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Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈ iː l ɒ n /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and investor.He is the founder, chairman, CEO, and CTO of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO, product architect, and former chairman of Tesla, Inc.; owner, executive chairman, and CTO of X Corp.; founder of The Boring Company and xAI; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; and president of the Musk Foundation.
Pierpoint Landing was a sportfishing, eating and entertainment complex located at the end of Pier A in Long Beach, California, and what is now Pier F. In operation from 1948 to 1972, it was at one time the largest sportfishing operation in the world, attracting two million anglers annually. The facility comprised several kiddie rides, a seal ...
Ballooning (pitch-induced bounced landing) [1] – happens due combination of pitch motion during touchdown and elastic reactions of chassis struts. Can be induced by pilot inputs or ground roughness, and can happen even at normal landing speed. Porpoising (runaway bounced landing) [2] – repeated bouncing with bouncing amplitude increasing ...
Takeoff. Takeoff is the phase of flight in which an aircraft goes through a transition from moving along the ground ( taxiing) to flying in the air, usually starting on a runway. For balloons, helicopters and some specialized fixed-wing aircraft ( VTOL aircraft such as the Harrier ), no runway is needed. Takeoff is the opposite of landing .
Microwave landing system. The microwave landing system ( MLS) is an all-weather, precision radio guidance system intended to be installed at large airports to assist aircraft in landing, including 'blind landings'. MLS enables an approaching aircraft to determine when it is aligned with the destination runway and on the correct glidepath for a ...
Knights Landing (formerly, Baltimore and East Grafton) is a census-designated place in Yolo County, California, United States, founded by William Knight. It is located on the Sacramento River around 25 miles northwest of Sacramento in the northeastern portion of the county. Knights Landing's ZIP Code is 95645 and its area code 530. It lies at ...
The Landing, by Iron Savior, 2011 "Landing", a song by Golden Earring from the 1969 album Eight Miles High; Landing, a series of arcade flight simulator video games; Places. Landing, New Jersey, U.S. The Landing (Antarctica), a large flat snowfield in the upper Skelton Glacier; The Landing (Kansas City), Missouri, U.S., a shopping mall
Captain Cook's Landing Place, Town of Seventeen Seventy. / -24.161; 151.8865. Cook's Landing Place is a heritage-listed site at Seventeen Seventy, Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. It is named after British explorer Lieutenant James Cook who landed there on 24 May 1770. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 27 March 1996.