| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jul 03 02:25PM > 1. Sousaphone. C > 2. Balalaika. E > 3. Krummhorn, a medieval member of the oboe family. N; A > 4. Serpent. M > 5. Fife. G > 6. Clarinette d'amour. F > 7. Racket, an old, oddly shaped member of the oboe family. O; P > 8. Theorbo, a Renaissance-era member of the lute family. B; H > 9. Heckelphone, a member of the oboe family. A; O > 10. Hurdy-gurdy, a member of the violin family with a keyboard > and a crank. I > burning fuel; > * powers a second turbine that drives the first one; > * rushes forcefully out the exhaust to yield forward thrust. fanjet > usual seating configuration, entered commercial service in 1936 > and was the most successful and durable of its era, commanding > at one point 80% of the US market. Name it. DC-3 > banked to the left or right), a control surface is raised on one > wing and lowered on the other. What are these paired control > surfaces called? aileron > (that is, the nose is to be raised), a control surface is > raised on the tail, or perhaps one on each half of the tail. > What is this control surface called? rudder > pilot's controls; instead they have their own motors that are > actuated through a computer. What phrase of three short words > is used informally to describe this system? fly by wire > *either* the company or the American city that the X-1 came > from. In later years the company has been best known for > their helicopters. Bell > the same division of the same company. The division took its > informal name from a phrase in a comic strip. Either give this > name, or name the company. Skunkworks -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
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