal of the strakes would cause a major redesign to permit the apex cover to be jettisoned in the low angle-of-attack (apex forward) region.
	www.astronautix.com /details/two16210.htm (416 words)

	Waterjet propelled planing hull - Patent 4004542
		The underside of the hull H is also provided with a pair of intermediate, depending strakes 20 and 22, which extend longitudinally from transom 19 to the bow portion 24 of the hull along the major length of the latter.
		The inner surfaces 25 of strakes 16 and 18 and the outer surfaces 26 of strakes 20 and 22 are substantially vertically extending.
		The stabilizing strakes 16 and 18 are mirror images of one another and are seen to taper forwardly and inwardly from transom 19 to the bow portion 24 of the hull.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /4004542.html (1782 words)

	STRAKES
		In summary, a four by four piece of plywood was clamped to the bottom of the spar and leveled.
		I built a four by four sheet of plywood, then clamped the rear onto the spar to hold it flush with the bottom of the spar.
		After cure, the weights are removed and this is how the strake looks before the baggage area skin is completed, and before the top layup.
	mevans28.tripod.com /id17.html (531 words)

	Stop Divine Strake
		Divine Strake was the name of a 700-ton chemical explosives test designed to simulate the blast of a low-yield nuclear weapon on a hardened underground bunker.
		Divine Strake was originally planned for detonation at the Nevada Test Site in June 2006, however a lawsuit filed by the Western Shoshone and several downwinders forced a postponement of the test until 2007.
		If the Divine Strake test was conducted, the radioactive isotopes in the resulting 10,000-foot high dust cloud could have been deposited anywhere in the United States (1).
	www.stopdivinestrake.com (858 words)

	Strakes and Fuel Tanks
		The photos below are arranged chronologically and illustrate the process of fitting the strakes, constructing the wheel wells, setting in the bulkheads and fuel cell baffles.
		The baggage strakes are 4.5" deep at the rear and 5" deep just behind the door.
		View from rear of plane of co-pilot strake fuel vent and Vision Microsystems fuel sender.
	www.rguerra.com /velocity/strakesFuel/strakesFuel.nclk (738 words)

	The Iran-Divine Strake Connection By Andrew Kishner
		The 'other' purpose of Divine Strake, one that I personally never had much belief in, was to conduct a 'dry run' on an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
		Divine Strake, in the eyes of a few defense and other conspiracy theorists, was a dry run to see what will happen when radioactive dust is thrown into the atmosphere.
		The more widely held belief regarding Divine Strake was that it was a military exercise not unlike those that happen in the waterways between countries that aren't getting along.
	countercurrents.org /kishner260608.htm (1071 words)

	Strakes and Canards at Transonic Speeds
		The strakes are small wings placed upstream a main wing, that are used to modify the downstream vortical flow.
		The strakes are one of those examples where the interference can be largely beneficial both from the aeodynamic point of view (lift) and control (effects on rolling and bending moments, see below).
		Vortex formation (and buffeting) on a wing is a direct consequence of the strakes.
	www.aerodyn.org /HighSpeed/strakes.html (148 words)

	This Old Wheel -17th Century Wooden Wheel Technology - Strakes XVII C.
		Prior to the 1700s, the strakes were attached with the same technique, but for heavy vehicles were reinforced with iron strake bands that wrapped around the felloe and strake.
		Note the strake bands (reinforcing bands) on the 'figure 3' wheel are used for both the strake and fellow joints, and are of two types.
		Not to imply that straked wheels for ultra-light carriages could not be thin and graceful as well, as a straked wheel gig on display at the Smithsonian Institution’s American History Museum attests (image to right).
	www.kismeta.com /diGrasse/this_old_wheel.htm (1709 words)

	The "correct" construction of a wooden boat
		The strakes and slits between them shall be dimensioned in such a way, that when the strakes are most swollen, they don't press (=crush) each other but the flexible seal between them is pressed to its thinnest.
		When the strakes are at their narrowest, when they are dry, the flexible seal must still stretch to fill the slit between strakes.
		Strakes shall be narrow to stay put with only one fastener per frame, and to keep the slit changes within the limits of seal elasticity.
	personal.eunet.fi /pp/gsahv/wood/wood6.htm (1344 words)

	Strakes
		The first thing I did was to set up each strake on the mill and centre drill the four hole positions.
		The strake shown here has been countersunk and is now having a slight twist set in to it so that it will lay fairly flat against the wheel rim.
		You will note that each strake is held by one bolt and the strake nearest has a small G-clamp holding the second end.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /corromant/strakes.htm (400 words)

	The Hull (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The bottom inside edge of the strake is chinked with yarn coated in tar (The Vikings used either tar-coated animal fur or manure).
		In the event that a strake is not long enough to reach from bow to stern, a scraf joint is used to join the ends of two strakes together.
		On the inside of the first nine strakes are cleats, a raised wood block with a notch that accommodates the underside of the rib.
	www.hjemkomst-center.com /ship/construction/hull/main.htm (500 words)

