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  • Oh BTW, Remington gets in the AR business with DPMS and Bushmaster, and even acquires the formely Magpul MASADA, and Ruger answers with its piston-driven SR-556.

    On Tracking and Losing Game 2009

  • (Actually, right now, the LMT, POF and Ruger piston-driven ARs cost about the same - $2,000.00)

    On Tracking and Losing Game 2009

  • Oh BTW, Remington gets in the AR business with DPMS and Bushmaster, and even acquires the formely Magpul MASADA, and Ruger answers with its piston-driven SR-556.

    On Tracking and Losing Game 2009

  • “Gotta love the classics, buddy,” Sam says, extending a plastic packet with his piston-driven arm.

    365 tomorrows » 2010 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010

  • Although Avoid has clocked up more than 30 hours of tests under the wing of the piston-driven propeller plane, it has yet to be attached to a jet airliner and flown at high altitudes near an active volcano.

    Volcanic ash cloud detector test flight raises hopes of clear skies for airlines 2011

  • (Actually, right now, the LMT, POF and Ruger piston-driven ARs cost about the same - $2,000.00)

    On Tracking and Losing Game 2009

  • It was, of course, as a result of the Great Ventilation and Telephone Riots srDt 3454 that all mechanical or electrical or quantum-mechanical or hydraulic or even wind -, steam -, or piston-driven devices, are now required to have a certain legend emblazoned on them somewhere.

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on tail risk 2010

  • The piston-driven planes of those days, like the Lockheed Constellation and Douglas DC-7, were noisy and often ferociously bumpy.

    The Golden Age of Flight 2010

  • Nevertheless, the XB-19 proved the potential for huge piston-driven aircraft, as its wingspan was seventy feet more and its seventy-ton empty weight nearly twice that of the B-29 Superfortress.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

  • But the piston-driven planes of those days were noisy and often ferociously bumpy.

    Back to the Future 2010

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