Wikipedia:Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences/Transport
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Airline Reliability Statistics & History - compared numbers of crashes, casualties, maintenance track records, etc. For example, Wall Street Journal, March 19, 2007, has a table of fatal accidents by airline region
Airport Trucks - Cadbury advert sequel to Gorilla; in context it is relevant to here
Aer Lingus Flight 328 - A Short 360 which crashed on approach to Leicestershire, England on 31th January 1986;
Jacob Brodbeck - Educator and aviation pioneer. Jacob Friedrich Brodbeck (1821–1910) :He built a heavier-than-air plane about 40 years before the Wright brothers did. See See also the article on this man in the German Wikipedia.
Catalog of Aircraft Specifications - a ist of aircraft and their specifications including operating costs and noise footprint if possible; ideally, this would be formatted using a standard template so easy comparisons could be made; can we use XML?; for a start, see List of aircraft
Duncan Aviation, Inc. - the largest remaining family-owned business aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) organization in the world;
Earthrounders - aviation "Earthrounders" ; are "pilots who have flown around the world in light aircraft." Perhaps there is only enough information for a stub, but the article on commercial astronaut Mike Melville states that he is one, but the link for it simply says that the article was deleted, and I had to go outside of the Wikipedia to find out what that is.
Home Establishment - Royal Flying Corps/Royal Naval Air Service/Royal Air Force "home base" in Britain during World War I; Brit pilots often rotated there after combat role, as instructor
infeasible yield - infeasible-yield impact as such due to an airline schedule disruption
Loop belt - belt that holds infants (up to two years) on an adult's lap; current EU-regulation allow its use from 15 July 2008 onwards; some German sources say it is unsafe and suggest that it could actually increase injuries during an accident
Regional Air Mobility - an emerging aviation market developing electric, autonomous aircraft to revitalize regional air travel
RSBN Russian civilian and military radio navigation system, there's articles on the Russian, Czech and German wikis about it.ru, cs & de Now redirects to Right Side Broadcasting Network
snowclo - an aviation term to mean that an airport is closed to air traffic due to snow
Steve Fossett's hot-air balloon flights - perhaps that isn't the ideal title, but he has made many more flights (and set more records?) than the two listed in his article
Triad Bridge, Millville, Massachusetts - A 3-tier bridge, never completed, that would have carried 3 railroads across the Blackstone River. Apparently 1 active, and 1 uncompleted 2-tier, bridge remains today.
PLM 242.AT 4-8-4T Tank Engine - One of the few examples of a 4-8-4 Northern-type tank engine, it was a unique and elegant solution to the demands of the Parisian Suburban Express trains of the late 20's and 30's.
High Desert Corridor - Proposed high-speed rail line in the High Desert region of Southern California.
Pier railway – A light railway (onto and) on a pier. "Pier railway" is the most established general term for such railways. Synonyms include pier train, pier tramway and pier tram. An article about a specific well-known pier railway, the Southend Pier Railway, already exists, but an article on pier railways in general does not. A category for pier railways does exist.
Amectran Exar-1 - electric vehicle; Amectran is the manufacturer, and has no corresponding article currently. Exar-1 is their most notable vehicle for its nearness to production and publication. Amectran.com has several scanned in articles/memos from various sources for use as references. The majority of the site is unsubstantiated opinions and has no place on wikipedia, but a formal presentation and discussion should be had
Hunting gearset, a type of gearset where the gear ratio is chosen to avoid the wear problem of the same gear teeth on a gear always interfacing to the same teeth on the facing gear.
Toyota Semibon - commercial van currently in production with unknown specifications and information; I am unsure who requested this article but please see talk page.JZP709 (talk) 15:02, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Toyota X-car - a group of saloons produced by Toyota from the late 60's to present including (but not limited to) the Toyota Altezza, Chaser, Corona, Cressida, Cresta, Mark II, Mark X and more.
Kutsuplus - An existing minibus system in Helsinky, Finland. Passengers request an origin and destination with their smartphone, then a computer system calculates an optimized traject to serve several passengers with the same minibus. https://kutsuplus.fi/home
Astons Coaches - a bus company opearting in the midlands, England
East End Bus Lines - Bus Company operating in Staten Island , and has a partner company (Montauk Student Transport in the Bronx/Montauk Transit Service in New Jersey). https://www.eastendbus.com/
L-track - Also called logistic track, airline track or seat track (because it originated as a way to attach seats to airplanes) is a widely-used tie-down system for truck beds and other vehicle floors.
International Pacific Highway - expedition started in 1930 for a proposed highway along the west coast of the Americas; from the United States through Mexico and Central America; possibly started by the American Automobile Association (AAA) auto club
Bride (car seat) or Bride (company) or Bride (brand) - famous brand of car seats from Japan; commonly associated with the JDM and drifting scene. (ja:ブリッド) Bride is also created an another car bucket seat brand, called Edirb.
MonoRover or IO HAWK or PhunkeeDuck or EROVER, basically any of these new small self balancing electric scooters that look like Segways without the handlebars. Or an article about the general category, let's call it Self balancing scooter.
