Service tips.(Auto Clinic)(cleaning the GM truck engine)(Brief Article)

Popular Mechanics;  February 1, 2005 ;   Allen, Mike;   121 words ...* Does the ABS in your late-model GM truck activate randomly at tow speeds, like below 5 mph? Technical Service Bulletin (TSB) 03-05-007A says it's because dirt may have built up on the mounting of the...

High speed skimmer shines at Ohmsett Spill Response Center

Sea Technology;  January 1, 1998 ;   Anonymous;   527 words ......system capable of recovering oil from the water surface at tow speeds of 3 knots and above. This new system will become support...within the U.S. Coast Guard VOSS inventory. Typically, at tow speeds above 2 knots, skimming performance, drops off. Four candidate...

Fiber-optic vector sensor arrays.(NAVY SBIR SOLICITATIONS)

Fiber Optics Weekly Update;  August 24, 2007 ;     510 words ......consider techniques for reducing low frequency flow noise at slow tow speeds. The array must deploy with facility from a submarine, operate...electronic noise and low flow noise at lower frequencies for slow tow speeds. The sensor and array should have low susceptibility to electromagnetic...

Surprising, yet predictable - if you wait a little

Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  November 14, 2007 ;     649 words ......undertaken by MBA scientists Frederick Russell, Alan Southward, Gerald Boalch and Ian Butler in 1971. It focused on long-term zooplankton data and the apparent change every 45 to 50 years from a predominance of pilchards to one of herring. This was supported by...

Interspecific variation in the abundance, production, and emergence of...

Ecology;  July 1, 1998 ;   Caceres, Carla E.;   787 words ......factors, have been reported elsewhere (e.g., Mills et al. 1978, 1987, Mills and Forney 1987, Caceres 1997a, in press). Zooplankton data collected over the past 30 yr demonstrate a striking negative correlation between two suspension-feeding zooplankton species...

Sonic boomerang: it has no tail, no fuselage, and at high speed, it...

Popular Mechanics;  June 1, 2006 ;   Wise, Jeff;   256 words ......greater than Mach 1, due to the drag caused by supersonic shock waves. Sweptback wings are better, but provide less control at tow speeds. And wings that can pivot back in flight, like those on an F-14 Tomcat, are heavy and complex. As early as 1955, NASA engineer...

New oil boom cleans up

The Scotsman;  November 12, 2002 ;   JAMES REYNOLDS ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT;   290 words ......and the Arts. His device uses a set of inflatable booms and is designed to permit recovery and collection of spilled oil at tow speeds of up to five knots. Existing boom systems can only operate at speeds of one knot and suffer from significant oil loss when...

Avery Updates Drilling Rig Progress and Announces Investor Relations...

Canadian Corporate News;  December 3, 2004 ;     418 words ......north of Townsville and is now less than 2,400 kilometres from the proposed Katandra-1 location. Assuming that the average tow speeds of around 10 kilometres per hour are maintained, the rig would be on location sometime between December 12 and 14. Unfavourable...

The restlessman: gear.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)

Esquire;  May 1, 2005 ;     209 words ......about keeping your cool. The E2 is superlight, thanks to the way its plastic shell and inner foam are heat molded, and it's vented to create an airflow even at tow speeds. Plus, you won't took like an escapee from the short bus. $125; giro.com.

Foam panel line to China.(Machinery News)

Plastics & Rubber Asia;  March 1, 2005 ;     355 words ......polymerisation phase. Cannon's drive system is said to guarantee a more constant movement of the conveyor slats, especially at tow speeds. Furthermore, the cutting unit is provided with a special trimming system for the panel's side finishing. Although foam sandwich...

NV-shuttle--enhanced undulating vehicle

Sea Technology;  February 1, 1998 ;   Dunning, Justin;   787 words ......the AquaShuttle. However, with these increased forces came instabilities in yaw, manifested in roll and roll offsets at high tow speeds, the roll offset being most prominent at near-surface. Further work involved alteration to the side panel extensions ab

Mulitiple sensor FOCUS-1500

Sea Technology;  February 1, 1998 ;   Parker, Gary; Saade, Edward;   787 words ......either side of the central trackline and up to +/- 40 meters vertically without heaving in or paying out of tow cable. Typical tow speeds range from 1.5 to 5 knots (0.75 to 2.5 meters/second), depending on the water depth and survey application. The SAIC FOCUS-15...

Microstructure Measurements from a Towed Undulating Platform

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  October 1, 2004 ;   Ott, Michael W; Barth, John A; Erofeev, Anatoli Y;   787 words ......tethered profilers. While direct measurements of turbulence using shear probes are not possible with MicroSoar, owing to typical tow speeds of 3.5 m s^sup -1^, estimates of the turbulent dissipation rate ε can be made by first calculating Thorpe scales. MicroSoar...

West Coast Trawl Fisherman Dump 44 Percent of Fish, Observers Note.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  November 8, 1998 ;   Bernton, Hal;   787 words ......skippers typically try to target certain species by fishing with special gear, within special areas or at special depths and tow speeds. But they never know just what will come up in the net. Even species that fetch top dollar back on shore may get dumped because...

Integrated motor-drive combinations.(Statistical Data Included)

Control Engineering Europe;  February 1, 2001 ;   Bartos, Frank;   787 words ......thermal management. At high speed, a fan driven by the motor shaft provides enough cooling, but this becomes inadequate at tow speeds. This condition is exacerbated by ongoing improvements in one area of IMD performance: widening of the speed range. Today...