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Перевод: Vulcan

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1. Its brick engine house is now the centrepiece of an industrial museum, containing four large beam engines built by the local firm Gimsons, who opened their Vulcan Works in 1842 to build light machinery for Leicester's important footwear industry.
2. The trials, tribulations (as when Pan Am, TWS and American Airlines all cancelled their Concorde orders on the day the Lockheed SST was announced) and the triumphs of the design, development and early flight testing are shown in some detail - including air-to-air footage of such one-offs as the BAC 221 test vehicle and the Olympus-engined Vulcan.
3. Last night experts were trying to find the cause of the leak, in an out-of-service well at Conoco's Vulcan field, 40 miles north-east of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
4. At lower powers, the Vulcan operates a range of advanced ultraviolet laser systems for research in photo-chemistry, atomic physics and semi-conductor processing.
5. Vulcan, by the way, is supposed to have forged the breastplate of Hercules and the shield of Achilles as well as the arrows of Apollo and Diana.
6. Such pieces as Henry Nelson's "A New Poem on the Ancient and Loyal Society of Journey-Men Taylors", "Vulcan's Speech" by an anonymous blacksmith, or "The Taylors answer to Vulcan's speech", are all from Dublin around 1725.
7. To the Greeks, Vulcano was known as Hiera, the chimney of the forge of Hephaestus, God of Fire, but it was the Roman God of fire, Vulcan, blacksmith to the Gods, whose name stuck.
8. A Concorde tug was the brainchild of PC Bob Gilbert based at Maidstone, Kent who also happens to be a member of the Vulcan Association.
9. Vulcan is probably the most powerful laser in Europe, and may be the most versatile high-power laser in the world.
10. In the RAF's first attack on the runway at Port Stanley, carried out by a Vulcan V-bomber which flew from Ascension Island, only one of the 21 bombs dropped hit the runway.
11. Though Biggin was ever a fighter station, a second theme for the 1992 Air Fair is "Bombers", with Diamond Lil making another appearance, along with Sally B , the BBMF Lancaster, BAe's Mosquito, the Vulcan and a Tornado.
12. Workers will not be allowed back on the out-of-service Vulcan II well in Conoco's Vulcan field until the area is completely clear of gas.