High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Usability is the ease of use and learnability of a human-made object. The object of use can be a software application, website, book, tool, machine, process, or anything a human interacts with. A usability study may be conducted as a primary job function by a usability analyst or as a secondary job function by designers, technical writers, marketing personnel, and others. It is widely used in consumer electronics, communication, and knowledge transfer objects (such as a cookbook, a document or online help) and mechanical objects such as a door handle or a hammer.

ISBN: 978-5-5110-8156-4

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hunter-Killer is an unofficial project name based upon an Aviation Week Space Technology article. When USAF releases an official name, this article will be renamed to suit.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The United States Air Force Stability and Control Digital DATCOM is a computer program that implements the methods contained in the USAF Stability and Control DATCOM to calculate the static stability, control and dynamic derivative characteristics of fixed-wing aircraft. Digital DATCOM requires an input file containing a geometric description of an aircraft, and outputs its corresponding dimensionless stability derivatives according to the specified flight conditions. The values obtained can be used to calculate meaningful aspects of flight dynamics.

ISBN: 978-5-5118-1914-3

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This list contains Personal protective equipment sorted by body area.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Algonquin was an ocean liner built in 1926 for the Clyde Mallory Line. She was involved in a collision in 1929 and rescued survivors from another in 1935. Repaired after a fire in 1940, she was requisitioned for use as a troopship and later a hospital ship. She served until 1946 when she was laid up, finally being scrapped in 1957.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USAir Flight 1493 was a scheduled United States (US) domestic passenger flight from Syracuse Hancock International Airport, New York to San Francisco International Airport, California that collided with SkyWest Flight 5569 upon landing at a scheduled stopover at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The evening of Friday, February 1, 1991, saw slow to moderate air traffic at LAX, but as the USAir 737 was on final approach, there were a series of abnormalities that occurred to distract the local controller, including an aircraft that inadvertently switched off the tower frequency and a misplaced flight progress strip which resulted in the SkyWest Metroliner being told to taxi into takeoff...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USAT Brigadier General M. G. Zalinski was a U.S. Army transport ship that served in both World War I and World War II. It sank in 1946 in the Grenville Channel in British Columbia`s Inside Passage. The crew were rescued by a tug boat and the SS Catala passenger steamer, but the cargo of bombs and oil went down with the ship. As of June 2006, planning is underway by Canadian officials to deal with the wreck, located near the site of the ferry MV Queen of the North which sank in February 2006.

ISBN: 978-5-5118-2122-1

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USAT J. W. McAndrew was a Type C3-P C troop ship for the United States Army during World War II.

ISBN: 978-5-5118-2221-1

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John L. Clem began her service life as the United States Navy troop transport USS Santa Ana (ID-2869). Between the wars she served as a commercial ocean liner under various names. In 1941 she was acquired by the U.S. Army and assigned the name USAT John L. Clem, about which time she was also briefly assigned a US Navy ID, AP-36. She did not serve with the Navy however, and spent most of the war as an Army transport until being converted into a hospital ship, the USAHS John L. Clem.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The General Frank M. Coxe is a steam ferry which was built for the United States Army to provide transportation services among several military facilities which ring California`s San Francisco Bay.

ISBN: 978-5-5118-2151-1

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thomas H. Barry was a troop transport that served with the U.S. Army during World War II. Intended for transfer to the United States Navy and assigned the hull number AP-45, she never served in that role but stayed an army troopship. Prior to her war service, she served for 11 years as the ocean liner SS Oriente.

ISBN: 978-5-5118-2403-1

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The USAT Meigs, a United States Army transport vessel (sometimes incorrectly referred to as the USS Meigs), was sunk in Darwin Harbour during the first Japanese air raid against the Australia mainland on 19 February 1942.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The United States Army Transportation Corps (USATC) S200 Class is a class of 2-8-2 steam locomotive. They were introduced in 1941 and lent-leased to the United Kingdom for use in the Middle East during the Second World War.

ISBN: 978-5-5118-2426-0

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The United States Army Transportation Corps S160 Class is a class of 2-8-0 Consolidation steam locomotive designed for use in Europe during World War II for heavy freight work. A total of 2,120 were built and they worked on railroads across the world, including Africa, Asia, all of Europe and South America.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The United States Army Transportation Corps (USATC) S100 Class is a 0-6-0 steam locomotive that was designed for switching (shunting) duties in Europe and North Africa during World War II. Several were later used on railways in Austria, Great Britain, France, Greece, Italy, Yugoslavia, Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Israel and China.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The USB mass storage device class, otherwise known as USB MSC or UMS, is a protocol that allows a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device to become accessible to a host computing device, to enable file transfers between the two. To the host device, the USB device appears similar to an external hard drive, enabling drag-and-drop file transfers.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 38 ft (11.6 m) Deployable Pursuit Boat (DPB) gives the United States Coast Guard a new capability in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific. About 85% of the cocaine smuggled through those areas travels on "go-fasts", 30 to 40 ft (9 to 12 m) high speed craft which each carry 1,000 to 2,000 kg of illegal narcotics. Working with other Coast Guard assets, DPB crews will be able to intercept and board "go-fasts", and significantly reduce the flow of drugs through the transit zone.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The United States Coast Guard commissioned a new Keeper-class of coastal buoy tenders in the 1990s that are 175 feet (53 m) in length and named after Lighthouse keepers.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Mojave was launched by the Union Construction Co., Oakland, California on 7 September 1921 as a United States Coast Guard cutter. She was sponsored by Miss Elizabeth Haske of Oakland and commissioned at Oakland on 12 December 1921.

ISBN: 978-5-5125-1458-0

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USCGC Tampa (Coast Guard Cutter No. 48) was a United States Coast Guard Cutter that served in the United States Coast Guard from 1921 to 1941, and then went on to serve in the United States Navy from 1941 to 1947.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USCGC Chincoteague (WAVP-375), later WHEC-375, was a Casco-class United States Coast Guard Cutter in service from 1949 to 1972.

ISBN: 978-5-5137-4912-7

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USCGC Absecon (WAVP-374), later WHEC-374, was a Casco-class United States Coast Guard Cutter in service from 1949 to 1972.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USCGC Gresham (WAVP-387), later WHEC-387, later WAGW-387, was a Casco-class United States Coast Guard Cutter in service from 1947 to 1973.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USCGC Madrona (WLB 302) was a U. S. Coast Guard 180 foot seagoing buoy tender. Madrona was built by the Zenith Dredge Company of Duluth, MN at a cost of $949,144.

ISBN: 978-5-5118-3202-9