• The flame-start system is a cold start aid for starting diesel engines at low ambient temperatures. It reduces the white smoke emission after the engine...
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  • Safety components include flame traps, to prevent air line explosions, a turning gear interlock which ensures that air-start cannot be initiated when the...
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    use starting-aid devices such as glowplugs. Engines with a displacement of more than one litre per cylinder usually incorporate a flame-start system rather...
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    Starter (engine) (redirect from Crank start)
    This is one way of starting an engine of a car with stop-start system. Aircraft engine starter Coffman starter Flame-start system Hucks starter Hybrid...
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  • Flaming (Internet) (redirect from Flame war)
    in the Eighties, where the start of a flame was sometimes indicated by typing "FLAME ON", then "FLAME OFF" when the flame section of the post was complete...
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    Flame retardants are a diverse group of chemicals that are added to manufactured materials, such as plastics and textiles, and surface finishes and coatings...
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  • flame detector is a sensor designed to detect and respond to the presence of a flame or fire, allowing flame detection. Responses to a detected flame...
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    A flame holder is a component of a jet engine used as an ignitor to help maintain continual combustion. In a scramjet engine the residence time of the...
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  • Twin Flames Universe (TFU) is an American cult run by Jeff and Shaleia Divine. The group's practices, based on elements of New Age spiritualism regarding...
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    Fractal flames are a member of the iterated function system class of fractals created by Scott Draves in 1992. Draves' open-source code was later ported...
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    whilst larger heavy-duty engines have flame-start systems. The minimum starting temperature that allows starting without pre-heating is 40 °C (104 °F)...
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  • Flameout (redirect from Flame out)
    engine control systems usually provide a continuous ignition function. Ignitors are normally used only at engine start, until the flame in the combustion...
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    reliability. Early piston engines were started by hand. Geared hand starting, electrical and cartridge-operated systems for larger engines were developed between...
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    potential in transport and other applications. In detonative combustion, the flame front expands at supersonic speed. It is theoretically up to 25% more efficient...
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    Fire (redirect from Open flame)
    products. Flames, the most visible portion of the fire, are produced in the combustion reaction when the fuel reaches its ignition point. Flames from hydrocarbon...
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    Flamethrower (redirect from Flame thrower)
    ignition systems: A simple type is an electrically heated wire coil; another used a small pilot flame, fueled with pressurized gas from the system. Flamethrowers...
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  • Coffman engine starter (category Starting systems)
    engine starting Air-start system Isopropyl nitrate - A monopropellant fuel used to power AVPIN turbojet starter motors. Components of jet engines Flame holder...
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    Blue Flame is a rocket-powered land speed racing vehicle that was driven by Gary Gabelich and achieved a world land speed record on Bonneville Salt Flats...
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    A flame tank is a type of tank equipped with a flamethrower, most commonly used to supplement combined arms attacks against fortifications, confined spaces...
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    Chaos Game on a General Iterated Function System Draves, Scott; Erik Reckase (July 2007). "The Fractal Flame Algorithm" (PDF). Archived from the original...
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    The flame thrower tank M67 (also known as M67 "Zippo", nicknamed after a popular brand of cigarette lighter) is an American flame tank that was briefly...
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  • Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame is a 1993 cinematic platform game released by Broderbund for the MS-DOS, and later ported to Macintosh, Super...
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  • maximize part-load efficiency, multiple turbines can be started or stopped as needed in an integrated system. Reciprocating engines can react quickly to power...
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  • towers known as "rainbirds" onto the launch platform and flame trench below, emptying the system in 41 seconds with a peak flow of reducing acoustic energy...
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    to the spacecraft, including the loading of crew. The pad may contain a flame deflection structure to prevent the intense heat of the rocket exhaust from...
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  • The Flame Trench. Retrieved May 16, 2025 – via YouTube. NASASpaceflight (February 3, 2025). Pad B's Major Milestones: Chopsticks, Tank Farm, and Flame Trench...
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  • February 2019. Zitun , Yoav (6 March 2018). "'Sharp Flame': Rafael's new rocket precision guidance system". Ynetnews. Retrieved 4 June 2018. The bomb in the...
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    provided by a separate engine, to create jet thrust. Other types use a system that functions similarly to the afterburner (reheat) on a conventional jet...
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    propane/oxygen flame burns at about 2,526 K (2,253 °C; 4,087 °F), an oxyhydrogen flame burns at 3,073 K (2,800 °C; 5,072 °F) and an acetylene/oxygen flame burns...
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    Other flame stabilization techniques make use of flame holders, which vary in design from combustor cans to flat plates, to shelter the flame and improve...
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