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A Minecraft mod is a mod that changes aspects of the sandbox game Minecraft. Minecraft mods can add additional content to the game, make tweaks to specific features, and optimize performance. Thousands of mods for the game have been created, with some mods even generating an income for their authors. While Mojang Studios does not provide an API ...
This page currently focuses on one of the two historical categories of USAF wings: "AFCON" (Headquarters (US) Air Force CONtrolled) units or "permanent" units, which during the Cold War period were readily distinguished by having one, two or three digit designations, such as the 1st Fighter Wing, 60th Military Airlift Wing, 355th Fighter Wing, and could go through a series of inactivations and ...
AIM-9 Sidewinder. The AIM-9 Sidewinder ("AIM" for "Air Intercept Missile") is a short-range air-to-air missile. Entering service with the United States Navy in 1956 and the Air Force in 1964, the AIM-9 is one of the oldest, cheapest, and most successful air-to-air missiles. [3] Its latest variants remain standard equipment in most Western ...
Wings Greatest is a compilation album by the British–American rock band Wings, released in the U.K. December 1, 1978. [6] It was the band's last release through Capitol in the US. The album is notable as being the first official retrospective release from Paul McCartney's post- Beatles career. Wings Greatest was remastered and reissued in ...
The gull wing was used to improve visibility in a high wing arrangement, because such wing could be thinnest by the fuselage, and in theory should limit pilot's view no more than A-pillars of a windscreen in a car body. It was used on multiple fighter aircraft, including the PZL P.11 and Soviet Polikarpov I-15. The PZL P.11 was a further ...
Insect wing. Original veins and wing posture of a dragonfly. Hoverflies hovering to mate. A cockchafer 's hardened forewings raised, hindwings unfolding. Outstretched wing of a bumblebee. Insect wings are adult outgrowths of the insect exoskeleton that enable insects to fly. They are found on the second and third thoracic segments (the ...
Wings. Wings is a freeware video game (originally shareware) created by Miika Virpioja. A 2D, DOS -based computer game with space ships that behave like lunar landers. The player can select one of 33 weapons, and the surroundings can be destroyed. The game includes multiplayer capabilities, either through linked PCs or two or more players using ...
Wing clipping is the process of trimming a bird's primary wing feathers or remiges so that it is not fully flight-capable, until it moults, sheds the cut feathers and grows new ones. This procedure is usually carried out by avian veterinarians, breeders, or the bird's owners, and primarily on pet birds like parrots.