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  • 101Kitesurfing — Kitesurfing, kiteboarding, uses wind power to pull a rider through the water on a small surfboard or a kiteboard (which is like a wakeboard). Generally kiteboarding refers to a style of riding known as free style or wakestyle where as kitesurfing …

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  • 102Powered hang glider — A foot launched powered hang glider (FLPHG), also called powered harness, nanolight or hangmotor, is a powered hang glider harness with a motor and propeller in pusher configuration. An ordinary hang glider is used for its wing and control frame …

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  • 103Sister Roma — Male adult bio name = Sister Roma, There s No Place Like Rome caption = Sister Roma of the San Francisco Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. at San Francisco Pride 2007. birth = birth date and age|1962|12|22 location = Michigan birthname =… …

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  • 104Maple Grove Raceway — Location Brecknock Township, Berks County, near Mohnton, Pennsylvania Time zone GMT 5 Coordinates …

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  • 105Lockheed P-38 Lightning — P 38 redirects here. For other uses, see P 38 (disambiguation). P 38 Lightning P 38H 5 LO, AAF Ser. No. 4 …

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  • 106Wingtip device — Infobox Aviation name = Wingtip devices caption = The winglet and red navigation light on the port (left) wing of a South African Airways Boeing 747 400Wingtip devices are usually intended to improve the efficiency of fixed wing aircraft.… …

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  • 107Slick tyre — Tyre on Alain Prost s 1983 Formula One racecar A slick tyre (also known as a racing slick ) is a type of tyre that has no tread pattern, used mostly in auto racing. The first production slick tyre was developed by a company called M H Tires in… …

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  • 108Flap (aircraft) — Flaps are hinged surfaces on the trailing edge of the wings of a fixed wing aircraft. As flaps are extended, the stalling speed of the aircraft is reduced. Flaps are also used on the leading edge of the wings of some high speed jet aircraft,… …

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  • 109Charlotte Motor Speedway — Location 5555 Concord Parkway South Concord, North Carolina, 28027 …

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  • 110Morison equation — Flow forces according to the Morison equation for a body placed in a harmonic flow, as a function of time. Blue line: drag force; red line: inertia force; black line: total force according to the Morison equation. Note that the inertia force is… …

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