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JNR Class C53. The Class C53 (C53形) is a type of 4-6-2 steam locomotive built in Japan from 1928 to 1929 designed by Hideo Shima and built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company Kisha Seizo and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Hitachi . A total of 97 Class C53 locomotives were built they operated until all 97 were retired in 1950.
8 × 3 in (76 mm)/70 caliber guns. 4 × Weapon Alpha ASW rocket launcher. 1 × ASROC octuple launcher. 8 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes. The second USS Norfolk (DL-1) was the first destroyer leader of the United States Navy. Originally projected as a hunter-killer cruiser, she was in service until 1970, and was scrapped in 1974.
The first Cropmaster YA-1 conversions shared the wooden empennage and fabric-covered aft fuselage of the CA-6 Wackett. The Yeoman 175 was a one-off test-bed to check the characteristics of the new all-metal empennage. The proposed YA-1B Cropmaster featured a tricycle undercarriage, but was never produced. The proposed Cropmaster 300.
Design study. Primary user. United States Air Force (projected) Number built. None. Developed from. CL-1170 [1] The Lockheed CL-1201 was a design study by Lockheed for a giant 6,000 ton nuclear-powered transport aircraft in the late 1960s. One envisioned use of the concept was as an airborne aircraft carrier.
Streamliner. A streamliner is a vehicle incorporating streamlining in a shape providing reduced air resistance. The term is applied to high-speed railway trainsets of the 1930s to 1950s, and to their successor "bullet trains". Less commonly, the term is applied to fully faired upright and recumbent bicycles.
Used by Heller for model ships, and proposed by the Japanese to supersede 1:144 scale trains. Models which are commonly made in scale at 1:150 are commercial airliners - such as the Airbus A320, Boeing 777 all the way to the jumbo jets - the Airbus A380 & Boeing 747. [8] 1:148: 2.059 mm: Model railways (British N) British N model railroad scale ...
C53. C53 or C-53 may refer to: ARM General Felipe Xicoténcatl (C53), an Admirable -class minesweeper of the Mexican Navy. Caldwell 53, a lenticular galaxy. CDK5RAP3, a gene encoding CDK5 regulatory subunit-associated protein 3. Cervical cancer. Douglas C-53 Skytrooper, an American military aircraft. GER Class C53, a British tram engine class.
The Class C55 (C55形) is a type of 4-6-2 steam locomotive built in Japan from 1935 to 1937. A total of 62 Class C55 locomotives were built and designed by Hideo Shima. [1] Nine were supplied to the Taiwan Government Railway, where they became class CT250, while 21 locomotives numbered C55 20 - C55 40 were streamlined.