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Deadstick landing. A deadstick landing, also called a dead-stick landing, is a type of forced landing when an aircraft loses all of its propulsive power and is forced to land. The "stick" does not refer to the flight controls, which in most aircraft are either fully or partially functional without engine power, but to the traditional wooden ...
Motion camouflage is camouflage which provides a degree of concealment for a moving object, given that motion makes objects easy to detect however well their coloration matches their background or breaks up their outlines. The principal form of motion camouflage, and the type generally meant by the term, involves an attacker's mimicking the ...
1CC. Abbreviation of one-credit completion or one-coin clear. To complete an arcade (or arcade-style) game without using continues. [1] 1-up. An object that gives the player an extra life (or attempt) in games where the player has a limited number of chances to complete a game or level. [2] 100%.
Look up the straw that broke the camel's back in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The idiom " the straw that broke the camel's back " describes a minor or routine action that causes an unpredictably large and sudden reaction due to the cumulative effect of previous small actions. It alludes to the proverb "it is the last straw that breaks the ...
“And he very slowly brought the stick back and the wings bent way up, some 30 feet at the wingtips, and it lifted off very smoothly.” They arrived back to a hero's welcome as thousands ...
Devil sticks. The manipulation of the devil stick (also devil-sticks, devilsticks, flower sticks, bâtons fleurs, stunt sticks, gravity sticks, or juggling sticks) is a form of gyroscopic juggling or equilibristics, consisting of manipulating one stick ("baton", 'center stick') between one or two other sticks held one in each hand.
For Paul Hockenos, the death of the stick shift can’t come soon enough. Amid the climate crisis, car manufacturers are increasingly shifting to electric, and the days of manual transmission are ...
The Back Room. The story of The Back Room begins with Lilya Barkman, a woman living as a member of the elite class in Harlem. Lilya only cares about her youth and beauty. Her struggles begin when she must cope with the consequences of age. She was successful in her life because she could manipulate men with her good looks.
geomun (-)go or hyeon (-)geum. McCune–Reischauer. kŏmun'go or hyŏn'gŭm. The geomungo, [a] alternate name hyeongeum, [b] is a traditional Korean plucked zither with both bridges and frets. Geomungo is a representative stringed instrument made in Goguryeo before the 5th century. [1] Scholars believe that the name refers to Goguryeo and ...
Chicago P.D.’s Hailey Upton has officially left the Windy City, but her future is still very much up in the air. Showrunner Gwen Sigan, however, has her own ideas of what happens next for the ...