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- adjective Without
propellers .
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The hope is that in the future propellerless, fish-like submarines could carry out a range of tasks, such as mapping oceans, surveying shipwrecks or sweeping for mines, with more agility and speed than current autonomous underwater vehicles AUVs controlled by propellers.
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Dr Tangorra said the team was now looking in even more detail at the bluegill sunfish to create propellerless AUVs.
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The distinctive swimming technique of a bony fish is being used to develop agile, propellerless submarines.
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So I guess by that theory, not a bacterium goes propellerless without God personally stepping in to do something about it.
George Coyne: 'Science Does Not Need God. Or Does It? - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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Boarding Doc’s newest aircraft — a propellerless flying wing powered by a combustible gas of the bronze man’s invention, capable of speeds of over 500 miles per hour and able to hover in mid-air like a gyrocopter — the team makes for the Kilimanjaro region to rescue their comrade and help the natives beat back the invasion.
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Boarding Doc’s newest aircraft — a propellerless flying wing powered by a combustible gas of the bronze man’s invention, capable of speeds of over 500 miles per hour and able to hover in mid-air like a gyrocopter — the team makes for the Kilimanjaro region to rescue their comrade and help the natives beat back the invasion.
Archive 2010-04-04 2010
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