Skate shoe Skate shoe Skate shoes or skateboard shoes are a type of footwear specifically designed and manufactured for use in skateboarding. While numerous non-skaters choose to wear skate shoes, the design of the skate shoe includes many features designed especially for use in skateboarding, including a vulcanized rubber or polyurethane sole with minimal tread pattern or no pattern, a composition leather or suede upper, and double or triple stitching to extend the life of the upper material. A low, padded tongue is often included for comfort. Skate shoe companies have integrated a number of special features into their shoes. These innovations
Helicopter bucket and accepted as a generic term. In the United States, this type of bucket is officially referred to as a "helibucket". The trademarked "Bambi Bucket" is also commonly used informally by firefighting crews to describe buckets developed by other manufacturers. Helicopter bucket A helicopter bucket is a specialised bucket suspended on a cable carried by a helicopter to deliver water for aerial firefighting. Each bucket has a release valve on the bottom which is controlled by the helicopter crew. When the helicopter is in position, the crew releases the water to extinguish or suppress the fire below. Each release of