	NASA Tech Briefs - ARC11979
		Inflatable nose strakes have been invented to assist in controlling the direction of flight of an airplane, especially a high-performance fighter-type airplane operating at a high angle of attack.
		Hinged, rigid nose strakes controlled by mechanical actuators via linkages have been investigated for use in forebody vortex control for flight control, but they entail a significant disadvantage; the actuators and linkages occupy valuable forebody interior volume that is needed for radar and other instrumentation.
		If the strake on the right or left side of the forebody is inflated, the effect on the vortices is such as to give rise to a net leftward or rightward force, thereby causing the airplane to yaw to the left or right, respectively.
	www.nasatech.com /Briefs/Feb99/ARC11979.html (657 words)

	Stop Divine Strake - ABC4.com
		With the cancellation of The Divine Strake weapons test together we have certainly rediscovered the power of an informed citizenry letting their leaders know how they feel to gain a change in policy for greater public good.
		Divine Strake was a scientific experiment designed to significantly advance the nation's ability to defeat underground facilities that produce and store weapons of mass destruction.
		I believe the risk of exposing another generation of families to radioactive fallout is far too great and is a direct threat to the public's health and well-being.
	www.abc4.com /content/divine_strake/default.aspx (779 words)

	Strake Construction
		Since the strake skin crosses from the center spar onto the wing spar, after mating I shined a high intensity light down between, and marked and cut a line to separate the wing from the strake for removal.
		After the strake tops are on, and the wings are removed, there is a fair amount of finishing work required inside the rear of the strake.
		The strake outboard of the fuel tank is reinforced on both sides with 8 strips of Triaxial cloth 4" wide by 29" long.
	www.velocityxl.com /Strakes.htm (4051 words)

	Pete Ashdown’s Journal » Divine Strake Back on Track
		Now that those pesky elections are out of the way, Divine Strake is ramping up again for execution as early as this spring on the Nevada Test Range.
		My objection to Divine Strake sources not as much from the potential of more lethal toxins being kicked into the atmosphere, but the fact that we’re developing new nuclear weapons at all.
		Divine Strake is a great example of history horrifically repeating itself, within the lifetimes of many harmed by the first testings.
	peteashdown.org /journal/2007/01/02/divine-strake-back-on-track (640 words)

	strake - definition of strake from YourDictionary.com
		upper: The floor folds flat to spread the lower ribs whilst the upper strakes are kept tight to the struts.
		side: The bottom row of strakes on either side of the keel, are called garboard strakes.
		garboard: The bottom row of strakes on either side of the keel, are called garboard strakes.
	www.yourdictionary.com /strake (309 words)

	Divine Strake
		Divine Strake is the government’s latest venture into the realm of broken treaties, state-sponsored terror and the desecration of Mother Earth - a “bunker-busting” bomb that will be detonated this June in the Nevada desert.
		The purpose is to simulate a “low-yield nuclear weapon ground shock” to find the lowest nuclear yield required to destroy the “carefully chosen” targets that “simulate the characteristics of important potential global adversaries” – specifically, Iran’s underground uranium enrichment facilities.
		Force this rogue state to become accountable for their actions – after all, it is us who they are supposed to be answering to.
	www.aztlan.net /divine_strake.htm (964 words)

	the nuclear information project: Divine Strake 2006
		The conventional Divine Strake test scheduled for June 2006 is expected to create a large mushroom cloud, an image associated with atmospheric nuclear tests in the 1950s and early 1960s.
		Divine Strake, moreover, is an integral part of STRATCOM's new Global Strike mission, which is otherwise said to provide mainly non-nuclear means of defeating time-critical targets.
		Divine Strake reflects a concern in the Pentagon over what is said to be an increasing number of a underground facilities in potentially hostile countries.
	www.nukestrat.com /us/stratcom/gs-divinestrake.htm (1663 words)

	ArmsControlWonk: Divine Strake
		DTRA confirmed that Divine Strake is the same event that is described in DTRA budget documents as being a low-yield nuclear weapons shock simulation designed to allow the warfighters to fine-tune the yield of nuclear weapons in strikes against underground facilities.
		A “strake” is a bevel used to level sand, as I understand it.
		A strake is a long, thin, straight ‘fin’ on an aerodynamic body (in our most relevant case, a bomb casing) designed not for guidance but to regularize the airflow along the hull.
	www.armscontrolwonk.com /1024/divine-strake (1493 words)

	ThisCanadian: Divine Strake: WTF???
		Divine Strake was approved in 2002 as part of the congressionally authorized DOD FY2002 Tunnel Target Defeat Advanced Concept and Technology Demonstration (ACTD).
		DIVINE STRAKE is one of several ”DIVINE“ efforts under the Hard and Deeply Buried Target Defeat (HDBTD) program.
		The DIVINE STRAKE full scale test is planned to be a large-yield, buried burst detonated at the Nevada Test Site.
	thiscanadian.typepad.com /this_canadian/2006/04/divine_strake_w.html (868 words)

