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• Air racing
  ...auto racing races, however, air racing races usually draw smaller crowds. Air races are usually held at small [[airport]]s. Many of the planes used also ...rp.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|250px| '''Air racing''' in England: the Red Bull Air Race heat held at Kemble airfield, Gloucestershire. The aircraft fly singly
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• Brake (railway)
  ...er '''continuous brakes''' started to appear, either '''[[Air brake (rail)|air operated]]''' or '''[[vacuum brake|vacuum operated]]'''. These brakes used Automatic brakes on the other hand use the air or vacuum pressure to hold the brakes off against a reservoir carried on ea
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• Naturally-aspirated engine
  ...ng away from the valves (so as to expand the volume available for incoming air). In some cases the lowering of the cylinder pressure is enhanced by a com ...this category. Naturally-aspirated engines have been mandated in Formula One since [[1989 in sports|1989]], in order to curb the excessive powers being
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• Crossflow cylinder head
  ...ad being ported and red arrow showing the super efficient straight through air passage way'''</center>]] ...e larger and its physical separation of the hot exhaust manifold keeps the air in the intake manifold cooler. Most modern engines are of a crossflow desig
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• Dynamic brake
  ...efore it is always used in conjunction with the regular [[Air brake (rail)|Air Brake]]. This combined system is called '''blended braking.''' Li-ion batte ...equired. This conserves air and minimizes the risks of over-heated wheels. One locomotive manufacturer, [[Electro-Motive Diesel|EMD]], estimates that dyna
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• Ferrari 156 Sharknose
  ...lso secured Ferrari their first [[List of Formula One constructors|Formula One World Constructor's Championship]]. In 'good' Ferrari tradition all the sha ...61 version was affectionately dubbed "sharknose" due to its characteristic air intake "nostrils". Then-Ferrari factory policy inevitably saw all the remai
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• Hydraulic brake
  The brake pedal is a simple lever. It is attached at one point to the framework of the automobile, a rod extends from a point along ...t between the front and rear wheel sets, and partly for safety reasons: If one system fails, all braking ability is not lost; the other set can stop the v
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• Beadlock
  ...In certain situations where there is a lot of pressure pushing the tire to one side or the other, the bead of the tire may come off the wheel. It is also ...blems with balancing the wheel and tire because all the added weight is on one side.
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• Solenoid
  ...energy; [[pneumatic]] solenoids, which derive their energy from compressed air and [[hydraulic]] solenoids, which obtain energy from pressurized [[fluid]] ...ough the centre of one end. To stroke the solenoid pressure is applied to one end of the device, while the other end is allowed to vent. To reverse the
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• Fuel pump
  ...for this purpose: one low pressure/high volume supply pump in the tank and one high pressure/low volume pump on or near the engine. ...condition is known as "[[vapour lock]]". Also a suction pump could suck in air through (difficult to diagnose) faulty hose connections. A leaking connecti
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• Minardi PS03
  Category = [[Formula One]] | Engine name = [[European Aviation Air Charter|European]] |
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• Minardi PS01
  Category = [[Formula One]] | Engine name = [[European Aviation Air Charter|European]] |
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• Illy
  illy produces only one blend in three roast variations: normal, dark roast or decaffeinated. The b ...ion technique used by the company to preserve its coffee. In this process, air is extracted from the cans and replaced with inert gasses at a higher-than-
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• Blowoff valve
  ...entrifugally supercharged car when the throttle is lifted or closed. This air pressure is re-circulated back into the non-pressurized end of the intake ( ...oter valve, dump valve''') does basically the same thing, but releases the air to the atmosphere. This creates a very distinctive sound desired by many
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• Piston
  ...seal]] between the piston and the [[cylinder (engine)|cylinder]] wall, and one or more ''oil control ring''s below the compression rings. The head of the ...tto]] or [[Diesel engine|Diesel]] [[engine]], the head of the piston forms one wall of an expansion chamber inside the [[cylinder]]. The opposite wall, c
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• Twin-turbo
  ...nifold. Parallel twin turbos are usually applied to V-shaped engines where one turbo is assigned to each cylinder bank, providing packaging symmetry, and ...iceable bit of lag, especially in high-flow turbo/high boost applications. One way to counter this is to use a light pressure set up where the turbos are
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• Freestyle Motocross
  *Big Air (also known as Best Trick), in which each rider gets three jumps &mdash; us ...angles that generally occupy one to two acres (.4 to .8 hectres). Like Big Air, a panel of judges assigns each contestant a score based on a 100-point sca
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• Automobile emissions control
  ...s control''' covers all the technologies that are employed to reduce the [[air pollution]]-causing emissions produced by [[automobile]]s. Exhaust emissio ...emissions'': This is what most people think of when they think of vehicle air pollution; the products of burning fuel in the vehicle's [[internal combust
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• Artesi
  ...seen in this volume to the relatively recent past, both remote of Italian. One of these "fever" in 1948 struck so virulent even Antonio Artesi in [[Palerm air cooled, chain drive, 4-speed gearbox + reverse motorcycles motor. The vehic
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• Issi
  |Engine || Air cooled Single cylinder two-stroke ...eel at the rear and two in front) with a single cylinder engine two-stroke air cooled engine with a bore of 56.5 mm and stroke of 50 mm and displacement o
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