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51Windscale fire — The Windscale Piles (centre and right) in 1985. The Windscale fire of 10 October 1957 was the worst nuclear accident in Great Britain s history, ranked in severity at level 5 on the 7 point International Nuclear Event Scale.[1] The two piles had… …
52Uliaga Island — Location map Alaska label= lat=53.1314 long= 170.9595 position=right width=250 float=right caption=Location in AlaskaUliaga Island (also spelled Uliagan , Ouliaga , and Ouilliaghui [cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=dUQMAAAAYAAJ… …
531967 USS Forrestal fire — Infobox News event caption= Rupertus (DD 851) maneuvers to within convert|20|ft|m of Forrestal so fire hoses could be effectively used on the worst US carrier fire since WWII. date=29 July 1967 time=About 10:50 a.m. local time place=Gulf of… …
54MS Riverdance — The Riverdance is a RORO ferry formerly in service with Seatruck Ferries on the Irish Sea. Riverdance was hit by a wave on the 31 January 2008 which caused her cargo to shift and she was eventually beached at Blackpool, very close to the border… …
551977 Convair CV-300 crash — Convair CV 300 N55VM crash Accident summary Date October 20, 1977, at 18:52 (CST). Type Stalled due to fuel exhaustion, destroyed on impact during emergency landing attempt …
56Tokyo tanks — were internally mounted self sealing fuel tanks used in the B 17 Flying Fortress bomber during World War II. Although nicknamed Tokyo tanks to dramatically illustrate the significant range they added to the B 17 (approximately 40% greater with… …
57Manned Venus Flyby — A manned Venus flyby was considered by NASA in the mid 1960s as part of the Apollo Applications Program, using hardware derived from the Apollo program. Launch would take place on October 31, 1973, with a Venus fly by on March 3, 1974 and return… …
58Wet workshop — is the idea of using a spent rocket stage as a makeshift space station. A liquid fuel rocket primarily consists of two large, airtight fuel tanks; it was realized that the fuel tanks could be retrofitted into the living quarters of a space… …
59Vapor lock — (also known as vapour lock) is a problem that mostly affects gasoline fueled internal combustion engines. It occurs when the liquid fuel changes state from liquid to gas while still in the fuel delivery system. This disrupts the operation of the… …
60TWA Flight 800 — For the 1964 crash of a TWA Boeing 707 in Rome, Italy, see TWA Flight 800 (1964). TWA Flight 800 Recovered TWA 800 wreckage Accident summary Date …
