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Lucius Fairchild was an American politician. He was born in 1831 and died in 1896. He was a Republican Governor of Wisconsin from 1865 until 1871. He was US Consul at Liverpool from 1873 until 1878, Consul-General in Paris from 1878 until 1880, and US Minister to Spain from 1880 until 1882.
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Ashley Lyn Cafagna is an American actress and fashion model. She was born in 1983 at Iowa City, Iowa. She played 'Liz Miller' in the 1990's television series 'Saved By The Bell' and 'Kimberly Fairchild' in the 1990's television soap-opera 'The Bold and The Beautiful'.
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Carole Landis was an American actress. She was born in 1919 at Fairchild, Wisconsin and died in 1948, comitting suicide.
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Morgan Fairchild is an American actress. She was born in 1950 at Dallas, Texas.
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Armalite is a series of lightweight, high-velocity automatic rifles of various calibres manufactured by a division of the Fairchild Engine and Airplane Company.
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The first IC DC amplifier was the 709, introduced by Fairchild in the mid 1960s. The 709 by today's standard has many shortcomings, and a whole family of amplifiers has been produced. The commonest is the 741 which has been described as the Universal Component. A DC amplifier chip in its simplest form has just six connections. The positive supply, negative supply and the output are obvious. The amplifier has two inputs. These are known, respectively, as the non inverting and the inverting inputs. The amplifier amplifies the voltage between the two inputs. Let us assume, therefore, that the input is connected to 0V and an input signal applied to the +ve input. It will be found that the output moves in the same sense as the output. If we reverse the input connections, and connect the signal to the input, and the +ve input to 0V, the output will move in the opposite sense to the input. The terms 'inverting' and 'non inverting' thus refer to the sense of the inputs with respect to the resulting output. DC amplifiers are characterised by very high gains; 200,000 being typical for the common 741. Normally supplies of a 15V are used, so an input voltage of less than 1mV will cause the output to saturate. In practice, all DC amplifiers are invariably used with negative feedback which, in conjunction with high gains, gives very predictable results.
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The Fairchild A-10/OA-10 (Thunderbolt II) is a single-seater American close air support aircraft first deployed in 1976. The A-10 is powered by two General Electric TF34-GE-100 turbofans providing a top speed of 420 mph and a range of 800 miles. It carries an armament of one 30 mm GAU-8/A seven-barrel Gatling gun; up to 7,200 kilograms of mixed ordnance on eight under-wing and three under-fuselage pylon stations, including 225 kilograms of retarded bombs, 900 kilograms of general-purpose bombs, incendiary and Rockeye II cluster bombs, combined effects munitions, Maverick missiles and laser-guided/electro-optically guided bombs; infrared countermeasure flares; electronic countermeasure chaff; jammer pods; 2.75-inch rockets; illumination flares and AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles.
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The Fairchild Hiller AU-23 Peacemaker is a Swiss-designed, American counter-insurgency STOL warplane with secondary light transport capability that entered service in 1968. The AU-23 carries a minimum crew of one, and optionally a co-pilot and up to ten passengers of freight in the cabin. The AU-23 is powered by a Garrett TPE331-1-101F turboprop providing a top speed of 280 kmh and a range of 898 km. Armaments consist of one 20 mm General Electric M197 rotary three-barrel cannon or two 7.62 mm General Electric GAU-2B/A Minigun six-barrelled machine-guns on an optional pintle mounting in a cabin door, in addition up to 700 lbs of disposable stores can be carried on four under-wing hard points.
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The Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Maryland. The Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation was formed in 1936 to acquire the aeroplane and aero-engine manufacturing subsidiaries of the Fairchild Aviation Corporation.
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The Fairchild 340 is a joint Swedish (SAAB) and American regional airliner and corporate transport aircraft, which entered service in 1984. It can carry 39 passengers at a cruising speed of 300 mph to a range of 1475 km.
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