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I've gotten it too and I actually know the C-W equations and the difference between form and area drag since I earned my MSE in aerospace engineering.
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I'm taking some classes from L C-W in march at my LQS and I am really looking forward to it!
Journal Quilt Week 8, and lots more katelnorth 2008
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Am trying to convince Princess C-W that she would like a feature wall in her room but she 'can't make up' her mind which is nearly-teenager speak for not really but I don't want to say.
a bird in the hand (or something - Sunday Stash but different) Katy 2009
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C-W will be sooooo jealous that you have a finger 'tache.
an afternoon of OUCH! Katy 2009
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C-W exited the industry when jet aircraft quickly supplanted these final iterations of the piston-engine airplane.
Lean Thinking James P. Womack 2003
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Matt fired high and the actinic blast from her C-W blinded me.
Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998
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About fifteen minutes before that time compare your watch with your chronometer to get the C-W.
Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919
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Latitude 38° 48 'N, Longitude 70° 46' W. W. of morning sight 8h-15m-01s A.M. C-W.3h-56m-32s.
Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919
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If, in finding C-W, C is less than W, add 12 hours to C, subtracting same after CT is secured.
Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919
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First, because constant moving of the hands will have an injurious effect on the works of the watch, and second, because, by not changing the watch, the C-W remains approximately the same, and thus a good check can be kept on both the watch and the chronometer as well as on the navigator's figures in reckoning the times of his various sights.
Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919
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