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  2. Hawker Siddeley HS 748 - Wikipedia

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    BAe ATP. The Hawker Siddeley HS 748 (formerly Avro HS 748) is a medium-sized turboprop airliner originally designed and initially produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Avro. It was the last aircraft to be developed by Avro prior to its absorption into Hawker Siddeley. The HS 748 was developed during the late 1950s as a move to re-orient ...

  3. Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar - Wikipedia

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    The Avrocar S/N 58-7055 (marked AV-7055) on its rollout. The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar was a VTOL aircraft developed by Avro Canada as part of a secret U.S. military project carried out in the early years of the Cold War. [1] [2] The Avrocar intended to exploit the Coandă effect to provide lift and thrust from a single "turborotor" blowing ...

  4. Avro Shackleton - Wikipedia

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    Produced. 1951–1958. Number built. 185. Developed from. Avro Lincoln. The Avro Shackleton is a British long-range maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) which was used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the South African Air Force (SAAF). It was developed by Avro from the Avro Lincoln bomber, which itself had been a development of the famous wartime ...

  5. Avro Canada Orenda - Wikipedia

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    Number built. 4000+. Developed from. Avro Canada Chinook. The Avro Canada TR5 Orenda was the first production jet engine from Avro Canada 's Gas Turbine Division. Similar to other early jet engines in design, like the Rolls-Royce Avon or General Electric J47 . Over 4,000 Orendas of various marks were delivered during the 1950s.

  6. Apache Tomcat - Wikipedia

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    Apache Tomcat (called "Tomcat" for short) is a free and open-source implementation of the Jakarta Servlet, Jakarta Expression Language, and WebSocket technologies. [2] It provides a "pure Java" HTTP web server environment in which Java code can also run. Thus it is a Java web application server, although not a full JEE application server.

  7. Lockheed C-5 Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    Produced. C-5A: 1968–1973. C-5B: 1985–1989. Number built. 131 (C-5A: 81, C-5B: 50) The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is a large military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed, and now maintained and upgraded by its successor, Lockheed Martin. It provides the United States Air Force (USAF) with a heavy intercontinental-range strategic ...

  8. The Aviator (2004 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Aviator is a 2004 American epic biographical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by John Logan. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn, and Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner. The supporting cast features Ian Holm, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law, Gwen Stefani, Kelli Garner, Matt ...

  9. Apache HBase - Wikipedia

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    Apache HBase. HBase is an open-source non-relational distributed database modeled after Google's Bigtable and written in Java. It is developed as part of Apache Software Foundation 's Apache Hadoop project and runs on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) or Alluxio, providing Bigtable-like capabilities for Hadoop.