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"Ruxandra Dumitrescu (born April 20, 1977) is a retired volleyball player born in Galați, Romania. She competed with the Romania women's national volleyball team at the 1994 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Brazil. She is a naturalized Greek citizen, and competed with the Greece women's national volleyball team from Athens 2004 Olympic Games until 2009. She is 186 cm tall. Dumitrescu played on club level with Dacia Pitesti 1994-1997. In her career with Vrilissia Athens Team (1997-2003), she won one championship, three Greek cups, and a bronze medal in European Cup and with Panathinaikos women's volleyball team (2003–10), winning six championships, five cups, and reached the 2009 final of the CEV Women's Challenge Cup. Her shirt number (9) was retired by the club in her honour. She was voted Most Valuable Player of the Greek championship in 2009 and Most Valuable Player of the Greek Cup Final Four twice, in 2008 and 2009. She is a devoted fan of Panathinaikos A.O. and in 2012 she was a candidate with the Panathinaikos Movement. She was married to Alexandros Nikolaidis and they have a son named Filippos. ==ReferencesSources== * Rouxi Doumitreskou * contra.gr Category:1977 births Category:Panathinaikos Women's Volleyball players Category:Greek people of Romanian descent Category:Greek women's volleyball players Category:Romanian women's volleyball players Category:Romanian expatriates in Greece Category:Living people "
" The TSHD Sospan Dau is a Dutch trailing suction hopper dredger owned by Sosban BV. The vessel has worked on dredging projects, including offshore aggregates, port maintenance, land reclamation, coastal defense and beach replenishment. The name Sospan Dau is Welsh and originates from Sosban Fach and Llanelli's tin plating industry, Sospan being the Welsh for Saucepan and Dau being Welsh for Two as the ship is a successor to the original Sospan. == Equipment == The ship has a traditional twin propeller stern and bow thruster for manoeuvering and like most trailing dredgers, includes bottom doors for dumping, a dredge engine, a jet water engine, a degassing installation, a suction pipe and associated pipelines and valves. Unique to most dredgers however, is a very large bulbous bow and spud pole for more efficient use of the dredge pump and heading/position keeping during beaching. == Projects == In 2014 & 2015 the Sospan Dau created the Cowes Harbour breakwater.http://www.cowesharbourcommission.co.uk/content/S635513075631866068/The_Perfect_Project_IHS_Dredging_and_Port_Construction.pdf ==References * http://www.dredgingtoday.com/2013/04/18/video-dredger-sospan-dau-at-work-uk/ Category:Dredgers Category:Service vessels of the United Kingdom Category:Papendrecht "
" The Midwest Zodiac Talon-Turbine is an American helicopter that was designed and produced by Midwest Engineering & Design of Overland Park, Kansas. When it was available the aircraft was supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction, but the plans are no longer advertised for sale.Purdy, Don: AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition, page 326. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. ==Design and development== The Zodiac Talon-Turbine was designed to comply with the US Experimental - Amateur-built aircraft rules. It features a single diameter two-bladed main rotor, a two-bladed tail rotor, a two-seats-in side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit with a bubble canopy, and skid-type landing gear. The acceptable power range is and the standard engine used is a Sunstrand turboshaft powerplant. Rotor dynamic components can be sourced from commercially produced products for other helicopter models, including the Hughes 300, Robinson R22 and Rotorway Exec. The aircraft fuselage is made from a combination of steel, aluminum and composite material. The aircraft has an empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of the payload for crew and baggage is . The cabin width is . The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the plans as 1100 hours. ==Operational history== By 1998 the company reported that 400 sets of plans had been sold and 15 aircraft were completed and flying. The prototype was reported to have 1200 hours on it flying overseas in the agricultural aircraft role. By March 2015 no examples had been registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration. ==Specifications (Zodiac Talon-Turbine) See also== *List of rotorcraft ==References== Zodiac Talon-Turbine Category:1990s United States sport aircraft Category:1990s United States helicopters Category:Homebuilt aircraft Category:Single-turbine helicopters "