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This became unaffordable and impractical during the Cold War when aircraft and missile systems became common. The new approach was to build distributed systems that continue to work when components are damaged. This depends upon very crude forms of artificial intelligence ...

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...n objectives and altitude, [[spaceflight]] using this form of [[spacecraft propulsion]] is theorized to be significantly less expensive than spaceflight using [[ ...arious purposes, including research into [[Momentum exchange tether|tether propulsion]], [[Gravity-gradient stabilization|tidal stabilization]] and orbital plasm ...

...last=Froude |first=Robert |date=12 April 1889 |title=On the Part Played in Propulsion by Differences in Fluid Pressure |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i ...lar co-ordinate axis, such as the z-axis. Thus the velocity may consist of components in the axes that make up the co-ordinate system. For this analysis, we will ...

laser fusion components,<ref name="forsman" /> and [[printed circuit board#Drilling|printed circuit ...ovias in epoxy-glass printed circuit boards | journal=IEEE Transactions on Components, Hybrids, and Manufacturing Technology | publisher=Institute of Electrical ...

...control|the use in psychology|Attitude change|attitude control of aircraft|Aircraft flight dynamics}} Many spacecraft have components that require articulation or pointing. [[Voyager program|Voyager]] and ''[[ ...

...auled (right) and down wind (left).jpg|thumb|right|300px|Aerodynamic force components for two points of sail. <br />''Left-hand boat'': Down wind with stalled ai ...e sail, lift diminishes and drag increases as the predominant component of propulsion. For a given true wind velocity over the surface, a sail can propel a craft ...

...ions and are the primary power supply for [[vehicle]]s such as [[cars]], [[aircraft]] and [[boats]]. ICEs are typically powered by [[hydrocarbon]]-based fuels ...led rocket. In 1939, the [[Heinkel He 178]] became the world's first [[jet aircraft]]. ...

According to P. L. Lindley, an engineer at the US [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]], the flip-flop types detailed below (SR, D, T, JK) were first ...50566|title=High-speed printing system|pubdate=1958-09-02|assign1=[[Hughes Aircraft Co.]]|inventor1-last=Nelson|inventor1-first=Eldred C.|quote = Each flip-flo ...

...ring of air [[flight]] capable machines, and the techniques of operating [[aircraft]] and rockets within the [[atmosphere]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Entropol |tit ...nvironments include, but are not limited to: science platform aircraft and aircraft-deployable systems; [[space vehicle]]s, [[space station]]s, habitats and lu ...

...mization]]. There are economies to be made from [[mass production]] of the components, but each building comes with its own requirements like different number of ...eparate machine rooms are designed so that most of their power and control components fit within the hoistway (the shaft containing the elevator car), and a smal ...

...cloud cover}} or that the clouds are sufficiently high so as not to impede aircraft operation by {{gli|visual flight rules}}.}} ...] line-vortex instability most commonly observed in the skies behind large aircraft such as the [[Boeing 747]]. It occurs when the [[wingtip vortices]] interac ...

...ical operation that expresses a signal in time as the sum of its frequency components.}} ...d along the circuit, as in a transmission line, not concentrated in lumped components.}} ...

...viving [[atmospheric entry]] can be collected by high (~20&nbsp;km) flying aircraft. [[Donald E. Brownlee]] identified reliably the extraterrestrial nature of ...le constituent, along with [[Sulfur|sulphurous]] and [[potassium]]-bearing components that demonstrated their relation to Jupiter's volcanic moon, [[Io (moon)|Io ...

# ''[[Structural element|structural components]]'' such as frame members, [[Bearing (mechanical)|bearings]], [[axle]]s, [[ # ''[[Control system|control components]]'' such as buttons, switches, indicators, sensors, actuators and computer ...

*[[Tractor configuration|Aircraft with tractor configuration propeller]]: the world's first [[airplane]] havi ...rico Forlanini]] in Milan. This has represented the first heavier-than-air aircraft lifting from the ground with autonomous means.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ww ...