Scenes are constructed as if they're part of a stage production, the soundtrack is clunky and filled with maddeningly obvious choices (Chapel of Love for the wedding? Check) and the production design is strangely glossy, making us feel as if we're killing time at the swinging 60s wing of a theme park.
The abdomen swings, wing motions, and the variations in body angle are recorded by a high-speed camera when locusts free fall in air with normal or upside-down initial posture.
In the opening round, Rousey and Tate both came out swinging, exchanging winging punches with Rousey going for the clinch and getting a throw for a takedown.
Between 1970 and 1973, as an interim measure pending the long-delayed delivery of the General Dynamics F-111C swing-wing bomber, No. 82 Wing operated leased McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantoms.
Variable geometry (swing) wings can vary the sweep (i.e., the angle of a wing with respect to the plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the craft) of their wings in flight.
The Cook encountered a flight of two Russian swing-wing Su-24 bombers that came within 30 feet of the destroyer's rear deck and the U.S. aircraft was on a "routine" mission when a Su-27 barrel rolled over it from wingtip to wingtip.
Its notable achievements since its founding in 1929 included the design and manufacture of such aircraft as the Hellcat, which was widely used in World War II, the lunar module that helped place a man on the moon in 1969, and the F-14 Tomcat, the first swing-wing aircraft put into production.
New swing-wing model with purely electric high-tech drive system: Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG with electric drive – the exciting future of the super sports car.
The MiG-23 was much faster and had a modern, swing-wing design, but the pilot sat in a narrow, cramped cockpit with poor rear view.
But his most challenging work would come in the following decades – taking the bureau's designs into cutting-edge areas like swing-wings and edge-of-space flight.
At the recent 2014 Pioneers Festival in Vienna, we caught up with the founders of Aeromobil, Stefan Klein and Juraj Vaculik, who unveiled version 3.0 of their swing-wing, six-meter-long steel and carbon-fiber flying car.