Echolance - it will be very difficult to find information about this spacecraft: "The Echolance is a type of spacecraft designed in 1949 by a Dr. Robert Duncan-Enzmann. It is a presumably feasible concept, but little else is available on the subject.", from Shortopedia; other potential source only repeat this information; Xionbox₪ 12:06, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
I understand that I should not add the names of Firewheel , MARECS-B, or Sirio-2 on the page https://en.wikipedia.orghttps://wiki90.com/en/Category:Satellite_launch_failures . I should rather create 3 new articles and then insert those new pages... But... it is "too much" for a "modestly experienced" WP French contributor... like me! So Good Luck.... in trying to find the "good guys" who could collect and handle this... "bottle in the sea", in order to complete the job ! R. Zaharia
Triton Ocean World Surveyor is currently a redirect to a stub on another page of a Neptune Mission. I think it's worthy enough to be it's own article, Due to heavy focus on Triton instead of Neptune with it's own goals. I have also made a template of it on my Sandbox page, So feel free to take a look at it hereIowaBird (talk) 08:37, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
Trajectories
Water transport
Ships and boats
Ahoy Club - Digital platform for charterers to find a vessel and for owners to manage their yacht’s schedule ()
Air-lubricated hull or Air-lubricated vessel - it became apparent to me at a recent Afd for the Mitsubishi system proprietary system that we have at least three commercial systems and could use a generic main article. Ice breakers use air bubbling too -- but I can't say if it should be included in a main article or not. See: , and on the science,
Alan Woods MBE b. 1937, Founder of Woods' Silver Fleet Co-founder of Thames Clippers Past Master of the company of Watermen & Lightermen, Extra Waterman to HM the Queen, Awarded MBE for service to River Travel March 2020, Opened Woods Quay, London's largest private mooring in August 2020 Lifetime achievement award from Thames Passenger Boat Association 'Architect of the Modern Passenger Boat Industry'. Vessels designed and constructed 61m Silver Sturgeon, Silver Barracuda, Silver Dolphin, Silver Marlin, Silver Bonito, Silver Sockeye and Thames Clippers catamarans.
Caper Cat 14 - A popular 14' sailing catamaran designed in Queensland, Australia, intended for island hopping and short camping trips. Similar to Hobie 14.
SS Cimbria- A German ocean liner that sank on January 19, 1883 with the loss of about four hundred lives. Currently the only article is a mention in List of shipwrecks in January 1883
Commercial Maritime Code - 18 different maritime signal flags created by the British Board of Trade in 1857
Fraser Yachts - international yacht brokerage specialising in yachts for sale, yacht charters and superyacht management ()
Freak Ship - proposed mass production of WWII-era single-journey, flat-bottom cargo ships powered by automobile engines; NZ Evening Post, 13 August 1941. Volume CXXXII, Issue 38
Hawster - part of a brigantine and/or a sailing ship
HMS Firequeen - described as special service vessel, Portsmouth harbour pendant 5 (1914); M/V Bahamian ex Firebird ex Firequeen ex Candace, 1882-c.1950 served as freighter and lighthouse tender in Bahamas; 1882 Type: Special Service Vessel - Steam Yacht; Purchased 1882 ; Displacement: 446 tons 26 Jun 1897 Present at the Naval Review at Spithead in celebration of the Diamond Jubilee. 1914 Portsmouth; Fire Queen, 1847 Type: Tender ; displacement: 466 tons Propulsion: Paddle (; ; ; )
Saique - Type of boat; 17th century Turkish coaster used in the Levant. Only one known contemporary image, drawn by Lt. Henri Sbonski De Pessebon.
Willing to write article, but I don't know how to do Wiki Edits.
Shipboard fire - historically the most-feared threat aboard a ship; could discuss how risk has been mitigated over the centuries, and notable shipboard fire casualties; List of fires#Ship fires
Seawolf Yacht - privately-owned luxury motor yacht built by J&k Smit that once served in the U.S. Navy as a tug boat; currently registered in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean ()
Port Community System - electronic platform that connects the multiple systems operated by a variety of organizations that make up a seaport or airport community ()
Woods Quay - Central London's longest private pier. Replacing Savoy Pier. Completed during 2020 lockdown. Named after Alan Woods MBE. Owned and managed by Woods' Silver Fleet. Restoring the site of original Victorian steamship pier within Victoria Embankment designed by Sir Joseph Bazalegtte.
Speed records
PWC speed record - Waverunner/JetSki/PWC current speed record holder; believe it is held by a man named something Malone
ship's speeds - maybe not the right title; there is already an article about flank speed but nothing explaining, for example, the difference between standard and full, flank and emergency, etc.; see Talk:flank speed
shipping marks - marks to identify the goods or cargoes so that goods can be identified easily and faster
Stamford Towing & Roadside Assistance - Stamford Towing & Roadside Assistance 47 Halloween Blvd #101, Stamford CT 06902 (203) 408-1505 We provide transportation of broken-down vehicles using hauling as a method of transport
U-boat Worx - seems to be company making small submarines;
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