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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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• Air filter
  [[Image:Air filter, opel astra(2).JPG|thumb|right|Air filter in an [[Opel Astra]] car, top side=clean side]] [[Image:Air filter, opel astra(1).JPG|thumb|right|Air filter in an [[Opel Astra]] car, bottom side=dust side]]
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• Vehicle interior equipment
  Ancillary equipment such as [[stereo]]s, [[air conditioning]], [[cruise control]], car [[phone]]s, [[positioning system]]s Air conditioning used when the car [[engine]] is off, can cause main [[battery]
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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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• Brake
  ...[Saab 17|Saab B 17]] [[dive bomber]] used the deployed undercarriage as an air brake. ...ke]] or [[disc brake]]) during the brake application and release it to the air gradually.
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• Forced induction
  ...normally referred to as [[boost (automotive engineering)|Boost]] or charge air. ...h greater percentage of oxygen per volume of air intake to be added to the air/fuel mixture. The effects are an increase to the effective capacity of the
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• Lancia motorcycle
  ...s, a two-stroke engine, with air suction in the crankcase where the intake air is pure was to help to keep the gas cool in the cylinder with the aim of el
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• Coil bind
  ...car appears several inches above the ground.<br>Bottom: At full speed the air dam appears much closer to the ground.}} ...)#Travel|travel]] (hence the name). The goal of coil bind is to keep the [[air dam]] (or splitter if applicable) at the front of the car as low to the gro
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• CBR
  ...with a carburetor with the air intake around the cylinder, to preheat the air. It had a Ruthardt magneto ignition, lubrication pump with an additional di
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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 ...ic braking is to reduce the amount of air braking required. This conserves air and minimizes the risks of over-heated wheels. One locomotive manufacturer,
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• Boost gauge
  A turbo- or supercharger are both engine driven air compressors and provide varying levels of ''boost'' according to engine rpm ...methods can be employed to increase factory boost levels such as bleeding air off the wastegate diaphragm to 'fool' it into staying open longer. To avoid
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• Air filter
  [[Image:Air filter, opel astra(2).JPG|thumb|right|Air filter in an [[Opel Astra]] car, top side=clean side]] [[Image:Air filter, opel astra(1).JPG|thumb|right|Air filter in an [[Opel Astra]] car, bottom side=dust side]]
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• Gulf of Sidra
  In the [[Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)]], [[United States|US]]-[[Libya]]n air engagement over territorial claim, two Libyan [[Su-22]] jets were shot down *[[Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)]], [[United States|US]]-[[Libya]]n air engagement over territorial claim, two Libyan jets shot down
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• Electro-pneumatic brake system on British railway trains
  ...that was novel in the UK, the electro-pneumatic brake in which compressed air brake operation was controlled electrically by the driver. This was a consi ...equirements. The fleet prior to World War 2 used the two-pipe Westinghouse Air Brake system, which was more effective than the generally prevailing vacuum
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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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• Engine knocking
  ...ct occurs. It is caused by an instantaneous ignition of the remaining fuel/air mixture in the form of an explosion. The cylinder pressure rises dramatical * Adding water in the form of vapor in the air intake.
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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
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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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• Illy
  ...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- ...e invented the first automatic coffee machine which substituted compressed air for steam: the illetta, the predecessor of today's espresso machines.
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• Todeschini
  ...ncarlo Pelatti]] founded the company for the production of small cars with air-cooled ''De Dion Bouton'' [[engines]]. Some [[prototypes]] had been develop
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• Combustion
  ...₂). Thus, when [[methane]] (CH₄) is combusted using air as the oxygen source, the first example equation above becomes: As can be seen, when air is the source of the oxygen, nitrogen is by far the largest part of the pro
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