towline

We attached the tow-line to the truck while the priest settled himself at the controls of his gyrocopter, which was little more than a chair with a rudder and long, drooping rotor blades which had to be set in motion before the girls and I leapt into the truck and began to drive faster and faster until at last, the giant insect-like contraption rose out of the dust and began its horrifyingly rapid ascent.

When the volunteers located the lurching boat they strapped a tow-line to it but this snapped.

The sprinkler system on the track is a tow-line system, which sprays most of its water into the centre of the track, leaving the narrow strips near the stands' rails and the far rails more parched, and consequently quicker, than the rest.

The Birmingham Post, January 197750 Years Ago It was learned in Falmouth last night that the efforts to re-secure the tow-line between the British tug Turmoil and the crippled and listing American freighter Flying Enterprise had so far been unsuccessful.

In spite of early tow-line problems, the Navy is moving toward having a full-up Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures (IDECM) system available by FY03, building on the Kosovo experience with the ALE-50(V), which Grieco called "a real success story." IDECM funding and procurement lag, however.

The tow-line of connection (and here I should mention her brother in Africa)

More familiar materials handling equipment, such as a power-and-free conveyor for the paint shop and in-floor tow-line conveyors, were brought ha too, striking the right balance between flexibility and productivity.

So, the new design has a tow line with the fiber-optic and copper signal line wrapped around it helically so as to provide for tow-line stretching and contraction.

This is where a Mil-Std-1553B data bus contained in the tow-line umbilical comes into play.

If travel distances regularly exceed approximately 300 ft, tow tractors and trailers, or, if the load destinations are permanently fixed, in-floor tow-line conveyors are two good materials handling methods.

It integrates microcomputers and bar code readers with a tow-line conveyor system for automatic identification and control of the warehousing and shipping functions.

In a corresponding computer simulation, the decoy effectiveness was measured in terms of miss distances versus initial attack angle, for parameters such as: decoy ERP (power x boresight antenna gain), tow-line length and its relative orientation, the speed and radar cross section of the target, missile characteristics and associated receiver, decoy antenna pattern, initial missile to target range, etc.

"For instance, the bold and simple design and layout of the historic machinery, the dated name plaque, the neatly dressed and coped walls, the rope marks and protective metalwork rubbing strips on the bridge stonework (to deflect tow-lines) and the original brickwork.

The 6,347-tonne rig sent out an SOS after tug tow-lines snapped in heavy seas.

It still has some of the original historic mechanism and rope marks created by the tow-lines between the boats and the horses that pulled them.