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    A fly system, or theatrical rigging system, is a system of ropes, pulleys, counterweights and related devices within a theater that enables a stage crew...
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    Fly-by-wire (FBW) is a system that replaces the conventional manual flight controls of an aircraft with an electronic interface. The movements of flight...
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    A fly crew is a group of people who are in charge of maintaining and operating the fly system during theatre production. A member of a fly crew is also...
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  • stagehand work area. Wings also contain technical equipment, such as the fly system. In the dressing room there is a makeup bench, chairs and mirrors. The...
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  • The No Fly List, maintained by the United States federal government's Threat Screening Center (TSC), is one of several lists used by the Transportation...
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  • computer's memory. Switching programs or applications on the fly in multi-tasking operating systems means the ability to switch between native and/or emulated...
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    pteron "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced mechanosensory organs known as...
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    Front curtain (category Fly system)
    both. Some types open with the full curtain rising out, either via a fly system or by gathering upwards with lines; other types part in the centre and...
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    Catwalk (theater) (category Fly system)
    A catwalk may also be placed upstage of the proscenium as part of the fly system. These may be fixed, or they may be able to be raised and lowered. In...
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    Theater drapes and stage curtains (category Fly system)
    drapes are typically suspended from battens and can be controlled by a fly system (i.e., they are "flown," in theater terminology). When a drape is flown...
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    Batten (theater) (category Fly system)
    lowered to the stage (flown in) or raised into a fly tower above the stage (flown out) by a fly system. An electric is a batten that incorporates electrical...
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    Amanita muscaria (redirect from Fly agaric)
    Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita, is a basidiomycete fungus of the genus Amanita. It is a large white-gilled, white-spotted...
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    sandbags. The supporting grid in the fly loft was constructed of heavy wood timbers. Stagehands operated that fly system from a gallery located stage right...
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  • also refer to: Fly, Ohio, U.S. Fly, Tennessee, U.S. Fly River (or the Fly), New Guinea Fly (artist), comic book artist and illustrator Fly (gamer), Israeli...
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    Traveler curtain (redirect from Fly curtain)
    style curtains can also be raised and lowered by a fly system, in which case they are referred to as fly curtains or, less frequently, guillotine curtains...
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    Rope lock (category Fly system)
    In a theater fly system, a rope lock is a device used to prevent a rope, and the line set it controls, from moving. A rope lock is controlled by a steel...
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  • Majikaru Batoru Arīna) is a crossover third-person shooter game developed by Fly-System in 2008. The game features characters from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha...
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  • similar to a fly system lifts seats into the projection of a film to create the illusion of flight. The other version uses a motion system-based platform...
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    DragonFly BSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system forked from FreeBSD 4.8. Matthew Dillon, an Amiga developer in the late 1980s and early...
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    FLY is a family of phenethylamine and benzofuran psychedelics possessing a benzodifuran or similar ring system. The FLY drugs were so-named because of...
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  • Vkernel (category DragonFly BSD)
    and compartmentalisation of system resources. It is used by DragonFly BSD in its vkernel implementation since DragonFly 1.7, having been first revealed...
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    Parker Fly was a model of electric guitar built by Parker Guitars. It was designed by Ken Parker and Larry Fishman, and first produced in 1993. The Fly is...
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    in a large delta. The Fly–Strickland River system has a total length of 1,220 km (760 mi), making it the longest river system of an island in the world...
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  • Fly by wire, Fly-by-wire or Fly by Wire may refer to: Fly-by-wire (FBW), electronic flight control system Fly by Wire (album), an album by Someone Still...
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  • takes place in a theatre, and typically involves the theatre's permanent fly system. The other in an arena or "exposed structure venue" such as a convention...
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  • The FireFly Acoustic Threat Detection System is a system for detecting hostile fire. It has been developed jointly by the US Army Aviation and Missile...
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  • and operation of Fly system scenery or flying of performers and mechanised scenic elements. Carpenter (theatre) Counterweight fly system - Rail (theater)...
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  • usched". DragonFly System Calls Manual. DragonFly BSD. Retrieved 2019-07-28. "kern/kern_usched.c § sys_usched_set". BSD Cross Reference. DragonFly BSD. Retrieved...
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  • In technical theater, spot rigging is the practice of using a fly system to fly something specific for a show which does not use the venue's standard...
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  • FreeBSD jail (category DragonFly BSD)
    future descendants". DragonFly On-Line Manual Pages. "jail(8) — manage system jails". FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD. "jail -- manage system jails". FreeBSD Manual...
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