	Divine Strake - A Nuclear Weapon Test with Conventional Explosives
		The test, code-named Divine Strake, is set to take place on June 2 in the western U.S. state of Nevada.
		The test, code-named Divine Strake, is set to take place on June 2 in the western U.S. state of Nevada about 145 kilometers northwest of Las Vegas and will be the biggest controlled conventional explosion in military history.
		It now appears that in the Divine Strake, Pentagon has an ingenious workaround that addresses the concerns of the Congress but at the same time tightens the screw on Iran and North Korea.
	kuku.sawf.org /Articles/9852.aspx (1015 words)

	Divine Strake U.S. Defies U.N. Decision on Nevada Test Site
		The first is that Divine Strake appears to be a test to simulate a nuclear weapons explosion, and as such it puts the United States on a path towards a new generation of nuclear weapons.
		Divine Strake is not friendly or safe and is a precursor to development of low-yield nuclear weapons, representing a serious reversal of the United State’s commitment to nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.
		Government scientists have said the purpose of Divine Strake is to fine-tune their confidence in the ability of existing weapons to defeat deeply buried, hardened targets such as a limestone tunnel containing weapons of mass destruction.
	www.wsdp.org /us_defies_un_decision_040406.htm (15135 words)

	Idaho Mountain Express: Divine Strake meeting set for Boise - January 24, 2007
		A public information session on Divine Strake, a large non-nuclear explosion experiment in Nevada, will be held Sunday, Jan. 28, in Boise.
		"Divine Strake" is an arbitrary name given to the large-scale, open air explosive detonation proposed to take place at the Nevada Test Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, said Kevin Rohrer, spokesman for the National Nuclear Security Administration in Nevada.
		Some Idahoans are concerned about how the experiment will affect, or stir up, radioactive contamination from atmospheric nuclear tests conducted during the 1950s and 1960s at the site and how it could affect residents outside the experiment area.
	www.mtexpress.com /index2.php?issue_date=01-24-2007&ID=2005113929 (879 words)

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		Sullivan's signature is required. Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes students.
		Once the set design is complete, each student will learn about how to design with lights and sound, in order to enhance their own set designs.
		The small chorus is composed of students from Saint Agnes and Strake Jesuit who have been in Chorale or Mixed Chorus the previous year. The group meets daily during a class period. Throughout the year, the chorus performs various functions both in and out of the city. Students are selected by audition.
	www.strakejesuit.org /s/103/strake.aspx?pgID=989 (1576 words)

	t r u t h o u t \| Utah Residents Rail Against Divine Strake Test
		The hearing was more like a political rally, where outrage, grief and frustration spilled out from about five dozen people who blame atomic testing in the 1950s at the nearby Nevada Test Site for a grim litany of illnesses and deaths.
		Their plan is to detonate 700 tons of ammonium nitrate, a non-nuclear explosive, to measure the likely impact of both conventional and nuclear explosions.
		Palmer's comments, like those of his critics, will be included in the state's official statement to the federal agencies on their environmental assessment.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2006/013007N.shtml (1533 words)

	ksl.com - Divine Strake
		The enormous blast, dubbed Divine Strake (not strike), is projected to send a debris cloud some 10,000 feet into the air.
		Indeed, the Defense Department ought not to go ahead with Divine Strake without credible assurances there'll be no adverse effect on residents in communities downwind from the test site.
		Divine Strake will be detonated several miles away from soils where nuclear tests were performed.
	www.ksl.com /index.php?nid=238&sid=258596 (1141 words)

	Divine Strake
		Divine Strake, the simulated nuclear blast the Defense Threat Reduction Agency was initially planning to set off nine months ago at the Nevada Test Site near Las Vegas — which would have raised a 10,000-foot mushroom cloud of god-knows-what — has been scrapped for good.
		The drive to create a new generation of low-yield nuclear weapons (e.g., bunker busters), of which Divine Strake was a part, has the glaring flaw, which government propaganda can no longer mask, of poisoning U.S. citizens in its testing and production phases.
		The 700-ton explosion named Divine Strake was halted after Western Shoshone filed a lawsuit in federal court and 42 national and international organizations joined forces, including environmental justice, environmental, political, nonproliferation activists, peace activists and indigenous groups.
	www.h-o-m-e.org /Weapons/Divine.Strake.htm (2160 words)

	The Nevada Desert Experience :: Issues :: Stop Divine Strake 2007!
		Divine Strake was to be the detonation of 700 tons of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil.
		The revised Environmental Assessment for the detonation of the Divine Test Strake states that re-suspension of fallout could travel beyond the test site boundary where it might contribute to the radiological dose of the public.
		Given the government’s history of lies and cover-ups regarding testing, the DOE’s flip-flopping on the presence of radionuclides at the site, and the debate as to whether the test is designed to simulate a nuclear blast, the DOE must provide outside, independent corroboration of any data this Environmental Assessment provides.
	www.nevadadesertexperience.org /issues/2007/stopdivinestrake2007.htm (1237 words)

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