RTC RIDE-public transit service for the greater Reno/Sparks community (formerly CitiFare). RTC RAPID-faster transit service on Virginia Street from downtown Reno to Meadowood Mall. Get the RTC RAPID brochure for more information.
A backplane is a group of electrical connectors in parallel with each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors, forming a computer bus. It is used as a backbone to connect several printed circuit boards together to make up a complete computer system. Backplanes commonly use a printed circuit board, but wire-wrapped backplanes have also been used in minicomputers and high-reliability applications.
A gurney flap shown on the underside of a Newman airfoil (from NASA Technical Memorandum 4071). The Gurney Flap (or wickerbill) is a small tab projecting from the trailing edge of a wing. Typically it is set at a right angle to the pressure side surface of the airfoil, and projects 1% to 2% of the wing chord. This trailing edge device can improve the performance of a simple airfoil to nearly the same level as a complex high-performance design.