Some sessions will focus specifically on silver and the platinum group metals, including future trends in off-road engine demand for platinum and pressures faced by producers.
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The 63-year-old Fossett disappeared September 3rd after taking off in a single-engine plane from a Nevada airstrip.
With 90% of Ceradyne's revenues coming from such big defense contractors as Hughes, Martin Marietta and McDonnell Douglas--and with the ceramic car engine still several years off--Moskowitz is now searching hard for nonmilitary ceramics applications.
In May, Doncaster Robin Hood Airport was forced to close temporarily after the Vulcan bomber aborted take-off due to an engine fault.
Some additional maneuvers and engine shut-off checks are expected before the final docking sequence.
That's the main engine cut-off when the shuttle's engines turn off and you're in orbit.
But the real hacking is done by Superchips and dozens of other outfits that produce off-the-shelf modules that alter an engine's computer code.
Perhaps a risk worth taking, Lord Turner is likely to argue, if it is a one-off injection of fuel into the flat engine of the economy.
When the rocket at last blasted off on November 15th, the first-stage engine cut out prematurely, forcing the ground crew to destroy it for safety reasons.
In the biggest high-profile incident in the U.S. in recent years, more than 3, 000 passengers aboard the Carnival Splendor were towed to shore in 2010 by a Mexican tugboat after an engine-room fire cut off the ship's electricity.
The GTS's star attraction is its torque-rich 4.8-liter V8, the same dry-sump, alloy-block engine as in the all-wheel-drive Panamera 4S but let off the leash a bit, with a higher redline (7, 100-rpm fuel shut-off), lumpier cam-lift logic, more aggressive transmission software (quicker, harder shifts available from the dual-clutch PDK gearbox), and additional cold-air boxes with active shutters behind lower lateral bumper intakes.
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The so-called Quiet Tuning elements are consistent with the brand image and generally easier and cheaper to pull off than a state-of-the-art engine.
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The next-gen game engine was being shown off at GDC 2013 with a flashy new demo (seen below the break), as well as a version of its "Elemental" demo running on a PlayStation 4 dev kit (shrouded behind a curtain, of course).
Many of these gadgets can be used to turn off a check engine light, which can be a money-saver if you avoid a trip to the garage simply because the gas cap was loose, a common cause of check engine alerts.
The fanfare over the release of its A380 was dampened by a variety of production issues, including cabin wiring issues, cracks that appeared inside some of the wings, and an engine that blew apart during the take-off of a Qantas Airways flight departing Singapore in 2010.
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The device, which resembles the sawed-off head of a driver golf club, uses its Plant Care Engine (or PCE as its literature so abbreviates) to detect such important plant growth criteria as water, fertilizer, humidity, temperature and light.
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In E-mode, only the 114-hp rear electric motor propels the vehicle and the TDI engine is shut off and decoupled from the drivetrain.
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It has been held back partly by the fact that the very long-range version has yet to be launched, because the three largest aero-engine makers have been reluctant to produce engines big enough to get it off the ground.
He was short and stocky, his nickname was The Little Steam Engine and yet, thanks to his blazing fastball and a mean pick-off move, he managed to win 364 games in his pro career.
Unfortunately, because of the nature of air circulation, any downward-pointing force created aerodynamically generates a backward-pointing resistance in the process just as an increase in the lift of an aircraft wing as the flaps are lowered for take-off or landing creates more drag in the process, forcing the pilot to open the engine throttles to overcome the extra wind resistance.
Henceforth someone trying to build an engine could pluck a standard 8-gauge, 32-threads-per-inch machine screw off the shelf.
In an off-grid village in India, for example, biogas from an anaerobic digester could be burned to drive the Stirling engine to generate power.
The electric engine is installed over the rear wheels and functions off of a signal gear, produced as a joint-venture between Mercedes-Benz and Bosch.
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