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101Solar sail — Solar sails (also called light sails or photon sails, especially when they use light sources other than the Sun) are a proposed form of spacecraft propulsion using large membrane mirrors. Radiation pressure is about 10 5 Pa at Earth s distance… …
102Sail — A sail is any type of surface intended to generate thrust by being placed in a wind mdash;in essence a vertically oriented wing. Sails are used in sailing.History of sailsThe ships built at around 10,000 BC were just crude log rafts or dug out… …
103Sewing machine — Elias Howe s lockstitch machine, invented 1845 A sewing machine is a textile machine used to stitch fabric, cards and other material together with thread. Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount …
104Sukhoi Su-24 — Infobox Aircraft name= Su 24 caption= type= Attack aircraft manufacturers= Sukhoi designer= first flight= 2 July 1967 introduced= 1974 retired= status= Active service primary user= Russian Air Force more users= Ukrainian Air Force Islamic… …
105Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft — (FSTA) is a UK project to provide aerial refueling (AR) and air transport (AT) for the Royal Air Force using a version of the Airbus A330 MRTT. The Royal Australian Air Force announced in April 2004 that they had selected Airbus to provide… …
106Model yachting — This article is concerned with model vessels that are operated, either though programatic means or by remote control. For models intended for static display see ship model San Francisco Model Yacht Club X class (1000 square inches, few other… …
107Radio Caroline — is a European radio station that started transmissions on Easter Sunday 1964 from a ship anchored in international waters off the coast of Felixstowe, Suffolk, England. [ [http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/history2.asp Don t Get Mad, Get Even] ] It… …
108KC-X — is the name of the United States Air Force program to procure its next generation aerial refueling tanker aircraft. This aircraft is intended to replace some of the older Boeing KC 135 Stratotankers. The United States Air Force announced on… …
109List of U.S. Marine Corps acronyms and expressions — This is a list of acronyms, expressions, euphemisms, jargon, military slang, and sayings in common or formerly common use in the United States Marine Corps. Many of the words or phrases have varying levels of acceptance among different units or… …
110HMS Dryad (1795) — HMS Dryad was a 36 gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy which served for 64 years, at first during the Napoleonic Wars and then in the suppression of slavery.HistoryLaunch and the loss of Captain Forbes (1795)Launched on 4 June 1795, Dryad… …
