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  2. Floor area - Wikipedia

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    Gross leasable area (GLA) is the amount of floor space available to be rented in a commercial property. Specifically, gross leasable area is the total floor area designed for tenant occupancy and exclusive use, including any basements, mezzanines, or upper floors. It is typically expressed in square metres (although in some places such as the ...

  3. Why Biden is taking the short stairs on Air Force One - AOL

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    Trump would use shorter stairs on windy days because ‘his hair would get messed up and it would take 10 minutes to get it put back the way he wanted it,’ event planner says

  4. Watermen's stairs - Wikipedia

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    The Pelican Stairs next to the Prospect of Whitby pub in Wapping. Watermen's stairs were semipermanent structures that formed part of a complex transport network of public stairs, causeways and alleys in use from the 14th century to access the waters of the tidal River Thames in England.

  5. Dog-leg (stairs) - Wikipedia

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    A dog-leg staircase A quarter-landing, on a dog-leg staircase, is made into an architectural feature, by the use of arches, vaulting and stained glass. A dog-leg is a configuration of stairs between two floors of a building, often a domestic building, in which a flight of stairs ascends to a quarter-landing before turning at a right angle and continuing upwards. [1]

  6. Moore Stairs - Wikipedia

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    The first design for the stairs, in a drawing by the City Engineer Edward Bell in 1866, shows a single flight of "bottom block Pyrmont stones" rising to a mid-landing where the stairway divides into two and rises in separate flights to Macquarie Street. The space between the flights held a wrought iron lamp frame and gas lamp.

  7. Gravity assist - Wikipedia

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    A gravity assist, gravity assist maneuver, swing-by, or generally a gravitational slingshot in orbital mechanics, is a type of spaceflight flyby which makes use of the relative movement (e.g. orbit around the Sun) and gravity of a planet or other astronomical object to alter the path and speed of a spacecraft, typically to save propellant and reduce expense.

  8. Jet bridge - Wikipedia

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    Jet bridges at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan. A jet bridge (also termed jetway, [1] jetwalk, airgate, jetty, gangway, aerobridge/airbridge, finger, skybridge, airtube, expedited suspended passenger entry system (E-SPES), or its official industry name passenger boarding bridge (PBB)) is an enclosed, movable connector which most commonly extends from an airport terminal gate to an airplane, and ...

  9. Stoke Space - Wikipedia

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    Nova is a fully reusable medium-lift launch vehicle being developed by Stoke Space. [15] Announced in October 2023, [16] Stoke Space plans to use two stages with an expected payload capacity of 5 tons (5,000 kg) to low Earth orbit (), with the first stage performing a return-to-launch-site (RTLS) landing.