PARIS — John Galliano's departure as design director at Christian Dior brings to an end a wild fashion ride, in which grace, glamour and shock, in equal measure, sent the once conservative Parisian house leaping forward both in its image and its financial success.
A radical departure in design, the parafoil, a soft airplane-wing shape with no rigid members, used by the skydiver as a parachute, assumes its efficient flying profile entirely from the wind's inflating the air channels along the leading edge.
It diminishes with use mainly due to packing damage and its prevailing value represents the departure from design state at any instant of time.
Interface mechanics provides insight and interpolation for the observed performance of established fixations and a point of departure for design improvements.
*Barring unwarranted departures from design standards and adjusting standards only under the most rigorous safety-driven process.
Crowds of the ousted dictator's supporters stood in wait for hours outside Tora prison waiting to see him spirited away by helicopter in a deft departure, clearly designed to avoid the divisive former leader being exposed to public view.
They are functional and amphibious, as if they had time-traveled from a globally warm future-world where the weather is wet and unpredictable and people live in floating cities that look like airport departure hubs designed by Zaha Hadid.
Also complete are the larger arrivals and baggage reclaim areas and a new departure lounge designed to handle 100 passengers per hour.
With increasing penetration of intermittent renewable energy into the electricity grid, one can expect thermal power plants to be required to operate in a more dynamic fashion, with more frequent departures from design point operation.
When facing scenarios that will be sensitive to deviations from the optimal strategy, we suggest, however, preparing for likely departures by designing an intentional oversampling.
