Impressed by how "welcoming and helpful" the RPM musicians are, Fedofsky decided to participate in the Challenge for the second year in a row.
The rpm readout was the only indication of any change.
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Gearboxes have traditionally been used to speed up the RPM from the rotor to the generator, but they are the weak link in the chain as you get larger.
With a flip of the traction-control switch and a depression of the accelerator, the needle red-lined on the rpm gauge and the car sprang out of the snow with the alacrity of a mountain goat.
In the run-up to the Senate Armed Services Committee's hearing this Thursday on Chuck Hagel's fitness to become the next Secretary of Defense, its members have been treated to the spectacle of the nominee spinning at the RPM of a prima ballerina.
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Pulling out the 15k RPM card this late in the game would usually be frowned upon, but in the case of NHK, its latest development to spin at 15, 000 revolutions per minute has nothing to do with a hard disk drive.
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Because peak power arrives at different rpm for the gas engine and the electric traction motor, peak system horsepower nets out to be an even 200 hp at 5, 600 rpm, which is the rated redline.
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Though Murstein and Bergeron hired Lisa Brown, a former AOL executive, to be the team's chief executive, Petty, as the chairman of RPM, is still running most of the show, which includes the wooing of the sponsors.
Peak torque arrives quickly, at 3, 250 rpm, and the squirt from a standing stop to that rpm comes on with great urgency because the newest Bentley uses twin turbochargers that spool up very rapidly.
One possible use of this technology is to provide context information from the car, something like the engine speed has reached 2000 rpm, the parking brake has been disengaged, the transmission gear is in drive and the brake pedal is fully off the floor.
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Above 4, 000 rpm the max torque (325 pound-feet) comes on and stays on until 5, 600 rpm, supplying big whoops with each dab of throttle.
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The AL13SE is the first 10, 000 RPM class model enterprise drive from Toshiba to achieve 900GB capacity and is also the first of Toshiba's 10, 000 RPM drives to employ a dual-stage head positioning actuator that provides additional performance gains, including a 32% increase in sustained transfer rate.
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Released weeks later, the 78-rpm record became an overnight sensation and a fitting start to jazz's future.
The Joy of the Single, meanwhile, will feature Jack White, Norman Cook, Neil Sedaka and others talking about the vinyl 45 rpm record.
Like the BRZ, the Focus ST isn't particularly, by-the-clock fast (0-60 mph in about six seconds, at about 6, 600 rpm at the top of second gear) but it feels birdlike, sporty, tossable, willing, lively.
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The TDI Clean Diesel engine makes 295 lb-ft from just 1750 rpm, while the electric motors produce their torque-133 lb-ft at the front wheels and 199 lb-ft at the rear-immediately.
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Other bullet points for the 2014 Vanquish include an additional 55 horsepower (565 hp at 6, 750 rpm) and 37 pound-feet more torque (457 pound-feet at 5, 500 rpm) over the DBS. Aston's all-alloy 5.9-liter, mid-front-mounted V12 gets a sprucing up with variable timing on both intake and exhaust sides, as well as freer-breathing intake geometry.
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The app works best if the object is situated on Arqball's stage, which rotates at an optimal three RPM -- the stage isn't available yet, but the company's going the Kickstarter route to get the capital needed to start manufacturing.
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Romp the throttle at mid-rpm in third gear and you'll get a huge, hydraulic shove in the back, like God has hit you with a water balloon.
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Subaru also cagily put most of the engine's twist up high in the rev counter, with peak torque of 151 pound-feet at an astronomical 6, 400 rpm the high, hollow, splintering engine note is what you'd hear if you crashed through a grove of bamboo.
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Start the engine of the running car, and run it for 1-2 minutes while revving the engine to higher rpm.
"There'll be a trend toward 7200 rpm by the end of 1999, " predicts John Mason, director of product marketing at Compaq.
There's also 320 horsepower on tap, lest we forget, which means by the time you've reached the 7, 000 rpm redline in second gear, you're shattering any legal speed limit in America.
After a promising start in journalism, interviewing Jimi Hendrix and Yoko Ono in the same week, his ambitions receded only to be recruited to Radio Blackburn in 1978 to work on the music review show RPM.
If, motoring along in fourth gear at 1, 000 rpm, you nail the throttle, the car will generate nearly 0.5 g of longitudinal acceleration until it hits 6, 000 rpm.
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The panel chair, a pediatrician, worried about kids getting ahold of the powerful drug, according to a tweet from Ramsey Baghdadi, editor of health policy magazine RPM Report one of the analysts who predicted the no vote for Concept Capital.
Although it seems fairly straightforward and simple there is actually a tremendous amount of pedaling and steering involved, along with counting gears, remembering what parts on the course are rough or soft and need to be avoided, looking at RPM, paying attention to the sounds of the engine and the car and being on alert for the unexpected to happen.
Ask any engineering executive at any car company: In order to meet new and ambitious fuel-economy standards in the global markets including a U.S. Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard of 54.5 mpg by 2025 cars and trucks of the near future will have to exploit the advantages of electric drive (low rpm torque, low-speed efficiency, regenerative braking) in urban driving, while reserving the gasoline-fired engine for times of peak load and sustained demand.
Featuring a 2.5-inch 7, 200 RPM hard drive, the G-DRIVE mini is the high-performance solution designed specially with the content creator in mind.
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Just a year and a half into Gillett's reign RPM nearly sank amid the global financial crisis, the troubles of U.S. car manufacturers who pay for much of the sport and Gillett's debt problems.
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