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• Falcone
  |Engine type || 499cc air-cooled OHV single
  751 bytes (85 words) - 13:43, 23 July 2010
• Temperino
  ...uction a couple of years later as the 8-10HP with a 800cc engine (still V2 air-cooled) and production continued through and after the first world war. Ove ...embly process. Two models were available, the normal version (two-cylinder air-cooled 1010cc Vee engine with 20bhp) and a Sport model (two-cylinder in-lin
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• OPRA
  ...or [[Gilera]] and [[MV Agusta]] racing),was a 500 cc racer with transverse air-cooled OHC four cylinder engine. There were also 'normale' motorcycles race
  945 bytes (130 words) - 10:00, 19 April 2010
• Whitney Willard Straight
  '''[[Air Commodore]] Whitney Willard Straight''' ([[Order of the British Empire|CBE] ...East in charge of RAF transport command operations there with the rank of Air Commodore, and in September of 1943 took over the newly made Cairo aerodro
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• Vacuum brake
  Its limitations caused it to be progressively superseded by compressed air systems, in the [[United Kingdom]] from the 1970's. ...le use anywhere in the world, supplanted in the main by [[air brake (rail)|air brakes]].
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• Hydraulic brake
  ...sides of the chamber reach equilibrium. This can be caused by either the air valve closing (due to the pedal apply stopping) or if "runout" is reached. ...restrictions must be considered. Air brake systems are bulky, and require air compressors and reservoir tanks for their operation.
  7 KB (1,200 words) - 09:40, 8 October 2009
• Beadlock
  ...s needed for an [[off-road vehicle]]'s tires, drivers will often lower the air pressure to cause the [[tread]] to spread out and create a larger [[contact
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• ELSA
  ...y [[Carlo Sorelli Brescian]]. They developed and manufactured a two-stroke air-cooled 75 cc which would be applied to the bicycle can could overcome climb
  951 bytes (136 words) - 12:29, 15 April 2010
• 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
  10 KB (1,533 words) - 09:02, 8 October 2009
• STAR
  ...also competed in motorsport's with relatively good results. In 1910 rapid air starters were used for starting then charging in 1916 for electrical starte
  986 bytes (135 words) - 22:50, 17 December 2016
• Cabi-Cattaneo
  ...in World War One, with the extensive use of his unique designs in Italian Air Force aircraft. He also developed and manufactured the engines for the cele ...Atlantic flights in 1931 and 1933 when the Italian Air Force was planning air routes to the Americas.
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• Itala motorcycle
  ...8 cc and 498 cc Python engines. In addition, Itala built the 498 cc Super, air-cooled V four ''Chaise'' engine.
  964 bytes (130 words) - 16:48, 16 April 2010
• Lawil
  ...rs, were available in both closed and open versions and had a two-cylinder air-cooled two-stroke engines. It features two engine options, either the 246 c
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• Prosciutto
  ...imes to remove the [[salt]]. It is then hung in a shady, airy place. The air is important to the final quality of the ham. The ham is left until dry. A similar style of air-dried ham, [[Jamón serrano]], is made in [[Spain]].
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• Fongri
  ...engine was the same cylinder used in [[Fongri motorcycle]]s, four-stroke, air-cooled cylinders and opposed to the horizontal axis.
  1 KB (183 words) - 00:46, 21 December 2010
• Racing
  ...:Hungarian aerobatics pilot Peter Besenyei at speed in his Extra 300 at an air race in England]] * [[Air racing]]
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• Fuel pump
  ...condition is known as "[[vapour lock]]". Also a suction pump could suck in air through (difficult to diagnose) faulty hose connections. A leaking connecti ...[[pedal]] results in the throttle body opening on the engine (metering the air going in) rather than engaging the fuel pump. The ignition switch does not
  4 KB (634 words) - 09:01, 8 October 2009
• Monaco-Trossi
  ...combustion chamber for each pair of cylinders. This was front-mounted and air-cooled like an aero-engine. Another novelty for those times was front wheel
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• Tire mousse
  ...ins being used, it heats up and becomes primed for use. In the event of an air leak, and subsequent loss of pressure, the mousse expands to fill the void,
  1 KB (195 words) - 09:52, 12 December 2009
• Alessandro Anzani
  ...who, in July 25 1909, completed the first flight of the English Channel by air motor and in October 1909, successfully complete a flight from [[Toury]] to
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