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Nimitz, MacArthur and Leahy holding a conference with FDR.. Responsibility for the planning of Operation Downfall fell to American commanders Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and the Joint Chiefs of Staff—Fleet Admirals Ernest King and William D. Leahy, and Generals of the Army George Marshall and Hap Arnold (the latter being the commander of the U.S. Army ...
All Creatures Here Below. All Creatures Here Below is a 2018 American drama film directed by Collin Schiffli and written by David Dastmalchian. [2] The film is produced by Nacho Arenas, Amy Greene, and Chris Stinson under the banner of Planeo Films. The film stars Dastmalchian, Karen Gillan, David Koechner, John Doe, and Jennifer Morrison.
Planing (boat) A Contender dinghy planing on a broad reach. Note the typical way the bow lifts up while the stern skims over the water. Planing ( / ˈpleɪnɪŋ / PLAY-ning) is the mode of operation for a waterborne craft in which its weight is predominantly supported by hydrodynamic lift, rather than hydrostatic lift ( buoyancy ).
Plandemic is a trilogy of conspiracy theory films produced by Mikki Willis, promoting misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic. They feature Judy Mikovits, a discredited American researcher and prominent anti-vaccine activist. The first video, Plandemic: The Hidden Agenda Behind Covid-19, was released on May 4, 2020, under Willis' production company Elevate Films. The second film, Plandemic ...
Lift and drag are the two components of the total aerodynamic force acting on an aerofoil or aircraft. In aerodynamics, the lift-to-drag ratio (or L/D ratio) is the lift generated by an aerodynamic body such as an aerofoil or aircraft, divided by the aerodynamic drag caused by moving through air. It describes the aerodynamic efficiency under ...
Non-ballistic atmospheric entry. Non-ballistic atmospheric entry is a class of atmospheric entry trajectories that follow a non- ballistic trajectory by employing aerodynamic lift in the high upper atmosphere. It includes trajectories such as skip and glide. [ 1][ 2] Skip is a flight trajectory where the spacecraft goes in and out the atmosphere.
British Airways Flight 009, sometimes referred to by its callsign Speedbird 9 or as the Jakarta incident, [ 1] was a scheduled British Airways flight from London Heathrow to Auckland, with stops in Bombay, Kuala Lumpur, Perth, and Melbourne . On 24 June 1982, the route was flown by City of Edinburgh, a Boeing 747-236B registered as G-BDXH.
The slow progress of ‘good fire’ According to Cal Fire data, about 100,000 acres were treated with prescribed burns last year — up from about 50,000 acres from 2020. But a variety of ...