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Much of the forwardstrakeis designed to meet minimum gage requirements.
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These include stalling, high-lift devices including ' flexible ' variable-geometry systems, boundary-layer control, jet flaps, buffeting, supercritical aerofoils, wave drag in supersonic flight, blunt trailing edges and wing-body strakes.
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There was also a long, shallowstrakeover the rear fuselage.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The armored belt was arrayed in two strakes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It was moved out and anchored in thestrakearea.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A noticeably taller tailfin allows the pilot to retain control at higher angles of attack, assisted by the small strakes mounted along each air intake.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The main deck was protected by astrakeof armour that ran the full length of the ship.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The upper armour belt was in two strakes, the lower 120 mm thick and the upper 80mm in.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Strakehas also served on the boards of four banks.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.To ease the hauling of the nets, the strakes were removed during fishing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The vortex lift effect is increased by leading edge extensions, known as strakes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The strakes were enclosed by transverse bulkheads of the same thickness.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The central battery was protected by 8 in of armor plate in the lowerstrake, and 6 in of armor in the upperstrake.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In conjunction the strakes provided cool air to the rear-mounted side radiators, thus keeping the engine from overheating.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The sheerstrakeis oak, 2.5in cm by convert8.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.From the hog, the garboard, bottom, bilge, topside and sheer strakes are planked up, held together along their lands by copper rivets.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Historically, these had to be shaped by carving from an especially thick plank of wood (known as a shortstrakeor plank).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They had full lapstrake planking covering the sides, generally starting from the bilge strakes, and double-clenched iron nails for plank fastenings.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, the strakes were found to be unnecessary, and would have been ineffective at high lunar return reentry speeds.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The deck-beams, the stringers, the garboard-strake, the triple-expansion engine and other parts, have particular functions, and their characters are correspondingly distinct.
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